The Sweetest Little Girl

Reina was so sweet today. She is of course sweet everyday, but today was special.

Reina woke up with a cold. This meant she was actually clingy (a rare event these days). She didn't want to be put down.  Chris and I gave her some tylenol, which seemed to make her feel much better. She was back to her usual ways within 30minutes.  After I went for a bike ride and Reina took a nap at home with Chris, we went to visit some friends of my mom's, "Auntie" Jane and Karen.  We met them at a park and Reina was just beside herself with excitement about the park.  She kept signaling me to come with her, which is a new trick she developed this weekend. It is so special to be asked to come with her.  She does it to Chris too.  She also randomly gave me a kiss today. Like out of the blue, "hey mom, I think you're great." It was so sweet. And I'm really not that sentimental.  Then to end the day Reina and I met Staci and Emi on Lester to go trick-or-treating.  Reina was so sweet asking for candy and saying thank-you. She really is the sweetest little girl.  I just had to share that with the world.  Now Reina is tucked in bed, and went to sleep with no problems...as usual.  She is so good.

A Lazy Thursday

Typhoon Chamba got us out of work!  We went into TC-1 this morning which meant no kiddos at work.  So we dropped off Reina and went to our classrooms and got to work.  At about 9:30, the boss said we could go home!

Our last HOT October weekend (I think).  Reina out in the plastic tubs.

This is how Reina eats strawberries. 

Reina's new leggings!  Now if the weather would stay cold enough to wear them.

Out in the typhoon.  

The typhoon has been uneventful as usual. But we've managed to get a lot done around the house.  I managed to hem the spare-bedroom curtains (but please don't look closely) and we moved our new bookshelf up into our bedroom.  Its starting to feel like home....minus the rooster.

Last weekend, as I mentioned, we carved pumpkins with our neighbors. Reina loved the pumpkins.  She loved drawing all over them and she loved picking up the top to see the candle inside.  The neighbors were super sweet, and I hope we can spend more time with them in the future. They told us that Reina was "hima umare" (maybe!), which means she would be a young one in her grade.  The Japanese schools start in March/April, so Reina would be at the younger end of the spectrum of her class.  Reina would be in the same class as our neighbor (Nana-chan), if they go to the same school (which is a possibility). 

Mostly I am posting today because I have some pictures I want to share.  So I'll spare you the poor dialogue...and make sure to check the slideshow for the rest of the pictures.

Back on the Wagon

I have great news. We have internet.  I swear I tried to avoid going 3 LONG, FULL weeks without it, but sometimes you just can't get everything your way, at least this is what Chris tells me.

Naked and in her hat, playing at her table.

We moved in to our new house the weekend of October 1st.  We were able to save some money by doing a bit of the moving ourselves and have managed to get entirely unpacked the following week and weekend. All we have left is to hang pictures and get a few more furniture items.  Our walls are almost all cement, which is going to make picture hanging a pain, so I think Chris has decided we will wait until we buy a new drill when his dad comes and task him to that!


We met one of our neighbors. They are the other ones who recently built a new house, maybe about 6 months before us.  They are a family of four with 2 little girls, Ako, who is 4 and Nana, who is 2.  Reina is very interested in them.  They walk their dogs in the evening when we are sometimes on our patio, and we introduced ourselves and Megumi (the mom) told me how her girls love our pumpkin. So I bought them one last week and I'm thinking we'll have them over maybe tomorrow night to carve our pumpkins.

Next to the mango tree.

Speaking of plants....we have a garden!  We went to makeman and bought 2 - 3 of the cheapest veggies and figured we didn't have much to lose.  Its still warm here, and probably will be until late November, early December. We have some broccoli, green peppers, egg plant, onions....and a mango and mikan tree.  Hopefully we'll have something to show for all of them one day!  We also took a picture of Reina next to the young mango tree to see how much they grow.

The little garden.

Oh the rooster. If I could complain about one thing, it would be the rooster.  He lives (or perhaps there are two) across the street.  I am going to kill the rooster.  Last night I put my ear plugs in at 1:30.  AHHHHHH. I hate roosters. Ok. I'm done.

I am happy to be back on the internet. I missed reading all of my favorite Mama's blogs and talking with my and Chris' family.  How did we ever go without the internet!?