We were blessed to have an elderly friend from our church stay with us on her way to and from her daughter's home in Kyushu. Tomoki loved Iwama-san!

He also loved Marie Inoue reading books to him. His eye is all puffy because he got a bug bite on his eyelid--yikes!

We are babysitting a friend's children twice a month. Isn't this little guy just precious! Their mommy is American and daddy is Japanese.

Here's Akihiro reading to the older siblings.

Cleaning out the tadpole/frog box and playing with the frogs!

We got some tadpoles at the pond in a local park and enjoyed watching them turn into frogs. Too bad one escaped one night and is on the loose in our house!

The daikon radishes that didn't get big enough or good enough to eat turned into beautiful white and yellow blooms--with the yellow Chinese cabbage blooms in the back.

Tomoki is all boy--loves to use Papa's screwdriver!

Here's a better picture of my tulips!