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Awesome kimono PJs from Ma Bella baby designs - how cute are they! You should see her ninja shirt.

Friends in Town

Martin and Ruth are in town - hurray. They are doing some skiing in Hakuba and Hokkaido and in between hanging out with us. This weekend we visited Hakone, we stayed in a traditional ryokan where we slept on the tatami, had our 10 course meal served in our room and used the onsen (hot springs). We did the train, cable car, ropeway over sulphur mines, pirate ship and bus, visited an Edo Checkpoint museum and open air sculpture park.

We had great fun - though may have put Martin and Ruth off ever having children - whoops!

Focus

That 70s Night...

Remember this, short and sweet but brings back some memories!

Still on the subject of eating

Just been to a "how to motivate your todler" talk - very interesting. Glad I went as it turns out we have been doing this parenting thing ALL WRONG. Isla was in childcare in the church it was at, when I got there to pick her up they said:

"Oh we love Isla, she is just crazy, and she ate ALL her own snacks, then had some of everyone elses, we have never seen a kid her size eat so much". Thats my girl! On the way home she ate a whole onigiri and passed out - too much playing or too much eating - who knows!

Bento

It was Isla's first day back at daycare yesterday. All the other kids have such lovely bento boxes I decided to make a special effort - how pretty is this? She has a cheese and ham muffin, peas (her favourite!), omelette, cucumber, apples, strawberries and a yoghurt. She was there for 4 hours and ate it all!

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