Playing with Paris

There are two other girls on our floor, they are 8 and 12. But hey still play together better than the boys. 🙄 Maybe I’m a mean person, but I’m really don’t want Emma even playing with the boys, who are both 5. Neither will listen to me, and they don’t play nice or fair. Anyway, Emma and Paris (8), play together a lot. They get along pretty well. They color, play games, do puzzles, paint nails, paint water color, play with dolls...girl stuff. Sometimes Paris will come inside our house and play with Emma in her room. You should have heard the utter excitement when Paris got to come over the first time. You would have thought Emma had never had a friend over...but I guess it has been a while. Anyway, today they played most of the afternoon. I read my 6 year old book. I found a couple of good things, and this gem: 

Oh if they only knew! 

They found Emma’s dress up clothes. Elsa and Anna. We got the Elsa dress in CA, it’s way too big for Emma, but it fits Paris. 

Home again

Well Emma woke up with a fever again today, and threw up at 6am, so she stayed home again. I went to my PWOC breakfast since Steven was home, and ran a couple errands afterwards. When I came home Emma seemed fine, and has been fine the rest of the day. So hopefully she will get to go on her field trip tomorrow. Here are a couple pictures from today.

Wearing the new dress from Grandma Connie and Papa Mike. Although Emma says it’s just a long shirt.

Dressing up Rapunzel 

Putting on my glasses, making faces.

Sick summer days

There is something going around here, and I think Emma caught it. She woke up not feeling great on Monday, so I let her stay home instead of going to culture class. I had a meeting downstairs in our building, so I just left her upstairs watching tv. She was just fine, and when I came back up she seemed not very sick. But as is often the case with her, her fever spiked later in the afternoon at 101.1...so no school Tuesday either. Tuesday she actually felt fine most of the day, but I’m cautious because of her history of afternoon fevers. She did have a headache in the afternoon, but no fever. We thought she would be able to go back to school today, but she woke up before 6 and said her tummy was hurting...and then threw up. So no school today either. She is currently sleeping on the couch. But maybe since Daddy is home and on his I day I can get out of the house to my PWOC breakfast. Before, when he was gone, if she was sick like this we were just stuck. Oh how nice to have home home. 
She was awfully sleepy on Monday. 

She just fell asleep randomly...So you know she is not feeling good.

Yesterday singing on the bench...obviously feeling better.

Doesn’t look sick to me

Emma braided Polly’s hair! I was so impressed! No one even helped her!

Ice cream for lunch

It has been HOT here. Our temps haven’t hit 100 yet, but our heat indexes have! So when we’re out running errands, walking around main base with a heat index of 105, I got Emma an ice cream cone to keep her cool and happy as we walked. I mean, how many times do you have ice cream for lunch? It was a fun treat. The next day was her field trip to a science museum. Steven had planned to go, but ended up not being able to. So I went instead. It was fun-ish. Bus rides are not currently my favorite. And I somehow missed that we were supposed to bring our own lunch. So we found the little cafe inside...our choices were curry or ice cream. So...ice cream it was...again. I mean, how many times do you have ice cream for lunch???  Oh well. We ate when we got home, and rested the rest of the day...and today because I am still exhausted. 

Today Emma is pretending to be my waitress. She brought me my drink, then she took my order, which was a burger. Then she brought me a roll with thousand island, mayo and mustard. I let her taste it, she thinks it’s delicious. I asked for one with peanut butter. So she came back with another roll...with peanut butter, thousand island, mayo and mustard...and Parmesan cheese on top.. 🤦‍♀️ And now she is telling me that I can’t leave because she doesn’t have any more customers. I have got to find this girl some other kids to play with!

Emma next to the crab. Most of the info was in Japanese.

Lots of bugs!

Butterflies 

It’s of fun scienc-y things to play with.

Ice cream 

Mine. A brown rice cereal parfait..with some kind of maybe dried fruit, and a pomegranate vinegar at the bottom. 

Astronaut Emma!

Periodic table

Taking my order 

My burger, or booger, depending on how you pronounce it. 😉

Haircuts and doctor visit

Emma and I got our hair cut this week. It has been so hot even my ponytail was bothering me. We both feel much better, but we need to get Emma’s fixed. Hers is not straight. Mine was not a great cut either, I will probably fined a different person next time, but at least we are cooler! 

Today I went to Yokosuka , a naval base a couple hours away, to see an ENT. I have been having trouble sleeping/breathing, and it’s not allergies. Steven stayed with Emma and I went with my friend Shannon. We only made a couple wrong turns...Japanese people are so nice, they let you merge! Driving in basically Tokyo wasn’t so bad, just expensive tolls. It was so nice to get out, and we even took some time to shop at their HUGE NEX. (BX) It was what I imagined when people describe giant BXs...like a Walmart and JC Penny. We had A&W for lunch, and I may have had a milkshake. 😋 And bought a pound of strawberries for $8....we haven’t had any for a while.  

My appointment was fine. He put something up my nose and told me that while I have a deviated septum, it should not be causing me to not sleep. And my nasal passages are not swollen. He would do a CT scan to check for anything else, but I would have to wait for his replacement in mid Aug to do it. He thinks it’s either sleep apnea or my thyroid. So he recommended I ask my PCM here at Yokota to do a sleep study and check my thyroid levels. I was glad he listened, checked me out...and that I don’t have to keep going down there. I’m probably not going to get a CT scan if it’s not going to solve my problem. I think Emma and Daddy had a good, but long day. They went to Joyful Honda, a giant store, and looked at pets and tools. They got me some folders which Emma picked out, and the house was super clean when I got home! I unfortunately have no pictures from today, the only place I could see the ocean from was the room where the doctor looked up my nose. 😏 

Emma’s uneven haircut

We went to Don Quixote, another large Japanese store not good for sensory sensitive people. Emma tried on sunglasses. 

Baby chopsticks...I need these. 

Showa Park

Daddy’s lady got switched to Wednesday, so he had 3 days off this week. Today we went to Showa Park, a VERY large park in Japan, not far from us. Think Central Park/botanical garden. You have to pay to get in, but it is very well maintained. This is not the best time of year to go, because all the flowers have mostly died. But we paddle boated around a lake/pond, and found a pretty fun park to play at. There were also very few people there today. Japan’s schools are still on season...which is too bad because it was hot and humid today and it looked like they have a fabulous pool and splash pad. But it was nice to walk around and not be crowded. You can drive there, since it’s not too far, but we took the train. In fact, we walked to the train station from base. Steven did this with a friend this weekend, but I don’t think it was so hot...and he didn’t have a 5 year old with him. I don’t think we will walk that far again. But taking the train was fun. And Showa Park was fun. We ended up at Chili’s for dinner because they stopped traffic going over the flight line for a while because the fighter jets were headed back to Okinawa after the typhoon had gone. Long day, but good fun.

All ready! Thankfully she took off her jacket...and wore socks.

She was excited to have her on card for the train.

Riding the train. It wasn’t busy when we left, but it was when we came back.

Paddle boating. No life jackets. Emma got to sit in between us.

Which meant she got to drive. She kept saying that this was the first time she ever got to drive anything. Paddle boating was hard work for us, definitely a leg workout. Steven think they are made for shorter people. ;)

The fish and ducks kept coming up to us. I assume the Japanese feed them, but we didn’t.



They had a great playground. This was a giant bouncy thing.

Ready, set, bounce! 
She thought this was great! So did the other parents and kids.

Giant slide.

I went down it a couple times. Steven did it a lot with her. It’s fast!!!

Silliness

I’m posting real quick tonight since I’m headed to bed...but here are some silly pictures from our weekend:

This morning...making patterns out of fruit loops. Girl loves math!

Playing with Daddy

I was trying to be sneaky taking pictures 

Hugging his box

Rocking his box