Scrapbook Day - March 14, 2014

For this month, scrapbook day fell on a Friday, which is a relatively busy day for us. In the morning we go to music class for the K Man and Miss M does Japanese. After a quick bite with friends and a play at the Toyosu Gas Museum, we went home, re-packed bags, and biked to swimming lesson for Miss M. On this particular day, I was telling myself this would be the last swim lesson. I really want my kids to learn how to swim at a young age. In the big city, we do not have lots of access to public pools and they are not exposed to it as much as if they would be living in southern America with backyard pools or summers spent at a country club. After getting rid of Miss M's water warts, she was finally able to start swimming in December. However, recently I felt like it was too much and thought we could just take her to an indoor pool on the weekends as a special date with daddy. She was not really LOVING the swim class so I thought no harm done. Well, on this particular day, she broke through her shell with the teacher and other kids in the class (it takes her a bit to warm up to people). She came out of the class telling me how much fun she had and how much she liked it. FYI, I had not told her I was thinking of dropping it. So now I am back to square one, trying to discern how best to spend our time. My husband suggested I write everything down and see what our week looks like. Then he and I can talk through it, as I need to verbally process, and see what we need to let go, what we need to keep and how we need to readjust. We ended this particular Friday with curry dinner and family fun in the evening with daddy while Mama went to hot yoga. Here are some recent pics of the kids and their growth.