Monday, October 13, 2014

Scrapbook Day October 2014, a Tuesday

Tomorrow will be scrapbook day, so I thought since I am on the computer tonight I would go ahead and update as I know what our plans are for tomorrow! It is Tuesday, which means sitter day/break for mama day. After school in the morning, the kids will play with the sitter while I have a little mama time. I will be enjoying lunch with my running group for a birthday in our group. We have yet to decide the place, but knowing Tokyo the food will be delicious. At 21 weeks preggers, I am still running. Not as much as I want, but about 3 times a week and 3 miles at a time. I am also trying to walk more for exercise. My goal was to run until my friend ran the Osaka marathon as we were supposed to be training together until I found out I was pregnant. Oops. No marathon for me this year. A typhoon is headed this way as we speak. Thankfully it will come during the middle of the night, so our Tuesday activities can remain the same, a fairly relaxing day at home for all of us. These kids are growing up way too fast. I realized recently that the K Man always calls Miss M by her actual name, rather than what he used to call her (Gakko). That makes me sad. Maybe baby #3 will call her the same in the beginning and bring back those fond memories for me. We took them shopping today for fall/winter clothes and just could not believe how grown up Miss M looks with her little knee socks, skirts and trendy shirts. All she needs is some black boots and she will fit in Tokyo well. We are still plugging through homeschool. For the most part, we have good days with it, but other days can be rather tricky. It is hard for me at times as a task oriented person because I want to make learning fun for her and at the same time I want to get through our work. This balance for me is tricky to find, but with prayer and discernment I hope I can figure that out. I think at times it will always feel new because Miss M is constantly changing. But I can say we do have a routine now with our days and seem to know what to expect and when we will do what. We dropped ballet so currently Miss M is doing sports class, swimming and piano. However, in November we will switch from swimming to soccer. She was in a class with younger kids for swimming and I wanted to put her in a class where she was with kids more her age. Her dear friend does soccer so we were able to get in that instead. Plus with soccer, she is moving a lot and swimming she seemed to wait on other kids a lot in the pool to take their turn. We thought for swimming we would take her to some local indoor pools on the weekend to build her confidence in that area. She seems to enjoy soccer when she plays it on her own so I think she will really enjoy this. The K Man is doing sports class and music class. He LOVES his sports class teacher, to the point he gets jealous when the teacher plays with other kids. I think the teacher favors the K Man because the K Man likes to be rough, wrestle and tumble around where as most of the other children are quite hesitant. He also has a crush on a music teacher and cries if he does not get to hold her hand for the intro and ending songs. Not sure what we will do with him when he is 16. He is already a charmer at age 3. The husband and I are doing well...just working, working, and working. And for me getting bigger and bigger. I feel pretty good but am very tired this time around. It is a lot different having a baby at 37 verses 31. Here are some cute recent pics of the kids. Enjoy.

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