Rain, rain, don't go away. Little Shuma wants to play! Yup, the kid loves rain, and who am I to keep him out of it? Thankfully his grandma sent him a raincoat a few months back, so he can keep d...
Grandma sent this stripey number from Canada, and even though it's meant for the summer Shuma's already wearing it. A long-sleeved onsie and skinny pants add warmth without distracting from...
Our second day was pretty uneventful, so I'll take this opportunity to show our hotel. We stayed in Kalim, a tiny bay just north of Patong, at Kalim Resort, and as I said in the last post the &q...
Yes, that's right, day one of a vacation we took a month and a half ago. I'm going to make you slog through several posts about the trip, because I took hundreds of pictures and if I post t...
Here's a t-shirt Grandma sent from Canada with a very gender-stereotyped message. It is also true, and also very colourful so I'm not complaining. You could find many similar things in Japa...
I couldn't let spring arrive without a few cherry blossom pictures, and here they are. Really just a few this year, at least of the flowers still on the trees. Thanks to plenty of wind and rain,...
Although we didn't do anything special for Easter at home this year (I can barely remember what my family does- I think it involves ham maybe?) Shuma got to participate in two Easter egg hunts. ...
Today Shuma and I went to the Inokashira Park Zoo with one of our playgroups. It was his first visit to a zoo, and my first time at the main section of this particular one- the zoo is actually spli...
Here is Shuma modelling his various beach fashions in Thailand earlier this month. First we have a simple look consisting of a Nemo-adorned swim diaper paired with a drawstring hat. The ripped look i...
Yesterday Shuma turned one and a half, and I just realized I'm overdue for a progress report. So I thought I'd list his recent developments and add a bunch of pictures that I haven't g...
This Resort Wear edition of Fashion Show features Shuma on location in Phuket. He wears an outfit that announces "I am on vacation in Thailand!" consisting of a nifty hat, a Thai fisherman&...
We're leaving for a family trip tonight, and Shuma's about to undergo a magical transformation- from snowsuit to sunglasses in just four days! Yup, on Wednesday (a leap day!) we had the big...
I thought I had more time to figure this all out. My son is barely one year and five months old, and at this age he and his peers are a long way from noticing that some people look different. Surely ...
This entire outfit comes from Shuma's gramma. OK, at least half of his clothes come from gramma, and I'm really grateful because I really prefer Canadian clothes for this age. Not that Japa...
Yes, it's the middle of February, so it seems a little late to be blogging about our new year's holidays, but they tend to drag it out here (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to i...
I shouldn't have expected much, considering what an awful news site Japan Today is, but I was amazed at how bad an article called "How foreigners’ daily lives change when they live in Japan...
And after a snowy day comes a sick day, with the exertion of chasing around a toddler out in the cold turning a mild cold into a major one. Or that's what I'm telling myself: somehow sickne...
Today we woke up to snow! Not much of it, and it took a while to pile up enough to justify venturing out into the cold, but eventually we got out there and enjoyed it. It's not his first time se...
Here's a cute little romper adorned with an Engrish phrase and what appear to be Smarties. But it turns out they're not Smarties at all. When Hideaki asked why Shuma's outfit said &quo...
You've probably noticed things are a little different around here, and I thought I owed a bit of an explanation. I've been wanting to change both the name and the look of my blog for years,...
Here is this year's nengajo (new year's post card), starring Shuma as this year's juunishi (zodiac animal), the dragon. He may not look particularly dragony but we were busy at the end...
Christmas has come and gone, way too fast as usual but it was good while it lasted. Shuma was a good boy so his stocking was full of presents from Santa and the tree was surrounded by presents from h...
Photo dump warning: I'm going to post all the pictures from this summer that didn't get posts of their own, not because they were no good but because I was too busy, or lazy, or some combin...
It's late as usual, but the Christmas spirit has finally arrived at our home, mostly thanks to my mom. Thanks, mom! First she sent some Christmas colours for Shuma to wear, above. Next came the ...
I found the perfect way to get Shuma to hold still for a Fashion Show picture: stick him in one of the fold-down baby seats found in public restroom stalls. OK, there must be a name for those. Or may...
Well, it's about time I finished posting about our trip to Canada this summer (the first parts of the trip were blogged here and here). We've been back for over five months and it still fee...
A few months back we had a nice day out that I never got around to sharing, so before I completely forget: On a nice day in early October we went to Tokyo Midtown in search of the baby swing rumoured...
Jesus christ, I just wrote a long ranty post about how tired and sick and uninspired I've been, and then I went and accidentally deleted it. My first post in over three weeks, and it's gone...
Listen upeverybody, my son has something to say:
This outfit doesn't look very fancy, but that is the most expensive top I've ever bought for Shuma. We're not talking about designer prices or anything, but when you're used to bu...
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