Hiroko's Hitokoto

Each kid had a pair of new shoes purchased today.

Sharing a hot dog.

 Lemon ginger for myself Chocolate banana for boy

He requested to paint it on his wrist.

Went to stay at Masami jiji and Kazuko babas for long weekend. Mo found Masa's old skateboard, papa on a farm, using a little machine we borrowed from HONKE to plow. Photos here . A couple of videos: Skateboarding Mo Papa plowing the farm

Happy birthday to Kevin! He and Kaito joined dinner at Ruigi's for dinner.  Photos here .

It was a first sushi after coming back from NY. Ah, the real sushi...!

 Purchase in NY last month. Pretty good coffee.

Meeting with Ton at The City Bakery after kimono practice.

Kimono contest coming up in Oct., and he is my model for boy kimono. I have to dress him up in 8 min, on stage...

Turret, a car commonly used at Tsukiji Fish Market, is trade mark of this cafe C. Pretty good coffee.

A duck specialized restaurant in Tsukiji called Kamosho . They have dinner course during lunch time without 10% service charge, given you make reservation in advance. Mmm, I want to try...

My Mediterranean fix from Papagaya Deli.

Annual local shrine festival kids love. Mo pulled drum float and Ton carried portable shrine. This time, they had a few friends to go around with. It was hot though not so bad. Kids had fun with snacks on breaks and play area after the festival. Photos here .

Went to the old neighborhood for the parade. Kids both saw their friends, Mo enjoyed pulling/drumming drum car and Ton carrying portable shrine. They got snacks at each break, played some games after the parade. Ton even made trade with other kids and got what she wanted. She's got skills...

Lunch with a friend used to work with, catching up.

An old, sad looking peach turned into a sweet & sour chicken. Not bad.

Yearly check up today. Expected massive waiting hours, turned out, it went very quickly, finished less than 2 hours. It must be because of the typhoon weather many people cancelled coming in today. So, I went to have brunch about 3 blocks away from the hospital called Bread, Espresso, &. Their panini is good.

He was not interested doing math at all, but coloring part of the work books I bought in US. I don't know the most of names of those characters from Star Wars, I can't help him very much...

It was a pretty bad weather today. Typhoon, lots of rain, sometimes really stormy. Ton went to abacus class, Mo and I waited for her at The City Bakery, anticipating her to come back safe and dry. She was fine as rain stopped for a bit while she was walking back to the cafe. We just took taxi back home before it started stormy again.

Good coffee in front of bus stop.

Today was a day off for Mo because he went to kindergarten last Saturday. Papa called for lunch so we went to his office first, then onto Royal Host for lunch.

Tai was in Tokyo with his mom, staying at American Club, so we went to see him again. He was on tight schedule of meeting his friends one after another, and Mo and Ton wanted to play with him some more. Oh well, we'll see him again either here or in NY.

Went by Farmer's Market in Aoyama before taiko practice. Kids had pizza from food truck, and Mo liked ginger ale from Brooklyn Ribbon Fries .

My watch stopped 2 days before leaving NY, and I came to replace battery at watch shop in Shibuya.