ueno zoo

It was ueno zoo anniversary last sunday, so it was open for free. We plan to go together, unfortunately, sugar was having fever, we thought of canceal the trip, but we promised to zi. So we decided: daddy will go with zi and I will stay home with sugar. These are the photos taken by daddy;) They did not manage to see all the animals in the zoo, as zi has fallen asleep, and daddy need to carry him all the way from zoo to train station, and only noticed zi lost one of his 'tomica' shoe when they got in the train. Daddy ostukaresama;) I have never been to any zoo in Japan, I will go one day...maybe this coming golden week (midori day, ueno zoo will be open for free again)....this time we go together, 4 of us;)

hirakana

Zi is reading Japanese 'hirakana'. He learn hirakana at nursery, and now he likes to read those hirakana which was written on his book, catalog, flyer, and also his school's print out. Sometimes he read them without knowing the meaning, but just to read. Now he sings more Japanese song, and we can tell what is he singing..(the japanese word). He is improving...remember when he was 2++, he still cannot speak a proper sentence, we were worried, he will have problem at school, as we try to speak chinese at home, so that he can learn chinese. We were worried he cannot communicate with other kids, and also teacher. But teacher said he can understand their instruction, just he seldome speak:(
Now, he speaks bahasa campur at home (chinese+japanese+english)....
At school, he speaks only Japanese or also bahasa campur??? interesting to know...but he can tell the different, as he told me 'japanese' is what teacher said at school.

hinamatsuri

Hinamatsuri is a celebration for girls in Japan. Zi made the dsiplay人形 at school;) Great!!Although we do not celebrate, since zi made it, and this year we have sugar, a girl!! ;) so we took some photos during hinamatsuri;)