Category: Our Child

  • Video of Mayuki

    Mayuki is advertising Pentax cameras again. Once again, the videos were taken by Sonoe. Yes, this time it’s videos, because the camera in question has video built in. The video is also embedded in this entry, but the one on the Pentax site seems to be better quality, if a little slow to download and…

  • Say “Please”

    We all eat dinner together as a family, although Mayuki shows a variable amount of interest in the food on offer. I wouldn’t say that she’s picky, but what she decides to eat varies from day to day. Sometimes, she decides that she wants to be fed, and asks Yuriko or me for food. It’s…

  • More Photos of Mayuki

    Sonoe has taken some more photographs of Mayuki. These were taken a week or so ago, while I was working. As always, the text in is Japanese, but you can enjoy the pictures.

  • New Diary Entry

    After an excessively long silence, I’ve put a new diary entry online.

  • Too Busy

    As people have noticed, it’s a very long time since I wrote anything here. I’ve been too busy; as well as teaching and editing, I’ve been keeping Tamao going and writing a Japanese blog entry every day. So this has got squeezed out, sorry. We’re all fine. Mayuki is still happy and lively, and her…

  • Fukagawa

    Today we went on a family day trip to Fukagawa, a region of eastern Tokyo in the old working-class areas, the so-called Shitamachi. (Literally, “down town”, but that’s an appallingly bad translation.) The weather was relatively kind to us, and I took quite a few photographs. I even got Yuriko to take some so that…

  • New Year Holidays

    We went to Nagoya on the second, to spend a couple of nights with Yuriko’s parents and brother. Most importantly, of course, Mayuki got time with grandparents, and all those involved seemed to thoroughly enjoy it. Mayuki particularly enjoyed the slides in the park on the last day. I have some photographs, so I really…

  • End of the Year

    I’ve just written an enormous post for my Japanese blog looking back over the year, so this version is likely to be a bit smaller. The Japanese blog does tend to get prioritised over this one, I’m afraid. So, from a personal perspective, it was a good year. It was our first full year as…

  • Getting Better

    Mayuki seems to be getting better. Yesterday, she wasn’t at all lively when she woke up, but she quickly perked up, and by the end of the day she was more or less her old self. She refused to eat any of Yuriko’s udon at lunch time, but happily ate my spaghetti, while at dinner…

  • Mayuki Update

    Mayuki still wasn’t lively when she woke up yesterday, so Yuriko took her to the doctor. While there, she (Mayuki) threw up twice more, and the doctor diagnosed her with “vomiting and diarrhoea syndrome”. Well, yes… Anyway, he also provided treatment guidelines, which do seem to have worked. She hasn’t thrown up again, and she…