So here we are on the land of Okinawa and it is spring break! Oh, how my life has changed... just 10 years ago my life had a completely different spin when it was spring break week!!
So I have both kids all week long by myself while Tommy is working crazy mad hours. Something about swimming quals, the gas chamber, flying in a C130 and helicopters. I was too tired to hear most of what he was saying!
Things that happened this week:
- Tried to move baby girl to her crib. After 2 1/2 days and approximately the same amount of hours of sleep, I declared it a massive failure and gave up.
- Wyatt pooped in the potty a few times, which means gifts, gifts, more gifts and "Games" which means going to American Village (oxymoron) and spending a boatload of Yen playing the Japanese video games and riding the Ferris Wheel, which is Wyatt's all-time favorite activity on the island. While we were there we went to Doctor Fish. I so wish I had taken a picture of this! It is basically a plastic pool like the little kiddos have that goes for about $1.99 at Walmart and filled with tiny fish. Then you pay 500 Yen (about $6) each and stick your feet in for 10 minutes and they eat the dead skin off your feet. I am dead serious! It tickles like crazy and I actually hated it but Wyatt thought it was the best thing since fruit rollups.
- Accidentally went to the beach the day BEFORE the water opened (they have jellyfish nets that go "out" during open seeason) so then it was just playing in the sand. Oops. That didn't go over too well.
- We went to a new park for playdate. It was fun and of course it had those crazy roller slides. Three of them actually! Wore him out running from slide to slide and doing all the Japanese play ground equipment - the kind that is borderline unsafe and would never go over in the States!
- Olivia got her 2 month check and her 5 vaccines! 2 oral and 3 shots in the thigh, which she took like a champ.
- We went on a little drive (me & the kiddos) and eventually found a great farmer's market that Jen had told me about. Wyatt helped me pick out a basket full of veggies all for 1200 yen ($15) but the Japanese man wasn't too impressed when we found that Wyatt had stashed a bag of red onions in Olivia's car seat. How do you explain in Japanese that you weren't trying to steal them? Well, you don't. You just pay and leave. :)
- Today I was supposed to host a "Water Play Day" in our yard, and I suppose I could have but it would have been in the rain... again. Instead we helped the kiddos make homemade playdough, which lasted all of about 10 minutes, but they still had fun!
A fun, busy week but I am ready for preschool to start back up next week!! Not sure what I am going to do after it lets out for the summer. Eek!
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The fishies eating your dead skin - I read about that and how they incorporate that into pedicures somewhere! I would have been grossed out too. Sounds like you had a great spring break! Love the farmers market!
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