St. Patrick's Day

TJ had a day off on St. Patrick's Day so we decided to take Koe to a park. It was little warmer that week and I totally miss the warm weather! Koe was born in Winter so he hasn't really had a chance to go play in a park and run around...he didn't really know what to do there...just exploring.

　

お久しぶりです。いったんブログをさぼるとまた始めるのがちょっと面倒臭いんです。でもがんばります。

この日はちょっとした祭日だったので家族で公園に。冬に産まれたベビーの光ちゃんはまだ公園で遊ぶ事を知りません。ちょっと歩いて探検です。

Daddy and Koe...don't they look alike??

親子そっくり。

He actually like to swing I promise...he is so not camera friendly sometimes...

ブランコも無表情。結構楽しんでるのに、カメラには全然笑顔をみせない。

"What are these??" He discovered sand. He couldn't get enough of it!

It was a learning experience for me......not to interfere his fun with my fear of animal poop, or getting sand everywhere in his mouth, closes, car, house and etc...I had fun playing outside as a kid, and I want him to like playing outside too...

As a mom, sometimes I feel like, "Koe is not doing much here at a park, so let's go home and relax..." but I remember my mom would let us play until we were ready to go home...which took us hours to get to that point. I'm glad she did it for us. She didn't drive back then so she took 4 of us by her bike, bus, or a train....so we can explore many different parks instead of a boring same small park everyday...She always went that extra mile for us...I can't believe she did that for us. That's a lot of work!

So I want Koe to have fun too...I know this is just a common sense to a lot of moms out there, but I am kind of a new mom, and learning to put Koe's interest first than mine...it's harder than it seems...

砂を発見。ずーっと遊んでました。私は砂場でよく犬猫ウンチに出くわしてたのでちょっと不安。案の定すぐ横に発見。ちょっと離してまた遊ぶ。でも自分が気持ち悪いからって子供の楽しさを奪ったらアカンなぁ、って最近よく思う。もう砂だらけになって靴にも砂が入って、いつもやったら車が砂だらけになるとか、食べてしまうとかもう神経質になってしまうけど、光ちゃんはもう小さい赤ん坊じゃないんだと思うと、子供らしく遊ぶ事を学んで欲しいと願います。

小さい頃、よくお母さんがいつも同じ公園やったらつまんないからといってわざわざ遠い浜寺公園とかもっと遠い公園に４人連れて、バス、電車にのって連れて行ってくれたのを思い出しました。しかも何時間も疲れるまで遊ばせてくれた。今新米のママになってそれがどれだけしんどいか分かる。よく、今家の片付けできる、ゆっくりしたい、教会の責任で誰々さんにメールせなアカンとか考えて帰りたくなるけど、光ちゃんの事を一番に考えてあげる事を学んでいる私です。たぶん、沢山のママにとったら簡単な事かもしれんけど、ママ業１年目の私には学びの機会です。

On Daddy's shoulder...Hello, World!

肩車、世界が広がる。

Here are some pictures of Koe's everyday fun.

Mommy, look at me

おうちに帰っていつものお遊び。

いない、いない、ばあ。

Where's Ko-Ko??

picka-boo!

I heart sugar...

あっ、お砂糖のあるドアが開いてる！ラッキー。

Just kidd'n mom! I'm not doing anything!...

見つかった。