Looking through some snapshots from last October, I ran across these of Anthony pretending to be a package delivery man. The belt thing is his pretend hand-held computer for swiping barcodes on packages, and his nametag (made by Fumie) has a picture of a truck and "あんと" (anto -- his name in Japanese).

He does this kind of play a lot, sometimes moving the furniture around in the livingroom to create a delivery truck.

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A few minutes after putting up the previous post (Kyoto City Half Marathon) and writing how it was turning out to be a beautiful day, I was surprised to see that it was gloomy outside, with big fluffy hunks of snow drifting down.

Kyoto generally doesn't get much snow, despite the most-snow-in-60-years winter last year (which I wrote about a'plenty at the time: one, two, three, four, five). We've had almost no snow this year, except a light dusting while we were away on our New Year's trip, and another later in January.

It's been so mild this year that [...]
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Anthony takes a preschool "Jumping Gymnastics" class once a week, which is really little more than somewhat structured running around and burning off some energy. The kids have fun, and learn some great lessons (it's good to stretch, good to try your best, good to take turns, etc.).

Classes start with a bow and a short discussion as each kid introduces himself and answers the question of the day (such as "what's your favorite food?"), and then some running, stretching, and something special for the day (balance beam, jumprope, etc.).

Today's special thing is the Japanese equivalent [...]

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