Yesterday when Anthony got home from preschool, he runs in and says "Daddy, Daddy, I want to build a computer." Now, I don't know where he got this idea about building a computer, but when Anthony says "I want to build...," it really means "I want you to build for me..." He's fully capable of building things by himself, as evidenced by the highway construction project from the other day, but when he actually pre-announces that he wants to build something, he's really telling me to do it.

I sort of thought the request was a bit odd, since he [...]

The Japanese school year begins in April, and today was the first day for some of the new first-year kids at Anthony's preschool to have their first bento. (It's a big day for them -- see "It's All About The Bento" for the story about Anthony's first bento back when he was a new student last year, and "First Bento of the New Semester" for a mid-term update.)

Anthony's mid-year class started having bentos last week, but on the occasion of the big day for his new schoolmates, I thought I'd post today's bento. It seems Fumie was inspired by [...]

We awoke this morning to find that Anthony had built an elevated-highway construction site on the kitchen table. Yes, I'm easily impressed by my own kid, but geez, just look at the detail. Cones and barriers in the proper spots, ladders leading from level to level.... the only thing not true to life is that the workers aren't eating lunch.

This is certainly a step up from the airport security gate from last week, and the street sweeper from six months ago. However, he's been doing research on the subject for a long time.

In a post earlier this week about one of our mini outings to enjoy the cherry blossoms, I mentioned that Anthony had brought along a BBQ set that he'd received from my sister Marci and her husband, grillmaster extraordinaire, Marty Kreta.

I thought I'd blogged about when he got it, but it turns out I hadn't, so I'll remedy that now, because it shows such quintessential Anthonyness (and quintessential me: I thought the camera was set to autofocus, but it wasn't, so the pictures ar all out of focus until I noticed).

He ended up laying out the [...]

We visited Fumie's mom to have some cake for my birthday. Anthony gave me a card that he picked out himself. Mommy wrote "happy birthday" on it for him, and then he drew a picture on it. It was very sweet.

Anthony was still dressed up from the entrance ceremony held that morning at his preschool (wearing the same spiffy vest that he wore to it last year).

Considering that he was dressed nicely, I'm glad that he ate more neatly than the last time he had chocolate cake.

After the cake, Anthony sat with Mommy and checked out [...]