Having just gotten back from Malaysia, which included something like 10 separate flights (two each direction, and some round-drip excursions within Malaysia), Anthony certainly had plenty of time to absorb the "airport experience." So I thought it only slightly odd when he wanted me to make a "baggage checker" (baggage X-Ray machine) out of paper and tape. What he did with it, well, I thought amazing.

The white paper thing in the center is what I made for him, under his close direction and supervision (of the luggage chute, for example, he animately directed that "this needs to slope down"). [...]

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Going through some old pictures, I came across this one from a year ago January, when Anthony was three years three months old. When he wakes up and first ventures out of his room, he brings the "friends" he slept with. He brings them to the couch in the livingroom, and in this case, I caught him enroute.

This time he's got Papa George (in blue striped jammies), Shimajiro (yellow tiger), Stubby (big bear behind Shimajiro), George (sticking out from under Stubby), and his bear-face pillow. There's also likely another George in there somewhere.

(Sorry for the [...]

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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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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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