Soccer!

Yukine and Hinata-chan

Yukine had so much fun at the playground with her new friend Hinata-chan!  They held hands almost the entire time.

Vegetable garden

Yukine and Tetsushi hard at work setting up the vegetable garden.  We have Japanese cucumber, Japanese eggplant, Shishito (a kind of pepper), a variety of tomatoes, and basil.  Hoping for a fruitful harvest in a few months.  I am so excited! Thanks for setting this up guys!

Backyard

The first pic is the back of our house.  We are finally getting settled in.  It is so nice to be in a house verses apartment.  Yukine loves the backyard.  There are lots of plants to inspect and flowers to smell.  The second pic os of grapes.  We have two grape vines, but I have no idea how to take care of them.  Hopefully we will be able to eat them at the end of the summer.

Pink Umbrella

Baba and Jiji sent Yukine a pink umbrella and rain boots.  Yukine has been talking about wanting a pink umbrella for months and she is so excited to finally have one.  Now we just have to wait for it to rain!

Erin visit

Erin came down for a visit finally!  Yukine and Erin got to be great friends and we had lots of fun. Thanks for coming Erin!

Picnic

We were invited to a picnic with the kids Yukine will be going to youchien (japanese preschool) with this fall. It was such a nice day, complete with an egg hunt and a box of ladybugs! Yukine was so excited to start hunting eggs, I could hardly get her to open up the box of ladybugs. She, of course, sported her new glasses. She had a great time running around and playing with the other kids. I am really excited for her to start preschool in September.