July 31th 2011

Nathalie and Elliott are flying back to NYC.
Thank you so much for those 2 wonderfull weeks!!!!
Merci merci papa Nathalie et grand frère Elliott!!!!!

July 30th 2011

Last evening together...
Tomorrow they will fly back to NYC...

July 29th 2011

Today Amané got 15 months!!!!

She played with papa Nathalie,

ate curry rice (for babies!) at the restaurant,

and went to the open air museum

of japanese architecture near our house...

She liked so much tatamis rooms...

July 27th 2011

Amané has a new favorite activity:




cleaning the house....!!!

July 26th 2011

After finger paint and crayon, today Amane tried felt-tips.
She was really excited...but not for drawing!

She was excited to put on and off the caps!!

July 25th 2011

Amané had a new favorite place...
The park of the university just near our house...

Fishes and dragon flies in the pond...



And in alley, lot of students
smiling and saying:
Cute cute!!!




Difficult to leave all those fans
and to come back home..........

July 24 th 2011

Today we were lucky it was not so hot!!!!

With Umechan, Elliott
and Papa Nathalie
we went to Kitakamakura!!!

July 23th 2011

This morning, Nathalie took care
of Amane!!!! Merci!!!!



And in the afternoon we went to a masturi...

C'est une fête d'été dans chaque quartier

avec des jeux, des stands de plats, des défilés de danse...

Amané really enjoyed the music, all the taikos

and the dance...

She clapped her hands a lot!

And coming back home,

she danced like Bon O dori!

Nice festival!!!

July 22th 2011

Amané is doing same as Yumi!
She's drawing after breakfast!



And today Umechan came to visit us!!!
Nice time!!!

July 21th 2011

After a full day at Yoriko's house
Amané came to the park
with us....



Nathalie showed her how to throw

stones in the river....

Amané really likes to walk there!

She's going alone!

Bye bye Amané!!!