A New Baby 2 / 赤ちゃん誕生２

杏 (Japanese = An, English = Ann) Mooney was born 11:36 a.m. March 10th (JST). 

She weighed 3,300 grams and was 50.4 centimeters at the time. 

I drove Tomo to the hospital around 10:30 a.m. and she gave birth soon afterwards. I was not there however, because I had the flue and was told to go home. Ray was also sick. Tomo's parents came up and helped out immensely while Tomo and Ann were in the hospital.

Kasajizou

Tomo did some more illustrations for NHK. 

Click on the illustration above to see more.

２月・February

In February...

...we went for a walk...

Tomo's friend, Komeko-san, and Yuki moved to another prefecture...

Ray learned to speak and "read" in simple sentences. 

It's mostly Japanese, but occasionally he'll drop an English word or two...

 Ray got sick and was in the hospital for six days...

We went to check out some Tori in Kashima...

...and we visited Katori-Jingu, in Chiba.

2014年 お正月

あけましておめでとうございます。

2014年もどうぞよろしくお願いします。

田んぼの畦道散歩中

大画面の「何とか48」に見入る嶺

道了尊にお参り。朋と嶺はバスで上りサムと嶺はバスで下る

毎年１月2日のお昼頃参拝するけど今年は人出が多かった

のり結婚式

哲由が１２月１５日の大安に結婚式を挙げました〜！！めでたい！場所は東京の文京区にある椿山荘。晴天で庭園の紅葉もまだまだ見頃。本当にいい日に挙式できました。ムーニー一家も車で「ぶぶいんっ」（嶺はこのように言う）と馳せ参じました。嶺もいいお洋服を着て裸足で（靴下を忘れた）いとこ達と食べたり飲んだり楽しく過ごしました。

 

Ray's second birthday ／ 嶺君の二歳の誕生日

Ray managed to keep himself alive for another year, so we celebrated by taking him to an aquarium.

The ugly duckling...

Tomo illustrated "The Ugly Duckling" for a kid`s show here in Japan.
Here's a link to the site: お話の国
You can read the story here: みにくいあひるの子