Third Culture Kid(s)

This, of course:

But also a lot of this:

For the record, she looks just like her paternal grandmother in this picture.
Also, as a little bit of sunshine, I present you with MM’s latest work of art:
Elmo with horse and cowboy hat

You can’t make up that kind of thing.

So, we braved the National Cherry Blossom Festival yesterday.  The blossom peak was last Sunday, but the weather was gorgeous and the petals were just starting to rain down yesterday, so it turned out to be a really lovely day.
It was MM’s first trip to DC; we took the train (”wheeeeeee!”), which starts out (for […]

This morning, MM rushed over to me from where she was playing with her Little People (population: seal (1); lion (1); polar bear (1); exotic bird, aka: “Cheep” (1); monkey (1); elephant (1); dinosaur, adult (1); dinosaur, infant + egg (1); Hawaiian travelers (2); cave person (1); airline pilot (1); zoo groundskeeper (1 M.I.A.)) and […]

I could have done the ‘right’ thing and started speaking Japanese more when MM was still in the womb. But I felt like an idiot muttering things to myself and there weren’t many other people around to speak with.
I could have made Japanese ‘our’ language when MM was a baby. But it felt […]