It's A Clark's Life

It's a Daddy Day!

The first thing Dylan determines when he wakes up is, will it be a Daddy Day or a Mommy Day.  When we confirm it's a Daddy Day, the crowd (Dylan and Max) go wild!  Well, we had THREE Daddy Day's in a row and wow, it was fun!  We took a long weekend and went to Hakuba.  It's a 3.5hr drive Northwest of Tokyo in the Japan Alps.  We have been there in the winter to ski and loved it so we thought we would try it out in the summer.  Max joined us and we took him swimming in the lake and to the ski slopes to get some good ol'fashion running in.  He was pooped by the end of the weekend.  Dylan loved exploring and throwing rocks into the lake and making big splashes.  We went for a canoe ride and Dylan had his own little paddle.  The big excitement of the weekend was when Dylan got to close to the edge of a bubbling brook and fell down the edge and did a face plant on the other side, making a mess of top lip and space under his nose.  A stick punctured just above his lip but fortunately didn't go all the way through.  He had a fat lip for the next three days. He was a little soldier through it all and it's looking like it will heal very nicely.   We had a great little getaway weekend. 

Happy 5th Birthday Max!

We are so happy to have Max with us here in Japan - he is doing great and we're going to celebrate by taking him up into the mountains this weekend.

Dad taught him.

 Mom and Dylan were painting pictures in the dining room, along came Dad and painted Dylan a picture...

TAC POOL

We took Dylan swimming at the Tokyo American Club pool on Sunday.  All of his good buddies were there.  Sean, Deacon, Hayden, Dylan & Alex.  Hours of fun!  (apparently when you click on the picture of Dylan and Alex you will be able to see video of the boys jumping...not sure how that happened!)