It's A Clark's Life

San Sai Little Guy - Happy Birthday Dylan!

Today Dylan turned 3.  Time seems to just keep flying by, and our san sai (three year old) little guy isn't quite so little anymore.  He keeps getting bigger and bigger with every blink of the eye.  To celebrate his birthday we had our dear friends the Rose's over for some pizza, cake and ice cream.  Dylan had a blast opening presents and taking pictures of everyone.  He was even sporting his Steelers jersey that his cousins gave him (thanks John). Here is one of his fine photos!

Blessed

When preparing to move to Japan, I spent a lot of time looking for an apartment.  Fortunately, we found a great building, but our building is really blessed with the greatest staff ever. Little did I know that the people at the front desk would have such an impact on how great Kate's experience would be here.  They are absolutely awesome.  Hiromi, the woman in the picture, is absolutely incredible.  She has been such a God sent to Kate, and so loving to Dylan.  She even bought Dylan birthday presents, as well as an incredibly thoughtful gift for Kate.

We are so blessed to live here and be surrounded by such wonderful people.

Tama Zoo

The lion safari was the coolest thing at the zoo.  We all loaded up on a bus and drove around the lion habitat and found a ton of lions.  This one was eager to snag the piece of meat that the zoo keepers hook onto the side of the bus for a little added excitement!  We also enjoyed orangutan walk.  The orangutans have two habitats about .5 mile from each other and are able to walk on the tight ropes to get to the other habitat.  We witnessed a mommy and baby walk the ropes. We went with Dylan's friend Sean.  Here they are at the end of the trip - whipped out but still able to pull off a smile next to the enormous orangutan. Dylan LOVED the baby giraffe and his family but was quite skeptical of the lonely zebra.  He was fond of the zebra truck though!

They Match.

Dylan will find a match if there is a match to be found!  Daddy came home last night and they went straight to the bedroom to change and out they came looking like this.  GO IRISH!

the next Bob "DYLAN"

Click Here to see Dylan playing the guitar.     He is so serious when he plays, it's comical.  

Second Day of Preschool

Before School After School
His teacher, Rachel, said he smiled the entire day and called out answers and participated in everything.  She said you would have never guessed it was his first preschool experience. 

First Day of Preschool

Dylan started preschool today.  He was very excited to go.  When Marina walked in the door in the morning he jumped up and told her that he was going to school today, then proceeded to put on his backpack and walk out the door.  I had to reel him in until it was time to go and I had a few more things to stash in his pack yet.  We got all the way to school, he gave his teacher a huge smile and I led him back to his classroom and he dug right into the toys.  I told him I was leaving and he said "Goodbye Mom".  I thought both of us would be emotional wrecks but we both held our own!  I was a little anxious holding my cell phone everywhere I went thinking the school would be calling about a crier...perhaps I was secretly hoping he would be missing his mom like mom was missing him.  I arrived at school 5 hours later, he was in the goodbye circle listening to the teacher read a story.  I heard him blurt out an answer which made me happy inside to know that he was still engaged into what was going on.  He finally spotted me and came over to me and was so excited to tell/show me everything!  Wow, this day couldn't have gone any better.  His teacher, Rachel, told me that he smiled the whole day and followed all the directions!