It's A Clark's Life

Max Goes to School

Dylan was special person of the week (a couple of weeks ago already) and he brought Max in for "Show and Tell".  As soon as I brought Max into the classroom, Dylan proudly stands up and boldly says, "Max is a big big dog."  Dylan thought he was the coolest little dude in the classroom.  He had Max do some tricks "Shake" and "Roll Over".  The other children loved Max to pieces and Max did a wonderful job taking it all in stride.  Actually, now when I bring Max to drop off and pick up Dylan from school, I think it's is favorite time of the day.  I also read a book to the class called "Petropolis".  It's a book about a dog named, Max, who goes to the city for a day.  Cute, cute book.  Here are a couple of pictures Dylan's teacher took.

Fishing.......but different.

As with many things with our Japan experience, something we were embarking on was slightly different than what we were expecting.  This past weekend we went camping with some good friends of ours, and as part of this trip we went to a farm that happened to have a fishing pond.  The pond is stocked with some of the hungriest/dumbest little rainbow trout you could imagine, which is perfect for a three year old fisherman.  We should have known something was up though, when they asked us how many fish we wanted to eat.  "Eat?", I thought.  Na, we just wanna catch'm and throw'm back in.  Nope, that aint an option.  You catch'm, you eat'm.  So, needless to say, we had ourselves a different sort of fish sticks.  The pictures kinda layout the process.

   

Hodge Podge

Here'sa hodge podge of pictures that we have taken the last few weeks but haven't been blogging about them.

Dylan and Alex playing together at Alex's house.

Dylan and Daddy camping out on the couch after a full day of soccer at the Highland Scottish Games In Japan. 

Alex and Dylan turned three on the same day.  They celebrated together at playgroup.  Christiane, Alex's mom, baked a fun number three cake.

Dylan got to throw wet sponges at his buddy, Jack, at the Nichimachi International School Food Fair.

Dylan celebrated his third birthday at preschool with baseball cupcakes! (Dylan wiped out on the swing at the playground the day before)