Superstylin'

It's been a busy and fun month as we enjoyed the summer heat - except when the heat was too unbearable to enjoy! It's actually been a pretty mild summer compared with the last few years that I've been here.

Joshua now has his first teeth! They started showing about a week ago and now he has two sharp little chompers at the bottom. We're still waiting to see him crawl, but for now he seems content to get around using his rolling and sliding technique. His most recent check-up at the doctor saw him weighing in at 7.77kg and 70.3 cm long.....almost 5kg and over 20 cm bigger than his birth!

A little blurry, but can just see teeth - hard to take new teeth pics!; Josh likes mummys new hair; playing with Shinosuke-kun; jamming on the G-tar; health check

We started the month with a BBQ for all my workmates. It was nice to get everyone together outside of work and enjoy a feed and drinks.

We then went to stay a night in Hakone with Aki's mum. The first day we went to the Hakone Open-Air Museum - a big park like place with lot's of intersting sculptures, including a building dedicated to Picasso. It was actually more enjoyable than I thought, with many interesting and crazy pieces to see. We enjoyed a nice meal and hot bath at the ryokan and planned to play golf the next day. Unfortunately, a typhoon decided to interrupt those plans so we just headed home instead.

Aki and Joshua went away the following week to stay in Yamanashi with her family. They had a lot of fun as they could enjoy the cooler temperatures outside.

We got the pool out again, and this time Joshua enjoyed it a lot more. He was happy to splash around and be dragged through the water.



As part of our training days at work, we went to our company president's beach house near Zushi. After about an hour of talking business we were free.to enjoy the rest of the day, which meant BBQ, swimming, lot's of alcohol and a jacuzzi. Aki and Joshua also joined us in the afternoon. It was an awesome day, with one of the highlights being in the jacuzzi, with a glass of champagne, watching the sun set over Mt. Fuji. Truely Beautiful! I also saw some stingray while swimming and got my first real tan of the summer.....just hope it wasn't too much coz I hate to peel! Hopefully Shachou will tell us where he leaves the keys, so we can go back some time soon.