We got to go because baseball practice was cancelled Saturday and Sunday on account of rain. Typhoon, to be exact. The second one of the season, already--and rather too early.
...but we've had a fair bit of rain (which I wish I could send to Dominic!), and it seems rather too early for the rainy season. It makes me wonder how so much rain so early will affect the rice (which will already be in short supply later in the year because of the tsunami, which destroyed the field in the Tohoku region. Can't grow rice in field that have been swamped with salt water.).
Koshi's fifth grade class planted rice in a field across the road from the school, which I'll be posting about as soon as I get some decent pictures. I hope their rice doesn't get ruined!
Anyway--we got to play with Kitty (O-Baasan calls him Mario, which the kids suggested) all weekend.
He's nearly twice as big as he was when we found him-- and, my goodness, what a Genki little kitty! I think he's driving my in-laws nuts. He's been biting and scratching... because he wants to *play*!
The kids played with him like that literally for hours, until...
...kitty just passed out. He had so much fun playing...
...helping with homework...
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| Oooh! A pen! |
...well, sort of helping. Helping that was more like playing (or stealing pens and pencils...;-).
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| Koshi and Kitty |
They watched TV together...
...batted toys all over. Scampered back and forth. Made me feel guilty, leaving my poor in-laws to deal with a wound-up kitty after we left...
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| ...and then everybody went to bed together:-) O-Yasumi nasai! |
