Another week of Luka and Leiya's stay!

We are coming onto the end of Leiya and Luka's second week in Japan.  I'm really surprised at how quickly the days are passing though we don't get all that much done...

We have learned that it really doesn't take much to keep Luka occupied and that we don't have to go out looking for amusement parks and fancy places.  He is content to be digging in Jiji's backyard as he is at a sandbox in a city park.  

We MAKE plans to go somewhere but quite often we get waylaid at some minor place with a children's slide or some treestumps and that is where we end up for the next couple of hours...

I too settle down on a bench (or a treestump) and sketch, while Tetsu and Leiya entertain Luka and it is a lovely way to spend an afternoon.

We get to the supermarket and Luka has as much fun in the store push cart as he does on park rides... and Leiya enjoys buying the foods she remembers from her childhood.  According to her, everything is so fantastically delicious and she can't help praising my cooking which is such a laugh but greatly appreciated!

We went and visited John once at the vets where he is being boarded and we took him for a walk around the parking lot.  Luka was interested in John but John had no eyes at all for his visitors... not for me nor Tetsu either.  Hmph.  It doesn't look like we've been missed...

My arty stuff has been put on hold, at least the learning aspect of it.  Instead I try to add a doodle in my bullet journal about what we did that day or something Luka said or saw.  None of my doodles look like the people I'm trying to depict but at least yone can tell they are people or whatever...  In this case I just thought it was so funny that my 2 year old grandson had such vocabulary when I went to check on him in the bathroom!

One entry was of our meal was at a noodle restaurant.

Yesterday we spent some time again at a beautiful city park and I parked myself at a picnic table while everyone else went off to play.

I realized when I got to the park that though I had brought pencils and watercolors and pens, that I had forgotten my glasses!  (Excuses, excuses!)

Tetsu loving the time being a grandfather.

He (Tetsu) was pretty exhausted by the end of the day though.

Luka especially enjoyed hearing all the frogs making noise in this pond.

Even with all the exercise and sunshine, Luka wasn't sleepy last night and so we had a midnight bedtime story hour.  EGADS!!!!  As Tetsu points out, I look just like my mother in this photo!  So scary and shocking to me!!!  But Luka and the three cats who are there listening to the Cat in the Hat Comes Back don't seem to mind!