Making a boy happy!

Give my 3 and 1/2 year old boy a couple of tractors, especially the real stuff, and you will make him really happy. I am wondering if he dreams about them at night...

Kitty cats

A family of cats has invaded the terrace of the house, making the kids really really happy. Guess what they do, first thing in the morning?

Chloé & Mathias - France, July 2013

The cows next door

Mathias - France, July 2013

There are three things that Mathias is doing every day no matter what: checking out the neighbour's dog {Bella}, the neighbor's cows {and letting the veals lick his fingers} and playing with the neighbor's cats.

Country girl

Chloẻ - France 2013

Spiderman 2013

Believe it or not, it's been almost a year since I have last updated this blog. Life's been pretty busy in Tokyo, and I didn't have the power, the energy and maybe something else called "need" to update this blog. I didn't like its design anymore, and I slowly stopped updating it.

I did a couple of posts about our life in Japan on the other side {catch up here} but that's pretty much all. I actually missed documenting our life, it's kind of nice to look back and see the changes we've gone through... So here we are, with a first photo of our summer holiday in France.

Mathias - France 2013

A weekend in Izu Peninsula

This past weekend we went to Izu peninsula with Papa. We don't have so many chances to see him at the moment as he's working a lot and this little trip was great! Izu is only 200km from Tokyo {south} and it's got beautiful beaches and great food too {although Mathias and I don't know yet how to appreciate it}. We certainly loved our time at the beach!

Look at the crystal clear water!

The photos below were taken on the way down south the peninsula. You can view Mont Fuji in the back. My Papa climbed this mountain last month!

This was our room in the accommodation. We slept on futons all together, Japanese style. How fun!

Photo taken by our host when we left :-)

Mama wrote an entire post about our trip here on her blog; go have a look, she's showing very nice pictures that she took!

Thank you Papa for bringing us there!

Updates!

It's been a while... Mama has taken a break in August then she has been busy when we got back in Tokyo. We have so many updates for you though!

First of all we've started school last week. We both like it even though Mathias still cries a bit in the morning when Mama drops him at Keiki (the name of his school). Let's go through our "first day pics"!

That's me {Chloe} in my summer school uniform. Mama and Mathias or usually Papa are bringing me to the bus that will bring me to school. The bus leaves at 7:50am and we usually wake up Mama at 5am or 5:30am although she says 6am would be just enough ;-)
The first day though Mama and Mathias brought me to school and we went by normal bus {photo below}:

Mathias is usually going to school by bike and Mama rides it. It's about 4.2km each way and she does it 4 times per day. Wouahou!! So far it hasn't rained so it was ok. When it's really too hot in the afternoon, she goes by bus. Mathias starts school at 9am and finishes at 2:30pm. I finish at 3pm and Mama + Mathias pick me up nearby home at 3:47pm.

Mama's bike

Keiki is the name of Mathias's school. It's small and super very friendly, I love it too! They do a lot of activities and a lot of crafts. I will attend some activities after school at Mathias's school soon :-)

 Mathias didn't cry on his first day. But he certainly did the following days!

Mama trying to snap a photo as Mathias gets into school. Ms Geta is his teacher, she's from Romania and she's lovely!

There are a lot of things going on at school, and we will soon have a big party called Festival of nations, and also a picnic! I can't wait really.

I have also made friends in the bus and in my class. Some are much older than me and they are always very kind. Our neighbours are also half Filipino like us, it's cool! 

More photos to come this week!

'A cheval' in Switzerland!

July 2012

Coffee time

(not the best photo, but it's my Mama's fault...)

Dress up! {Chloé}

Other kind of things that keep me busy these days... {Mathias}

Being a chef! I want to be as good as my Papa :-)

A new hobby of mine... {Mathias}

France - July 2012

Things I* do on Saturdays...

With David, Mama's cousin

July 2012

*I, Mathias. Chloe is mainly playing Barbie...

At the playground in the city

France - July 2012

Chez Grand-Maman

We are spending a lot of time at our Grand-Maman's house every week. Actually she's my great grand-ma and will turn 94 in August. She still lives by herself in the Swiss village - where she was born, next to our French village. We walk to her place for lunch (yes, she cooks delicious lunches for us as well -> she made me, Chloe, eat spinach for lunch today!). She has her own vegetable and flower garden that she maintains all by herself. She's fantastic!

 Great Grand-Maman Anna watching us from the terrace

 Running and racing with our Swiss scooters bought in Singapore 

and brought all the way to France (and Switzerland!)

My brother posing...

Having fun!

The circus!!

This isn't very recent actually as we went to the circus the first week after we arrived in France... it was the first time for Mathias and I, and man did we enjoy the show (although Mathias fell asleep towards the end as we went there at night)! We saw elephants, beautiful horses, a camel, a dog (!), and many others fantastic things (but no lion or tigers...). We ate popcorns too!

 Someone never hold a pose more than 1 second!

 The name of the circus was KNIE - it's the most famous Swiss circus.

 Music box...

Tired us? Never...!!!

In the car, on the way back from Neufchatel in Switzerland

June 27, 2012

Country picnic in France

Hello!

It's been a while since we last posted pictures of ourselves... and guess what? I am now in France at my Papi and Mamie's house. We arrived two weeks ago with my Mama, and we are enjoying the country side lifestyle a lot. How lucky we are - you are allowed to think so.

Last night we were all by ourselves with Mama, so she decided we should go out in the forest for a picnic. It had been a very long and hot day, and we had spent most of it inside the house, so it was about time to get out!

We walked for a while until I asked for a break and we started our picnic. We could see Grand-Maman's house in Switzerland from where we were sitting.

On the menu: bread, hard boiled eggs, local cheese, green salad (only for Mama), cherry tomatoes, banana and apple.

 Ready to go! we are continuing our exploration and will go up the "mountain" to Le Charcot where there is a view of the village and we can watch the sun set.

 Mama had brought our color pencils of course, it was lovely to draw all together in the grass while watching the sun (and the cows). We thought a lot about our Papa who can't spend time with us in France this year. We miss you Papa!

by me (Chloé): that's only the beginning of my drawing -> a slide and a swing, which I have only started to draw for the first time yesterday!