sleeping pokemons — left togane late & missed the earthquake on sunday night… according to twitter & facebook it was a reasonably big one… we spent the weekend doing the park, beach, shopping & gardening thing, which was nice & relaxing… the pokemons crashed out in the car on the way home, thereby missing out on scenic views of tokyo at night from gridlock on the rainbow bridge…
yesterday, in the non-traffic-jammed part of the weekend, haruki spent approximately forever running down the beach towards the ocean shouting, “the sea! the sea! the sea!” until the next wave started heading towards him, at which point he’d turn around & run back up the beach yelling, “scary! scary! scary!”
it’s a routine that absolutely never gets old, could watch him for hours…
& we have a minor ant infestation in the togane house at the moment, so we went out & bought some no doubt ecologically & karmically unsound ant poison this morning… hana was reading the packaging this evening, which in best japanese packaging-style has a short manga depicting happy ants picking up & carrying little pellets of ant killer back to their nest, at which point they all suddenly lie on their backs with their legs in the air…
hana suddenly looks up, very serious, & asks, “ants think this is yummy?” yes, they do. “but then the ants die?” uh… i look at sumie, sumie looks at me…
parenting. never a dull moment.
