Rina lost her first tooth at the end of last year. It was a big drama to get it out – she wouldn’t let Dad touch it all and resorted to a family friend to accidentally knock it out, while he was really trying to knock it out. The friend in question just had to wipe a wet towel across her mouth and the tooth fell out. Simple as that. Then she discovered the “tooth fairy” and the magical money that she brings – though she was not quite sure what you did with money at that stage, a completely different story. But Rina did know that the money was valuable and had some intrinsic value to it. Yet once she did work it out after buying something with the first prize from the tooth fairy she then decided that it would be time to try and pull some more. Any time a tooth became the slightest bit loose she tried wiggling it a little more and more till eventually at school one came out. She then tried calculating how much she would have if she pulled out more teeth.
Rina
Our Snowman
We had the first decent snow in Tokyo for a few years – actually since the day that Emma was born. It was the type that just stuck around and we were able to have a bit of fun with it. So what do you do? Build a Snowman of course.
Rina and Emma were having a ball walking around in the snow and then trying to roll a snowball from the layer that was on the ground. The cold and the wet snow was a really new experience for the both of them – and an experience for Dad in making a snowman in the city.
PhotoBooth
Rina has really gotten into PhotoBooth with the computer. She has taken quite a few hundred pictures using PhotoBooth and we’ve put a few of them up here.
The pictures above were taken a few days ago. She’s really getting into it all.