Our favourite nearby spot 気に入りのお散歩スポット

Ever since I have my Little-big-boss around, almost everyday we’ll be out having a walk or to nearby parks or tea with nearby mama friends

It’s just easier for me to look after Little-big-boss and without cleaning up and got messed up again the next minute
And of course it’s happier, healthier and much more fun for me and Little-big-boss himself

Yeah, we have to keep connected with the outside world through our sense not just through the screen




Anyway, when we were having our walk, there’s this old little cigarettes’ shop that we would stop by most of the time.

This shop is kinda unique

The uncle from this shop will always place something especially things that attract kids in front of his shop And they keep changing according to seasons and festivals

For example,

A table with some spinning tops
One of the old-time games



Kinda nostalgic to see this and heart warming to know there’s someone is trying to keep the old culture
Little-big-boss had fun with them

Kids play whatever is given, shall we let them explore before they got stick on the screen of some sort

There were colorful rubber balls in a pool of water too
Hold, roll, throw, pick the colors, any ways you wanna play it




At the same time, it was the 7th of July, the Tanabata festival
Uncle, the shop owner prepared some papers and pens there for people to write down their wishes, “tanzaku”

And we wrote down a few

Little-big-boss writing down some wishes too
He had a flu, so I wrote a wish wishing him for fast recovery



The setting for the festival



A wish for everyone 　May you all be happy always






1歳１０か月１６日
1 year 10 months 6 days old






After a month, when I came back from Malaysia, we came by this shop again

As usual, though I didn’t mention it yet, there are always some small animals displayed alongside too.
Fishes , scorpions , snakes, snails, crabs, tortoise, beetles and etc



In small aquariums and containers



The uncle here I think he likes kids to expose more to the nature, that he always talk and persuade Little-big-boss to try and touch or hold the little animals (the safe one of course!).
Little-big-boss likes to see from far, but once any of them is near him, he will move back and hide



Since he was afraid of touching any of them, the uncle let him help to feed the tortoise instead



In summer, there was a plant of Mimosa Pudica displayed over there too.
I think some of you may be quite familiar with this in your childhood
In Malay, we called it rumput malu-malu which means bashful grass
and in Japanese we called it Ojigi grass (おじぎ草) which means the bowing grass



And we have a new display this round!
“Rocks with drawings”
Creative and definitely one of an interesting activity for the kids






What even more surprising me was, the Tanabata display a month ago has turned to…

The Kappa family (*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)



And there were 2 families (*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)
It is a tradition to water the Kappa’s head especially when it dries up faster in a hot summer day



Here’s a display of Kappa’s faces



Feeling inspired, we got the base from uncle and started drawing our own kappa



Tadah~ the Kappa pendant



Hehe
Happy summer~

1歳１１か月１３日
1 year 11 months 13 days old