my little-big-boss

Throughout the week, as mentioned on my last post, everyday was a pool day for us.. 

We are lucky enough that on one of our pool day, we were invited to a very very nice pool
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The rooftop INFINITY POOL

Isn’t this epic 
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What a day to be relaxed on a pool like this 

..as if a mother can relax that easily where she was responsible for the children safety! 
Little-big-boss and his cousin brother, Yang.
Especially in a pool!  haha

My kakkoii baby  haha
The view of the city from the pool was marvelous.
City but not in the middle of the busy surroundings or tall sky scraper buildings 

I am very glad that Little-big-boss is getting comfortable in the water, in deep water 
It’s cool looking at him swimming so freely and cute to see him poking out his head from the water very frequently to get air
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He jumps very confidently..

Though not penetrating into the pool smoothly, but splash flatly onto it  Ouch!
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Little-big-boss’ pool friends of the day 
Cousin sister, Little Clara  (together with mommy)

And cousin brother, Yang gorgor (bro) (together with my cousin, the host lady )

And with little baby Carlson too  (Little Clara’s brother)
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Thank you for inviting us, couz! 

To this amazing pool of your hubby’s condo! 
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While we were chilling down in the pool on this hot hot weather in Malaysia..
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Yasupi papa is chilling down on hot summer in Japan with his new machine!!
The ice scraper machine 

Yasupi papa had been envying us having fun in the pool without him..
so he sent me these pics to make me feel the same..

 20150718
 1049 days old
 2歳10か月16日 / 2 yrs-10 mths-16 days

This year trip to Malaysia, as usual we one family came to Malaysia but the daddy was just here for 5 days.
Me and Little-big-boss is staying for a whole long month 

Well, we haven’t been to anywhere particularly..

EXCEPT the pool! 
Almost everyday! after daddy has gone back to Japan, we were in the pool 

Yes, he jumps to the pool like a swimmer 

He was in a baby swimming course since 1 year old 

He can stay in deep water without support, without struggling now 

He has grew to be quite comfortable in the water..
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That he likes to be tossed up high 

Higher..

Again and again..

And never gets tired of it..

Tossing photos credited to my friend, June! who took these perfectly

With the company by little baby June
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He goes on to a baby surfing board too 

He kinda gets excited on the unbalance board 

Surfing photos credited to my friend AnnEe with her two little twins as our pool friends too on that day!
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My little surfer 
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Thank you June for the invitation to your pool!

 20150712
 1043 days old
 2歳10か月10日

This is how the story goes..

As usual, when we were having a little walk, we have been going to our nearby favorite spot still.

One fine day, a big fish tank was out in the display! (around end of March)

Inside the tank, there were loads of tadpoles!! 

The uncle said we can have some home, so Little-big-boss did take some home..

Twice in two different days

I think there were 26~28? of them all together..

And so, Little-big-boss got his first pet home 

I never knew that the tadpoles eat variety food!  bread, meat, fish flakes, veges, etc!
We fed them bread mostly 

It was good that he was interested in observing the tadpoles 

About a month later..
The hind legs are out

They were still tadpoles with 2 legs then..
Still eating bread for their meals 

Since then, the progress in turning to a frog was fast!

Within a week,

Forelegs are out too

Tails are still long, I don’t know whether to categorize this as a tadpole or a frog..

It was time to make some land for them to come out from the water..

Within another 2, 3 days..

FROGS

A very little frog I have ever seen!
They were like smaller than my pinky finger nail!

They were fast turning into a frog since the hind legs were out

Frogs eats insects..

It was hard to give them food at this stage..

Yes, it was time to return them back to where they belonged to.. the riverside.

Time to say bye-bye, froggie~
Little-big-boss was ok and copping very good the whole process 
He told the froggie, “Time to go home frog~“, when freeing them to the muddy land

This area was just nice for the little frogs! 
Damped and loads of potential prey for them

Of course not all grown up the same speed.
Some fully grown up, some still with tails and some still a tadpole!

We’d been coming to this spot for 4 times to free all of the frogs 
Some were dead though..

On the last trip freeing the frogs, Little-big-boss found a treasure 

And a new PET

A shrimp! A rather cool shrimp! 
Given by a man who was fishing at the riverside 

Setting up a new home for the new pet..

A rather big and cool shrimp

The is our first time owning a shrimp as well..

Isn’t it cute? 

Unfortunately, it didn’t survive long..

To fill up the aquarium again, we are now having some Japanese rice fish and Yamato shrimp accompanied by a snail who just popped out of nowhere






The first day owning the tadpoles
 20150325
 934 days old
 2歳6か月23日






By the way, we are back in Malaysia now~
Gonna blog about playtime in Malaysia next

The koi pond covered with fallen Sakura
(Click image to enlarge)






 20150403
 943 days old
 2歳7か月1日

 Sakura, the early blooming.
 Sakura, the full blossom!
Sakura, the full blossom still!






About a week after the peak blossom, it was time to bid goodbye to the Sakura 

Though the Sakura was starting to fall, they still make a beautiful view ever

If some breezy wind comes by, it makes it all amazingly pretty for a O-hanami day
with the Sakura falling gracefully down to the ground assembling the falling snow

We called it “Sakura Fubuki 桜吹雪”

Too bad I didn’t get to capture the moment of the falling Sakura with the breeze

But I guess it worth more to feel this amazing moment before anything else 

I have this Little-big-boss, who starts to recognize Sakura more than he did last year

Had fun just as much with the Sakura

Looking like a Ancient Chinese poet..

Observing the Sakura tree

As if, he was getting so comfortable with the Sakura tree 

As if, he had befriended the Sakura tree

Yeah, as if..
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For the Sakura or not, I like this place even for a walk quite much

It is along the river, and we were on the higher ground

With the view of the metropolitan city of Tokyo

Some playgrounds just on the lower ground

It’s great to have this kind of place just nearby

Despite that we’re now living in a concrete city 
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Some snapshots with the Sakura before farewell

The happy shot – holding hand pose

The loving shot – carry up and hug pose

The weird shot – ..Spiderman pose?

 20150406
 946 days old
 2歳7か月4日

Sakura, the early blooming.
Sakura, the full blossom!






My 4th round O-hanami!

A leisure one

Driving around the city ,
looking at the Sakura trees along side the road ,
and stopped at this wonderful Sakura trees spot,

Ni-ka-ryou-you-sui, Shu-ku-ga-wa-ra
(宿河原、二ヶ領用水)
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These baby pink trees

They are just magically amazing

It is really a blessing

To be able to witness these beauty

And that we could be one of the luckiest being ever

20150401
941 days old
2歳6か月30日

Last post: Sakura, the early blooming.

It was the FULL BLOSSOM~
at Tamagawa riverside

O-hanami (お花見)- 2nd round

This round we were just here unplanned
It was just because of this riverside is so near,
and it was just because the weather was too good to be missed 
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Tea-time picnic

Chicky cheese cake for a little tea-time picnic

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Befriend with the Sakura trees

Up on a full blossomed tree

With mama~

We were here with friends actually
the park under the Sakura trees

20150301
940 days old
2歳6か月29日
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O-hanami (お花見)- 3rd round

2 days after the 2nd round,
still the peak of full blooming
at the same spot, Tamagawa riverside.

This round was planned earlier
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Lunch-time

O-hanami lunch picnic this round~

A simple packed lunch

I know that I’m repeating,
but this is really a heaven being able to have a life surrounded by these heavenly trees
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And again,
we were actually here with friends  bigger group.
The “mommies and babies” friends 
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Playtime~

Breeeeaathe in..

Fuuuuuuuuuuu~!
The bubbles

1 company

2 companies

Waaaaaaah~
*looking at the flying bubbles*

The little angels
having the Sakura trees watching over them
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  Some resting and snapping time 

Resting Little-big-boss

Resting Little-big-boss and mommy *pee-ka-boo*

Some candid shots taken by my Little-big-boss

Shot 1: The mommy

Shot 2: The mommy

Shot 3: The mommy and friend

Shot 4: The Sakura tree

He is getting so so so much better in taking photos..
The main objects all in frame and clear without much camera shake!
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Hard to say goodbye

Yes, it was hard to leave the Sakura saying goodbye at the end of the day..

But this little guy even more..

Hard to leave wherever there is a play-time..
(Been asking him to go home, and he still kept playing on this slope leaving us the last to go off..)
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Once he got on the stroller,

ZZZzzzzz






20150403
943 days old
2歳7か月1日

Sakura, one of the most beautiful flower of them all
Sakura, one of the wonders on earth
Sakura, which has only about a week life
Sakura, which is too beautiful to be missed

Here it is!
The spring!
The Sakura season
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Still in the early blooming~ 
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Ready to go for our first O-hanami (Sakura-viewing) at a nearby park
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Before whatever, lunch-time go first!
A little lunchbox for a little ‘hanami’ picnic

With Onigiri (rice-ball)

This is just a nearby park,
like around 8mins walk from our house

but we got to see Sakura

while picnicking!
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Playtime after lunch

Walking around with the toy dump truck
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Next, some bubbles-time under the Sakura~

One bubble

Scattering bubbles~

Focusing bubbles~

One big blow bubbles~

Go with the wind bubbles~
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Next, climbing-up-the-Sakura-tree

“Mommy~”

“Look!”

“I climbed the tree!”

Nah, it was mommy carried him up~

Yay~
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Next, sandbox-time!

Building a mountain~

This actually was a very nice sandbox~
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Last,
some running and jumping around the park!
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And so, this was the early blooming of Sakura

20150330
939 days old
2歳6か月26日

See story of Last winter!

See story of This winter, the Sonata. (1st part)

This is the different version (2nd part) of our winter in Niseko this year

This was a journey, an adventure of me with my Little-big-boss traveling without hubby without daddy
(Yappi was busy with his work..)

Yappi dropped us at the airport and went to work straight away

The journey starts here

First, we had breakfast at Royal Coffee Shop in the airport (Haneda)
French Toast breakfast set

We were quite on time when we arrived at the waiting lobby but the flight was late due to heavy snow in Sapporo reported 
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I was worried that we might not going to make it that day..
Thank god, the gate opened an hour later

Excited on the plane waiting for the take off

Just when the plane started to move, Little-big-boss took off to his dreamland
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Arrived! Yay

Ready to go out to the snow~~~
(We arrived one day earlier than Yuki-chan )
See story of This winter with Yuki-chan
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Next step, waiting for the bus to the car rental shop!
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All set in the car
Visited a friend in Sapporo on the same day

And, stayed a night at a nearby hotel (Apa hotel Sapporo)

Waking up so gracefully

Had a quick breakfast
before we head to the airport again to pick up Yuki-chan and Yuki-mommy
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Once we were in Niseko,
we planned to have loads of snow-time
But unfortunately, poor Little-big-boss got a stomach flu on the very first night we arrived in Niseko

Had been vomiting whatever he consumed, even water..

He himself was quite okay except the vomiting part
He wanted to eat and drink, but his stomach was not allowing him to..

I limited his food/water consuming..
At night he kept waking up asking for water..

I can only give him a sip or two at once..

He kept nagging,
“I wanna drink water, I wanna drink water”

And it was heartbreaking where I can’t give him more

In the morning, he had some porridge
He ate them very eagerly, he looked just fine
I thought he was fine too until he vomited again

We still went to a nearby ski mountain, Asahigaoka Ski Park in Kutchan to have a leisure snow playing time
Little-big-boss didn’t seem to have much energy for the snow that day..
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It was great that Little-big-boss was getting better before the last day of the trip

We still made it for some fun snow-time together

Little-big-boss looked completely well after the flu (@Hanazono Niseko Japan)

He had too much fun on the tube that he actually didn’t even let me sit on the tube together at all

Though I still able to convinced him for a snap
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We moved to Grand Hirafu Ski Resort at noon to continue our snow-time

Yuki-chan’s mommy went for a ski lesson and I was in-charged to watched over the kids

They were good kids No hard time at all

We even had a tea/snack time

Back to the snow..
A snap with Little-big-boss

A snap with Yuki-chan

Yuki-chan’s mommy was back for a group-snap
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Noon-nap time~
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My turn to have a free-time!!

Can’t possibly leaving this wonderful snow mountain without a run from the top 
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The FOOD-time

Since Little-big-boss was not too well for most of the days, we didn’t eat out much.

Ramen at Hanazono 308.
Good hot ramen after the coldness in the snow

Italian food at Trattoria Bleu Cielo.
They had a very comfy space with toys for kids to play!!

Chinese food at Xie Xie Chinese Cuisine (シェイシェイ).
It was good and spacious.

We preferred the taste more at Kouka Chinese Cuisine (広華)
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Time to go home..
Waking up..

Having breakfast..

Feeling heavy to leave..
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But happiness continues

2015.02.02~2015.02.07
883 days old~888 days old
2歳5か月1日~2歳5か月5日

See story of Last winter

Yes, we went to Niseko again this winter

This time the winter in Niseko was spent with a friend,
a “girl” friend

Meet Yuki-chan
Yuki-chan is a friend from baby swimming class since 1 year+ ago

They got along quite well

Yuki-chan was happy holding hand together and,
Little-big-boss was acting as if he was caring for Yuki-chan, leading her as a reliable man..

After some lunch..

They are ready off to a snow wonderland
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While on the way, they were playing and chatting all the way..

Till they dozed off, having a noon-nap together      
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As always, once arriving Niseko,
we were always greeted by the great Mt. Yotei
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This winter, we stayed at Tabi-Tsumugi, a hotel for backpackers in Kutchan town

This place was fabulous
Cheap, clean, good master with great service
Washing machine with dryer (extra charges), clean kitchen to use, sharing shower room and toilet, any information about Niseko, free ride to Niseko mountains, etc, etc~

With extra 700yen, they provide a very nice Japanese-style breakfast too!

See more reviews at Trip Advisor Niseko Tabi-Tsumugi Backpackers 

The dining area~
Breakfast-time

After breakfast,
both play a little while in the room before going out for snow-day~

Ready to go~
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One play the sled
One play the tube

A sliding date

And a noon-nap together     
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The next day after breakfast..
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Scoop

Scoop
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Scoop
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Scoop
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Scoop

What a wonderful scooping snow-day
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And  a noon-nap together    
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Every single day on this trip (4 nights), we went to the onsen (hot spring) for a bath
Love the onsen especially onsen in the snow

Onsen we went
Yukoro ゆころ温泉
Yukokoro Tei 湯心亭温泉
Kutchan Onsen Hotel Yotei くっちゃん温泉ホテルようてい

It’s just one of the “wonder of life”

Sexy man getting ready for the wonder bath

Cold milk/yogurt after a hot hot bath
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On the last day,
After breakfast together

It was time to go home..
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Returning the rental car,
Hopped on to a bus

Saying goodbye to the snowland

It was time to part
It was time to bid farewell
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But, memories are always be within
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2015.02.03~2015.02.07
884 days old~888 days old
2歳5か月2日~2歳5か月5日