genius

Last week, Taiyo discovered a smearing technique by dubbing wet hands over drawing in the window. I swear the actual art work on the door at SOY is more interesting than this picture. You probably know some people who think their kids' art works are ones by a genius. Oh, yes, I'm one of those.

Taiyo can sing ABCs to the end, so we sing it about 50 times a day, often when we are walking around outside.

When we went back to Cafe Petisco on East Broadway, which is one of Taiyo's favorite places, he headed right to the side table to look for some reading material, sat down next to the lamp where he could get a good light, opened the newspaper and read. For a long time. He kept making some ruffling noise with the paper also. He looked really serious. The first section he was 'reading' was The Dining section, of course. Oh, yes, the girl next to us thought it was the cutest thing. It was.

Last sunday was Karin's 3rd Birthday party which we couldn't miss. We hadn't seen her for over two months, and when Taiyo stormed into their apartment he stood right in front of her face to face, and uttered, "Karin doko da (where's Karin)?" He also had never seen her so dolled up. Taiyo then tried to hug her but she was a bit shy this time. Later in front of her baby sized cakes he stood next to her like an old man with his hands behind him. And the party was so cute and caotic and wonderful, with 8 small people jumping, running, screaming, fighting over the toys, laughing and staff. Maybe it's good that he doesn't have too many friends his age, because we don't have to do too many of these crazy parties.