It's July and it's hot.

We're experiencing a pretty rainless rainy season here in Tokyo. Usually it rains a lot during the summer rainy season, and then all of a sudden becomes bright and unbearably hot. We're already at that point, without having ended the offical rainy season...! I guess that means more sun and heat than usual...

Anyway, things have been going fine here. Rhianna is doing great as usual, and changing every day. She loves to smile and laugh, and and enjoys walking as much as she can. She especially loves to wave at people while sitting on dad's shoulders and being walked around. Sales people in department stores love this! Recently, Rhianna walks up to her dad and puts her hands up, asking to be carried. And while she used to be only held, now she puts her arms around the holder's neck and actually holds on. We bought her a tricycle with a push handle, almost like a stroller, and she really loves to be pushed around our neighborhood. Still, recently she also likes even more to walk alongside it while it's being pushed by dad.

Rhianna caught a cold last week, which is a rarity for her (maybe her first or possibly second real cold ever). She got a 102 degree fever, and we actually brought her to the local St. Lukes hospital late at night just in case. Luckily, she had her appetite and didnt have any problems with dehydration, so they just sent us home with a little cough medicine. No problems since then.

Mom had been doing a great job with her company, and has been really selling a lot. She enjoys her web-shop, and gets great reviews from people who purchase from her site. Every day she gets orders from people all over Japan, from Hokkaido, in the North, to Okinawa, in the South. She then prepares their orders from her inventory of imported items, and sends it out the next day. A shipping agent visits our apartment every night and usually picks up several packages for shipment. It keesp Shinako really busy (not to mention watching after Rhianna while dad is out at work), but even still she has managed to make a great business, and one of the more highly ranked baby clothing stores on the Rakuten Ichiba website that she uses.

Here are a bunch of pictures from over the past month!

Hanging out with Ronald McDonald

Shinako, Rhianna, and John Gump (Those are not my feet, by the way)

Eating cake!

Eating Cake

Eating cake!!!!

At the Odaiba Beach with mom and dad


Rhianna at the beach

Rhianna at the beach

Rhianna and mom

Rhianna and mom

At the beach

Rhianna's Wheels

Sitting on dad at Tokyo Station

Out for Yakiniku Dinner in Ginza

Ready to go out


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