日本からの小包 package from Japan

 昨日、日本から小包が届き、私は速攻上機嫌♪　いくつになっても贈り物は嬉しいね

 Yesterday, a small package arrived from Japan. It's always nice to receive a gift package.

アップアップな日々 busy days

相変わらず、仕事、育児、家事、妊娠と自分でも欲張りすぎたなと思いながらアップアップしながらこの記録的な猛暑に耐えてます。（ってエアコンガンガンつけて、アイスを頻繁に食べていたり…）今年は４０度を超える日が多くて、妊婦には辛い〜　日本程湿気がないのが唯一の救いだけど、暑がりの我々親子は果たして日本の夏大丈夫なのかな、まだまだ先の心配をしてみたり…　

As always, juggling work, parenthood, house-chores, and pregnancy hasn't been easy for me, and i am taking one day at a time while enduring this crazy heatwave... with A/C and ice cream. This hot summer is a little too much for this prego, although I cannot imagine how things are in very-humid Japan. As much as I want to go back, I am not looking forward staying there one summer in the near future! Akari gets sweaty too easily too... poor thing.

daily findings :: wooden toys by PlanToys

ランチにお呼ばれした友達のウチにあった木馬に一目惚れ。

I saw this wooden horse when we went over to a friend's house of lunch other day, and I fell in love with the design!  

my work :: ピンバッジのイラスト pin button illustration

もうすぐ週末〜！ 週末から夏日和で３０度の日が続くのはあまり嬉しくないけど、明日はチビのプールデビュー予定☆　…どうなることやら。

さて、これは年初め頃の作品ですが、初めてのイラストの仕事だったので、すごく嬉しかったです。また、この手の仕事入ってきますよーに!!

Happy Friday!! It's going to be HOT this coming week and I'm not too happy about it... :( Tomorrow will be the first time to take Akari to a pool. We'll see how she would react!

Anyway, here is my latest work (although it was done earlier this year). It was fun project for sure! Hoping to get work on more similar projects in the future!!

メモリアルデイの週末 Memorial day weekend

アメリカの五月の最後の週末は、メモリアルデイのため連休。義理姉宅でメモリアルデイらしくバーベキューを楽しんできました。明佳梨はバーベキューとビールの代わりに、牛乳（卒乳したよ！）とちょっとハワイアンブレッド〜　このハワイアンブレッド、甘いからがっついて食べてた…

For the Memorial day weekend, we enjoyed BBQ at the sister-in-law's house. Akari loved Hawaiian bread and milk (now she is weaned off!) at the BBQ too!

金曜日に私の不注意で、生まれて初めて親子共にERを経験。抜けた肘がまだ痛いわ、風邪で咳と鼻水が止まらないわで、かなり辛いのかずっと私にべったりで機嫌が悪かったのが嘘の様な瞬間…　逆に大事を取って週末籠っていたら、ず〜っとピーピーとべったりだったんだろうなと思うと、思い切って家を出てよかったあ。

On Friday before the weekend, we both were at ER for the first time for A's dislocated elbow (my careless mistake...). Even though everything got checked out okay, poor thing is that her arm was still hurting and she was not feeling the best due to cold (lots of running nose and coughing which still continues). But seeing A having fun with family made me glad to get out the house despite my concern. If we stayed at home, she was probably clingy and whiny for the whole weekend...