On January 31, 2012 there were three little boys born at Sun Maternity Clinic. Every couple of months us mums try to get all the boys together. And since January was birthday month we decided to do a mini pre-birthday lunch and play date.
We went to Bubby's for lunch, which is a very family and kid friendly restaurant in Yokohama. (Sorry, we were all busy feeding the boys and didn't get any pictures!) Usually we try to let the boys play a bit and often we go to a free play area, but since it was their birthday we went to the Bornelund play area (you have to pay!). That's where we got some pictures.
At Bornelund there's an area that is for babies (0-18 months) and then the rest of the kids. We stayed in the baby area.
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| The ball pit! |
The ball pit was a HUGE hit with Touma. The balls were a bit bigger than the average ball pit, which was perfect for our little guys.
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| Close up of the handsome boy. :-) |
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| Touma and Taichi. Boy was it hard to get more than one kid in a picture at a time. |
The novelty of the ball pit did not end with the balls themselves. It was the fact that you could climb out of it on your own that also appealed to the boys. Whereas Taichi usually tried to turn around and safely get out... Touma generally tried to go head first. Always the danger boy!!
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| Touma 2 joins in the fun! And the difficulty of wrangling 3 boys begins. |
Two of the little boys are called Touma in this group. Touma Yamamori (our Touma) is actually the oldest of the three. Then comes Touma Mori (Touma 2 for the purpose of this post), who was born a few hours later. And last comes Taichi still a few hours after Touma 2. Taichi is in the grey shirt and Touma 2 is in the black shirt. On our walk over to the play center, Touma 2 fell asleep, which is why he's not in the previous pictures.
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| The bead coaster! |
I have no idea what these things are called, but in Japan they are called bead coasters. I think it's a pretty fitting name really. Touma likes them a lot. The best thing about them is that the beads spin... and he will sit and spin the beads for quite awhile before he gets bored and moves on to something else.
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| Double Toumas!! |
Near the end it was just a heap of kids grabbing each other (and the toys).
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| Another attempt at all three boys... this time it was fairly successful. |
The toy Touma is holding was the biggest hit. ALL of the boys wanted it and were grabbing it from each other. It just happens that in this picture our Touma has it!
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| Three boys and two mommies! |
There wasn't anyone around to take a picture, so Sachi took a picture of all the boys and Chi-chan and me. Touma is barely peeking over his stroller muff, but you can kind of see him. It was a great day and all the boys were very tired (as were the moms!) after this day. Happy Birthday, boys!
