Carnival

Yesterday was the Co-op Preschool Spring Carnival.  It was a lot of fun.  The weather wasn't the best, so I hope they made enough money to make it worthwhile for everyone.  Of course, the stars of the show were the kid friendly folks, like Square Bob and Dora.

I had signed up to do the pony races.  William really got into it.  He loved 'riding' the ponies, and got practice in losing, as there were older kids racing, as well.  I got to do the starting trumpet sound, and 'call' the race.  William's friend, Grace and here sister, Mary got into it, as well.  The white horse with the blue hair was the 'princess pony' and Grace braided it's hair.  It was funny.

Tim was a great dad and watched William the whole time.  He helped with the clean-up as well.  They had to roll up all the bouncy inflatable houses, and big guys are needed for things like that.

Before we headed out, we got a call from Noel on the computer.  We love Skype or iChat, as they allow us to see people back home.  We chatted with Thayer, who showed us his lego invention, and then Tim's sister, Sandy.  She had waited until we were online to open the birthday gift we'd sent her.  I think it was because we had to explain what they were.  We'd gotten her 2 DVDs of Animusic.  Basically, they took music and made funky 3-D animations of drum sets, etc. and then you 'see' the music being played.  William loves watching it.  You can also select other camera angles to watch it from.  We also got Sandy the latest craze here in Japan.  It's an electronic bubble wrap popper.  It is on a keychain and you 'pop' the bubbles, and it makes the sound.  William's one talks to you occasionally.  If you set it down, it says something in Japanese.  It's kind of a cool stress reliever.  

William thinks it's great being able to see his cousins and folks back home.  He usually just wants to be silly in front of the camera, however.  

We miss folks back home, and Tim misses good beer...  He was looking longingly at a kegerator yesterday.  I wanted to know where he could get kegs from.  Tim now has a new 'project!'  He's now searching out where we could get a keg at.  We just need a house large enough for all of our projects...