I see the another class mate.. I say jonah wa?? he runs to get you.. I LOVE that I am NOT an embarrassment to you yet... as you come running over with a smile on your face.. then run off to play...

no freaking WONDER my mother in law was ALWAYS complaining about the customer service in the US.. as this doesn't EVEN begin to show all he did... to MAKE sure tad got the RIGHT shoe.. the best for his foot..
AT would have hugged him.. as I KNOW CRAZY ACE.. but I love these shoes that basically just look like converse.. but SO MUCH COOLER.. they were 300.. I asked him.. how about these.. he said.. a no go.. not good for tads foot.. the boring geox.. where good.. oh well.. i wouldn't have bought the other ones anyway.. as I have seen them online for MUCH less.. just wanted to know:)
second.. these are both our yours THIRD pair of shoes.. as we WALK.. I am SURE these will also go in the trash before we go:)
thats HOW much you are literally building that core!!!

I wish I had money coming out my ears.. I don't want to do japan with out you.. can WE PLEASE just have mom bring jelly to you.. STAY!!!!! you have just impressed me BEYOND believe.. you are a lot like mom.. you take things in stride.. YOU DONT SHOW YOUR SWEAT..... you read.. RESEARCH.. say things to me like
" try it see how your body feels.. how its makes you feel.. eat a balanced diet... STUDIES have shown"
not only in food.. but even being here in japan.. YOU HAVE SEEN AND DONE MORE THAN any other guest.. as you READ and look over the booklets they had out.. I personally get SO overwhelmed by all that jarble.. I want some one to just tell me.. but YOU have found A MILLION more things I want to do.. PLEASE DONT GO..

tad YOU love contact.. engaging.. touch.. as right up in georges face.. asking.. watching.. then even this morning.. you don't want to play DS without snugging up with jake.. as you see him in laying down listening to tunes... so you think SWEET spot to do my DS

as I step out to see remnants of two days ago.. I LOVE some days you don't get to do over:)
and lets SEE how long before it gets cleaned up.. as jourdan even said.. just shows they don't clean the FLOOR often..

jourdan making me laugh as she yells jake some FUNNY instructions.. DUDE.. if AT was here.. he would NOT be having it:)

I love that YOU know that this would TOTALLY be picture worthy for me.. as you say.. MOM take a picture.. which ALSO reminds me.. we have been TALKING about your up and coming dance.. all week long.. i have told you over and over.. how EXCITED i am.. as I have caught you in practice.. while passing thru the school..
YOU are nervous.. but i assure you.. NO ONE IS GOING TO BE looking at you.. they will all be looking at their loves..
DUDE ITS GOING TO ROCK!!

also we come home to see this bike RIGHT in the way.. tad you say.. HOW RUDE!!! WHY whY WHY would they do that..
what I want to know.. is WHY would you say this.. NO WAY would this have crossed your mind when we first got here .. RULE boy!!!!!

so its around 6 pm.. tad still moaning and groaning.. I think DUDE.. I am going to just GO back to the hospital.. as in my mind.. aren't there better more trained doctors at a hospital???
to really find.. its just a low key office.. BUT ENGLISH SPEAKING doctor.. so I get to REALLY tell him FOR MYSELF.. AS YOUR MOTHER.. everything that you have been doing.. what you have been saying.. eating.. etc.. etc...
WHOA THIS IS AWESOME.. as his english is good enough.. that when I lift truly to sit on the chair in the room.... he says.. MAMA..be careful.. we don't want dislocation in the shoulder.. DUDE.. DOCTOR.. you are so right WE DONT!! we REALLY don't.. as I just super glued her cut she has on the back of her head.. we DO NOT want to be dislocating ANYTHING!!!!!
so he continues to check out tad.. telling me.. japanese just WATCH high temperature.. no motrin.. NOT GOOD..
he smiles big about me wanting to check for appendicitis.. he talks to me about how many children I have.. as he sees the three.. but I tell him my 1st grader is out watching the cartoons..
I TELL him.. I know sick kids.. and THIS one has just been laid out.. HOT.. sleeping a TON. and saying under his ribs it hurts..
so he busts out the ultrasound!!!!!! you check out perfect!!!. he says.. just a bug.. and to just watch him.. NO MOTRIN.... just let his body work..

this all seems funny now.. as I am sitting here.. watching you 100 percent better..

jonah on the way home.. said mom can I help you.. I thought sure.. hold ozzy.. you were saying things like.. ozzy needs to lose a few pounds.. or I would take him.. and you would say.. NO let me try again.. I know a better way to hold him..
maybe when you are a parent someday.. you will look back on this.. and REALIZE.. HOW much this means.. HOW much you helped your mom.. you make life so much sweeter for me!!!!!!

so of course I keep you home from school.. you are still crazy hot to the touch.. I think DUDE.. I am taking you to the hospital.. as its a sunny day.. I just NEED another opinion.. as you keep saying it hurts.. right where your appendix is.. your not eating.. you are also SLEEPING EVERY SECOND.. you wake to want cold water.. which you are like MAMA MAMA MAMA I need water. even though its right by you.. you need me to help you drink it.........
SO with all this.. I think.. dude lets hit it.. truly/ozzy in good spirits.. NO rush.. just lets take it easy and walk down to the hospital...
get on the elevator.. good
while back out .. truly bumps here head on the stroller OF COURSE hits it JUST RIGHT!!!..crying the NO SOUND cry.. so you KNOW it hurts....
blood is dripping.. I look to find the source to see its not TOO bad.. but sort of looks like a stitch or two MIGHT be needed.. WHEN we were already on our way to the place that offers this kind of care.. whats adding one more thing to the bill:)
you shake it off by the door.. after comforting.. you walk the whole way to the hospital.. HAPPY to.. you LOVE an outing:)
I walk into what i was explained to was the hospital.. to NOT understand why they are telling me to WAIT.. mate mate..
I go next door thinking maybe that wasn't the building... to have them say yes hospital.. but NO.. NO not now..
YES CONFUSION.. now i am getting tired.. as DUDE where ELSE.. or HOW far else I am going to have to walk?????? plus I have a 1st grader that is going to be needing to be buzzed in soon:)
tears start to stream down my face as I feel LIKE SHIZ... as earlier while skyping with my mom.. to try and decided what to do with tad.. truly was standing on the chair.. as it tipped I thought ALL I need to make this BETTER it my child falling and cracking her head.. to then have it really happen 2 hours later.. I FEEL like ... I secreted to us..
the nurse lady ( what I figured out later is that was the hospital but it wasn't opened till 7 and she was just giving out vacations)
but she saw the tears .. and said mamma mamma its okay.. okay.. okay.. so soft so nice.. and it IS okay.. its BETTER than okay.. this is fine.. this is just the right of passage to being a MOM.. the BLESSING of being a mom......
so here comes an english speaking man.. as OF COURSE both places I have went into have immediately got on the phone to find an english speaking person to help:)
he then shows me ANOTHER hospital that will open at 3 and when I say show.. he literally had a guy take me and show me how to get there....
so its 130.. lets go home get jonah.. and NOW skype momsy to show her your wound and see what her opinion is:)
DUDE AT would FREAK if he knew all the fun we were having without him:)

out side the hospital.. with a bit of wind..

even in the cab.. tad you were saying I feel BETTER!!! we get home around 4..... at around 6..... you have upchucked.. I think due to the monavie you pounded.. I should have know better as.. its not a mild drink.. but you helped yourself...
what was SO cute.. is as you were RUNNING to the bathroom.. you covered your mouth.. as YOU are AWESOME at always making it.. but it just came out and SPRAYED everything.. it was awesome.. as at least I knew EVERY place it hit.. as it was monavie:)
dark red....
but I put you in the bath.. lucky ozzy sleeping.. truly and jonah watching a movie.. so I can do it with out telling everyone to step off.......
but you keep calling me.. mama mama.. MAMA MAMA.. I didn't mean to.. bless your heart.. I KNOW you didn't mean to.. that is why.. I said.. DONT WORRY.. its okay OVER and over while it was happening.. as I KNEW you had tried SO hard.. don't feel bad NO biggie....

with your temp still up.. I realize.. dude I am GOING to have to take you to the doctors.. or I would be able to rest.. I have to know.. its just a bug and nothing more.. WHICH HONESTLY.. going to the doctors here.. isn't MUCH comfort.. I simply think they suck.. I think they are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY behind in the medical field.. as their exams are a tap here.. a listen here... all while sitting straight up in a chair.....
but never the less.. its a step above what i can see or feel.. I suppose a second opinion..
but its raining.. I have FOUR awesome sets short legs:)
LUCKLY its NOT cold.. just wet.. jonah is in first grade.. HERE that is an age appropriate to be left in apt..or even if HE felt comfortable go to the train station on his own..... plus.. you want to stay behind.. you tell me the rules.. i have told you ..
don't leave
dont buzz anyone in.. NO MATTER WHO you think they are:) which actually we both know.. if I for got my keys.. i could get you to buzz me in:)

anyway we head out.. the BEST part.. is I LITERALLY got there at 631..... the nurse lady is trying to tell me.. 630 is the closing time..
DUDE.. BIZ.. I dont CARE what TIME YOU CLOSE.. I KNOW OF NO OTHER PLACE TO GO.. I will keep giving you this BLANK stare.. until you STOP rambling off.. your japanese .. that I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING... so lets play this game.. I give BLANK stare.. WHILE you keeping telling me.. I am ONE minute past doctors seeing times.. WHICH I CAN HEAR that weak cheese doctor is STILL here..
besides.. tad and truly are already in their slippers sitting.. I am just trying to PHONE ANYONE that speaks both languages to tell them tads symptoms.. as I can say.. "hurt" "HOT" but shouldn't he get a bit more than that?????????
thank goodness for chiharu.. WHO later made me feel better as she said she doesn't much like that nurse lady.. she is always rude.... as THIS whole time.. the few times I have gone there.. i have thought.. MEAN lady.. and when I say MEAN JAPANESE LADY.. HONESTLY.. thats like saying.. NICE good customer service in the states.. still not to bad!!!!
when things get a bit tricky.. I tell my kids.. your CORE.. you are building YOUR CORE.. truly.. YOU have SO build your CORE while being here!!!!!!!

this is what I am talking about.. no complaining going on.. just tad in the front playing DS.. truly sleeping..ozzy in the pack.. jonah HELPING MOM!! assuring me.. i can do it..

seriously best bullet train ride ever.. I suppose you all were JUST that tired.. blessing that was:)

so we get to the train station.. TAD is STILL sleeping.. just KO.... he is burning UP!! I give him so motrin.. then we head up to find which line to get on..
its always a been tense.. as we are trying to pick which line to stand in between cars 1 -5 as they are the open seating area... and we OF COURSE have system or a liking of what area we like.. car 3 is smoking.. so of course.. STAY far away from that end:) and with stroller.. getting the back so it can slide right in.. with ALSO trying to find 3/3 seat so we can flip them..... you get the idea...
WELL here she comes.. we start scanning the windows to see ahead of time.. if its going to be hard.. rushing??
AT literally rushes on.. while I am just making sure the three of us GET on.. as I am holding ozzy while boarding the stroller with tad/truly...
AT is doing his best.... as DUDE.. he CAN NOT have this train leave with him on it.. and HE can NOT just throw me on WITHOUT getting us seats.. he KNOWS its the LEAST he can do.. why sending me home alone.....
all the while having to LITERALLY DO IT in a minute or less.. THERE will be no.. HEY I have to get off this train.. OR HOLD THE DOOR.. nonsense going on.. japan does NOT do nonsense..
...
task accomplished we settle.. AT calls a few times.. saying DUDE I felt so bad.. I assure him all is well... as i HAVE jonah.. not only do i have jonah.. but I have jonah WHO always.. steps it up when your gone.. he JUST KNOWS.... its necessary !!!!
tad breaks into a sweat DRENCHING the seat.. that is RELIVING.. i change your clothes when you wake up.. you are a NEW little boy.. saying i am ALL better:) i am not sick anymore..

so we are walking around the mall.. one to get AT a hat he HAS to have one in order to cover his face on the train/plane to fall asleep ( as he is leaving to korea from here).. before I even udder a word..he assures me..hat is going in the trash.. before he gets home... as WHAT the teenage looking butt is that??? but looking at these.. i suppose we both picked butt.. but I actually was serious about mine:)
ANYWAYS we are walking around.. trying to get a feel for WHAT we should do.. tad woke up with a temperature.. he was on the mend then took a turn.. the DRASTIC change of whether japan spits out DOES NOT help.. well IMO.... who's body likes to be hot cold hot cold.. dry wet dry wet dry wet dry wet....... its never ending...
SO as tad lay there KO.......
the plan has always been.. AT gone.. jourdan/jake staying behind to do things we have already seen and done.. nara/buddha/temples...
so I start thinking... I just cant push tad.... he needs to go home....... AAAAAHHHHHHH but we came ALL the way here to get dressed up from head to TOE.. make up and all geisha like... the BEST PHOTO OP EVER!!!!!! to come to this point.. of time to tap out!!!
so jourdan/jake buy all sorts of rain gear to plow thru the sight seeing.. WE head down stairs to catch a cab so AT can put us on the bullet........
i am STILL bummed about missing out on that.. but DUDE.. my fear was you fever taking a REAL TURN and body fluids deciding to join this party..... THEN me still having to forge ahead on the 3 hour bullet train.. they get off to catch a cab. which SOUNDS easy enough... but then again... .. alot of walking/ pulling/ carrying/ finding /going on:)
you are all just little..

I thought you were outside the door while we were trying to make it out the door.. to come out to see you running around in your slippers:)

to me.. I look at this and remember just walking around in circles.. there were a lot of cool things to see.. while trying to focus and find a few items to keep you a bit warmer.. or more.. a change of clothes in case you got too wet tomorrow... as YOU GUESSED it.. kyoto wants to give us RAIN.. for the second TIME we try to hit you up nice!!!! .. and keep an eye on you all..... we all were beat!!! we ended with a nice grocery stop finding an awesome bench to eat some yummy finds:)

so with ozzy ZOCKED out!! we still have two hours before I will be able to DEMAND you all hit it!!!
so after jourdan/jake get back from checking out the shopping they give us the low down..
while walking to the elevator we see some boys horsing around.. WHY you feel the need to run down there and show them your skills??? makes me smile.. also its fun to pretend what you are saying is correct.. as you tell me.. they are the same guys you have seen on TV that do the obstacle course with cameras.. SO HOW neat for you to be showing the "TV stars " what you can do!!!!!!
then TRULY not quite understanding what is going on.. PLUS tired.. delirious .. YELLING I save you jonah!!!!

i have come to EXPECT so much out of you both.. its really is SUCH an awesome feeling to have not one.. but TWO power players:)
we say you are thirsty...well so am i.. I give you money and tell you to go to the vending machine.. I GIVE YOU TWO requests..
3 waters for me..
NO pop for you.. and drink with caps..
you come back to get an A+

now it has been MY experience any where outside of tokyo.. japanese are CRAZY SUPER nice.. are they nice in tokyo.. FOR SURE... but sometimes.. it almost feels like they are tolerant..
but heres what I mean..
our cab pulls up to the hotel.. to see this huge group right there waiting for transportation..
they see me jump out.. with arms OBVIOUSLY full.. I have this pack that has been traveling ALL day:)
a cute guy says.. hello.. where are you from.. I always say utah.. as 9 times out of 10 if they speak this good of english... they are going to know right off the get go.. what UTAH is KNOWN for..
and TRUE to form.. he says..
utah.. MORMON.. I KNOW.. I say.. DING!!!
what is SO cute.. is they all are going crazy.. seeing you.. all.. YES you are ALL mine!!! ALL MINE!!!
then they start snapping pictures..
LUCKLY.. jourdan/jake come up in their cab.. as DUDE WE TAKING pictures.. I LOVE the pictures..
you go ahead take pictures of us.. i want pictures of you..


i actually don't think they were all japanese.. but just a sweet touring group.. as WHO doesn't want to see kyoto.. another fun thing about hitting all these sites.. you SEE and hear SO many different cultures:)

here we come kyoto!!! we's going to play so I THOUGHT!!! mother nature.. you's making me MAD!!!
I loved this.. as JONAH.. you TOTALLY step it up. 50 steps when AT is gone.. you REALLY just constantly say.. you want me to help?? here let me hold ozzy for you..
well ozzy has some SERIOUS strong power right now.. as he has been in my arms.. and IS WANTING some ground.. I SWEAR i think I heard him say.. YO YO YO MO.. I haven't worked out ALL day!!!!

AT puts us on the bullet to go 2 hours back to kyoto.. to our hotel.. he will meet up with us after some monavie:)

HOW many TIMES.. do I NEED to get burned!!! before I realize.. I must.. MUST plan for any type of FETCHING weather.. as just yesterday we were sweating!!!! i MEAN SWEATING 5 hours NORTH.. to come 5 hours south to RAIN!!!! no sun... at least it was in the 70's but still.. just MAKES sight seeing SUCK!!! come ON..

do I need to do this day again.. maybe not so much.. are we glad we went... FOR SURE.. as peace.. it really is all about the PEACE..