Big Bicycle

Not too long ago Sasha mastered the tricycle. However, to everybody's surprise, last week at his cousin's house Sasha tried on his cousin's big bicycle, the one that has two smaller tires on the sides, and was able to ride it as if he had been riding the bicycle forever. The bicycle itself was bigger than Sasha so it was kind of funny to see him on it. What most impressive was Sasha's lower body strength to push the pedals to move the bicycle. His coordination was so good that he rode the bicycle without bumping left or right.

Nursery

Sasha has just started his nursery year. He is definitely more mature than previous year and first day went by without a cry. He, in fact, seems glad that he is back in school after a long summer break.

Dancing Fountain

We came across a dancing fountain while at Sunshine City in Ikebukuro...and that has been Sasha's only destination these days. We have been taking Sasha to go see the dancing fountain everyday and spending a couple hours just looking at the fountain. While at it, Sasha likes to dance along, mostly jumping and swinging from side to side. The fountain itself is pretty amazing, at one point while it dances to the music, the water rises up to about 8 meters high.

Train

Sasha is in love with the rail transportation in Tokyo. Everyday he asks me whether we are going to ride the train. Whenever we are walking toward the train station Sasha would get excited. He even has mastered the art of sleeping in the train.

Multiple Languages

Sasha has shown a remarkable progress in his multiple language acquisition. He is now able to speak English, Indonesian and Japanese fluently. Sasha can switch languages easily, depends on who he is talking to. Sasha can talk in English to me and then immediately switch to Japanese to talk to my husband. Being in Japan has helped his listening skill as well. Sasha learned new words by listening to his surroundings. My husband often told me how he was amazed at Sasha's newly acquired vocabularies.

Shinjuku

We had been to Shinjuku couple of times when we were here in Tokyo a few months ago back in March. At the time, we often passed a restaurant where there was a giant crab model hanging on top of a restaurant in Shinjuku area. Yesterday were our third day here in Tokyo and we decided to go to Shinjuku. Right after we stepped out of the Shinjuku train station, onto the street in front of the Lumine exit, Sasha said to me: "Mama, Sasha wants to see big crab." I was totally surprised to hear that since it had been approximately four months ago that we went to Shinjuku and yet Sasha still remembered that giant crab.