The Car and Lobsters

On January 5th we purchased a new(to us) used car. This is the car that replaced the car that was in the accident. It is a Honda Life. In Japan it is called a Kei car. This means it is smaller, cheaper, and slower then normal cars. That is fine with us because it was in the price range that the insurance people gave us. Upon buying this car we were given additional gifts as apart of the ongoing New Year’s sales. We were offered to pick a meat out of 8 choices. I saw lobsters on the list and it sounded so good to Lane and I so that is what we picked. They told us the lobsters would be sent to our house and they would be alive. We were excited. Our car also wasn’t quiet ready to take home so they were going to delivery it to us the following Tuesday. Now the real question was: were the lobsters going to come with the car or what? When the car came there were no lobsters. Then about a week later they finally came. When I open the lobster box they didn’t move. I thought maybe they are dead. Then they started to wake up and move. Lane and I didn’t like this so we decided to give them away to our friends. We didn’t want to cook live lobsters. I enjoy eating them but not killing them. Our friends were very excited for this present of lobsters. They even showed some photos of the last time they cooked live lobsters. Although we didn’t eat them it was a neat experience to hold and play with live lobsters.

Katie and the lobster.

Koseki and the girls with the lobster.

Our new car. With Sophia in the drivers seat.

Yes, it is our new life.

Kids say the darnest things.

I had to post this even though it happen a couple of weeks ago. Sophia, my almost 3 year old, talks a mile a minute. That is not an exaggeration either. Not only does she not stop talking she says the funniest things.
Two weeks ago we were driving down to Tokyo to pick up Lane's mom from the airport. We were using a rental car that had a navigator in it. Every time we drove into a new Prefecture (state) the navigator would state which one we were in. While we were driving threw Tokyo the navigator came on and said something else that we had not heard before. So I asked Sophia what it said. She said back to me, "I think she told me to stop picking my nose mom." I could not believe she said that. I could not stop laughing. She knows I don't like her to do that and she thought the Navigator caught her red handed. Just so you know this Navigator is all in Japanese; so we truly didn't know what it said.
This picture was taken by a friend a couple of months ago, but it goes along with her funny personality.

Wig Time

We went to our friends house for dinner a few night ago and she had a white wig that she wore for Halloween. We decided to try it on Grace and Sophia. I think it looked pretty funny. What do you think?