Well, this year hubby and I had several sessions of hanami, unlike last year when I went for hanami maybe once - just before Humaidi was born. Yes, yes, I know, I didn't even post an entry on Humaidi's first birthday. For the record - we had a quiet celebration - went out for hanami in Sumida Park, then went to New Otani Hotel Japanese garden followed by dinner at Sweets Paradise in Ginza. Koseki-san, the policeman who visit us often gave him a Pajero Dakar Rally Fontenay Mighty Vehicle - a huge toy which Huzaifah claimed to be his and seldom let Humaidi as much as touch it.
- Humaidi now weighs about 9.5kg, and is 74cm in height.
- Has 6 teeth - is really good at chewing food and currently eats more rice than porridge.
- Could not walk unaided as yet, but loves 'cruising' along the furniture and is capable of 'mengesot' quite fast.
- Like Huzaifah, Humaidi is not fond of using a proper walker, instead prefers holding onto Ibu's leg/kain sarung as a method of training to walk.
- Unlike Huzaifah who loves to 'explore' stuff on his own and refused to be held for a long period of time, Humaidi is calmer and doesn't mind sitting in one place while studying a toy in various ways (which often include 'tasting' it)
- He has rather unruly curly hair and bright shining eyes which slint Nihonjin-like everytime he laughs hard
- Most people find it difficult to tell whether he looks more like Ibu or Ayah, so I usually tell them that he takes after Kimura sensei who helped me gave birth to him, hihihi...
Back to our hanami story - we didn't go to anywhere too far for it. Sumida Park is not that far and there's a small park lined with sakura about two minutes by foot from our place. Sumida Park is a popular hanami spot - and people were there from early morning until late night, making it quite smelly what with all the 'Jepun mabuk' around... During one outing, a drunk ojiichan insisted on talking to me while I was snapping some sakura photos. I feigned ignorance at speaking Nihonggo because I could not stand his smell and did not want to encourage him to keep on chatting. But he was singing praises for gaijin - how he loves having a gaijin as his son-in-law, how he loves making business with gaijin and all - so I just smiled for a while and agreed to take a photo together when he asked and quickly left him after that. (Hubby said that while many Japanese tend to think of gaijin as nuisance, sometimes they don't realize that Nihonjin could be a nuisance too to gaijin... Ouch!)
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