What a summer it has been. Hot. Humid. And lots of experiences. Apart from what I have being writing about during the summer, we have been to a firework festival, visited a waterfall where my son got to try his hand on fishing for the first time (fishing for fish but also fishing for noodles
One summer project I had been planning for my son and me this year was to create movies together. Since my son loves LEGO and Star Wars, I thought they would make an excellent theme for trying our hands on some stop motion movies. We started out easy, I downloaded a stop-motion app to the
We have come to the next chapter in our Star Wars themed household – building a space ship. As it happened, we got a delivery in a big big cardboard box, so big that we felt that it would have been a great shame and waste not to play with it before folding it up
We have been living in Fukuoka for five years now, and for my part it is difficult to believe how quick it has been. Our son turned six last Friday, and thinking back, looking at old photos, it truly feels like only yesterday we came here just in time for his first birthday. Now he
The other afternoon, after snack time, my son suddenly turned to me and said that he would make a surprise. You can be in the kitchen dad, but don’t look, he said. Promise that you don’t look. So while I was preparing dinner I could see him in the corner of my eye working intensely
During our few days in Tokyo together with family from Sweden we had the chance to experience two very different sides of Japan – big Tokyo attractions and a small countryside ryokan. For our son, experiencing Tokyo Sky Tree and Disney Land for the first time was as exciting as anything could be. And doing
With the Japanese school year coming to an end and Swedish family coming to Japan to visit, our little family made a trip to Tokyo to meet them. But before seeing our relatives, we visited the world of Star Wars! As it happens, there was a Star Wars pop-up store in Ginza that I had
It was six months ago that I last wrote about our bedtime dino-storytelling, and it has continued since then, every night. The dino-cast has expanded slightly, but after New Year there has been a dramatic change in the direction this never-ending story is heading and I thought that was worth a few words. When I