13 August 2008 Our Personal Fountain
Genbo has spent an awful lot of time in the water this summer. He’s shaping up to be quite a water-lover. First it was the vinyl pool on our balcony (which I’ll post pictures of later), then it escalated to the condo fountain (pictured below), and finally to the neighborhood community pool near us (again, pictures to come). He won’t even come out of the bath, he loves splashing and playing around in it so much.
Zoe, too, in just the past few weeks, has undergone a veritable phase change from a passive blob of baby-dom to an active toddler who feels quite at home playing with her brother and his friends (regardless of whether they might want her to).
Here are some shots of Genbo playing with Nao, his best friend in the building, while Zoe gamely participates.
They are building a new condo in the lot behind ours. The developers lied to everyone in our building, of course, saying that it would be a retail space of only a few storeys, but it’s a condo just as tall as ours (15 storeys). They just didn’t lie on paper, and the wheels of Japanese justice turn excruciatingly slowly, so it’s not worth it trying to do anything about it.
Pictures of Genbo in the same fountain last year are here.