It's been a long, long time since you went to school, huh? Long, long time.

Look at this, she is already a 1st grader.

Sarah's got her backpack, got her mask. Got her cute smile under there.

Bye! Bye guys!

I think this is her second day of school since school started and she is only there for 10 minutes. But at least she is going.

She is growing up too fast.

Sarah is going to school, for a little short time, but she still gets to go so she is excited!

Putting on her shoes.

Is this fun?

You can hold your backpack if you want. You gotta leave your mask on though.

Oh, I'm sweating, sweating.

So, what happened Sarah?

Well, I learned how to do "Tsu"

Like in katakana/hiragana? Yeah. WOW!

Round 2 for mommy!

Round 2 for mommy. Alright girls, have a good day. Not even a day of school.

Have a good moment of school.

Ok, now I go back with Becca and Anna. Three different kids, three different times. Oh my!

Get him dude! Get him!

Yes!

How was school guys? Good. Good.

And look what Mommy got from the neighbors.

Those are beautiful huh? Right from his garden.

He is the nicest neighbor ever!

So what did you do at school, Miss Milk Mustache. Ha Ha!

What did you do? I talked with my teacher for 10 minutes or 20.

Did you get more homework? A lot of kanji tests.

Joey came over to help water our flowers.

It's cold water though.

Are you trying to get Dada? Are you trying to get Dada? You drink it?

Ahhhhh!

Anna, what are we going to go do? We are going by the Tama river to get some rocks for our craft.

Oh fun!

On the steps please.

Some days we just gotta get out of the house huh Becca? Yep.

We are finding rocks. We are going to paint them for a craft, huh Sarah? Yep.

This has become a new favorite thing to do, just to get out of the house. Come down and enjoy a little time outside.

I found a rock. You got a rock?

And I gotta throw it in. You're going to throw it in? Big throw!

Whoa! You want me to throw one?

What are you going to do with all these rocks Sarah? We are going to make Minecraft.

You are going to make Minecraft? Yep!

Like what kind of Minecraft? Like our Minecraft, we're gonna make a chicken, and egg and seeds.

Oh cool. Bye! I'll see you in a little bit because I'm going to go get rocks.

Ok, go get them!

Awww, oh my!!

Hi Anna! Hi Daddy!

Mommy and Joshua over there, Anna over there, and Becca way over here.

Everyone is spread out! And then there's Sarah. Hi Sarah! She is right here. Yep.

Ok, lets go!

We are having a meeting right now!

Are you not taking those? We are. Ok, then put them away, lets go!

Lets make piles of it so we know.

On the outside by your balcony? Yep. Can we like stay out there a little bit longer?

A little bit then you guys have to take a bath. Ok.

My camera got kicked out of my backpack and now it is full of rocks!

Good training for daddy. Good way to loose some weight. Some of this quarantine weight.

How is that Anna? Is it heavy? Um hum. Just like a baby.

Just like a baby. About as heavy as you are probably.

No. No?

Whoa ho. That sounded like it cracked!

Are we sorting our rocks? Yep!

Look, this is my bed. Oh, that is going to be the bed for the house?

This is going to be a moo moo cow. Because it looks like a moo moo cow.

Alright, lunch time!

One thing that has been super special with everybody home is having meals together. That part has been really nice.

We need to get the conclusion to the Minecraft rock story.

Ok, lets pray. Tada!

Painting rocks.

Painting rocks! The moment has arrived!

Have you decided what each one of them is going to be? Yep, yep.

Look at this.

Looks fun! Try not to paint yourself.

I need to get paint.

Cool! With my own bed.

A baby in a bed. Aweee So cute!!

What are we working on here Sarah?

My Japanese homework! Your Japanese homework? Alright.

There. Reutter, Sarah.

Then after this page we will be done for today, ok? With math.

The kids got a lot done this morning. Ruth was working with them a lot.

And now they are getting bored and it's just about lunch time.

So now things really get interesting.

So we are going to send it. Save it as scavenger hunt.

Ohhh, putting together a picture scavenger hunt huh?

Ok, and mommy is going to send it for Aunt Debbie, Aunt Silvia and Aunt Pri.

So all of them are going to do it? Maybe.

We are trying to count all the cars that Joshua has.

Yep, and this is a broken one.

Look at all the...there is still so much stuff in there dude! What in the world!

We made it through the day, we had a good day and what better way to finish the day.. Hey, foot out of the popcorn!

Then having some popcorn with the family and watching the newest Life in Japan.

Three, two, one! Here we go!

This right here is my happy place. I love to come out here and just refresh. Do you have a happy place?

Is there a place close by that you can go to and it's like an escape? A place of rest. A refuge.

You guys were out when it started to rain?

Yes! When we were going it was not raining and then it started to rain so hard!

And it rained almost the whole way!

Oh my goodness!

It's time for a new rug here, huh? Yes!

Becca get the broom and sweep this over there.

Watch out, move Joshua.

Anna the videographer.

Oh, I like this!

The "Annaographer".

More?

Here, I can pull it. Wait, wait Joshua, not yet!

We are going to pull this in.

Thank you Anna.

Stop Sarah. Are we giving it the test? The lay on the floor on the rug test?

Snow test.

It's Sunday, Sunday, Sunday which means we have church. Church!

And then we are going to go out so mommy can bake some things at the coffee shop and have some special time together, huh?

Pizza at the coffee shop! Yum!

"So where I was really struggling to read, this person was as a child just reading things really quickly."

Your sister.

"And right away, what do I do? I start comparing myself to this other student, and I feel terrible."

Alright today we came to the coffee shop so mommy can bake.

Ruth is doing her baking magic here. Butter.

And over here we are having pepperoni pizza, oh yeah!

Becca is serenading us with one of the songs that she's learned.

And Sarah's dancing? So nice Sarah. Very nice.

I need some different tools. Like what?

Camera, camera. What dude?

I got this. Oh yeah, you sure do, don't you.

I got a popsicle. Popsicle? Thats cool.

In the last video I was trying to find a rollie pollie and say hi. Oh, are you? Ok.

Oh you found one already.

He tried to get off. I'll bet. He wants to go back to his home.

I'm excited about this. Yeah!

I think Ruth is relieving stress. Hahaha.

The edges are all cut and now we are going to sand this puppy down.

Sand this puppy down? Sand the puppy down.

Maybe sand the Rollie Pollie down.

So we are driving to the immigration office. We got word that our visa renewals came in.

But we don't know how long they are for - 1 year, 3 years, 5 years we are hoping.

We'll see. It's going to be a big surprise.