June 19th - Japanese M&M's and Mario

Most mornings, i have been able to, through, iChat video, see and talk to Trace! (Thank you technology.) This morning was particularly fun as he started asking what I was bringing back from Japan for him. He said are you bringing lots of Mario and I said yes. Ironically, I can't find much Mario anywhere in Japan. A few figurines and a couple of t-shirts, but you can get them anywhere and the t-shirts cost about $50. Nintendo is huge, lots of DSLites, but it seems their heart is for anything Hello Kitty and Pokemon. Go figure. So I am probably going to have to buy some stuff when I am back in New York. Again go figure.

In addition to Mario stuff, Trace wants candy, so I bought him some Japanese, M&Ms. He was so excited that he want to have some immediately. I pretended to throw them at the computer camera and when I did, Craig stood behind him and threw some M&M's so it looked like they were coming from me. Trace had such a good time with this and it really looked like they were coming from the computer. He then tried to throw something back at me, my odometer, and didn't understand why it wouldn't go through. We told him things could only go one way. Too funny. Thank goodness kids are so stupid ;-)