After several very trying days, Emily was very cheery and cooperative from the word go. First things she said were 'Mummy's name is Alison, Daddy's name is Nicholas, my name Emily Robinson, I am 2 years old, Isy is two years old too'.
We were due to go with Jo and Bettina and children over to Odaiba, so that we could introduce Isy to Mamatoko kids cafe. Emily and I joined up with Jo, Isy and Cooper in Shibaura and we rode the monorail across to the island together. As the mall doesn't open until 11am we hung out in the cavernous new Starbucks for a while first. The girls looked really grown up having their drink and snack on the big chairs.
They were totally crazy together. It was so sweet the way they were interacting, but I did worry how the other cafe users were taking their ceaseless running around and excited squealing. Once the doors into the mall were thrown open we swiftly made our way to the more child-friendly Mamatoko, with Bettina and Tim arriving just as we did so.
The three of them had a lovely time playing for a while, then we decided to bite the bullet and have lunch. I am used to Emily not eating well when out now, so she didn't do any worse than I expected. I think that as soon as they had enough to satisfy their hunger they just wanted to carry on having fun, even to the extent of refusing icecream and chocolate sauce! Predictably, there were many protestations as we prised them away to start making our way home. Emily and I went back on the monorail on our own as Jo wanted to shop a little. We made it back to the apartment at 2.30, and I put Emily straight to bed. Inevitably, it was a very late evening because she didn't wake until 4pm.
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