Senior Pictures

I debated whether I really wanted to show these pictures on my blog or not. Leiya sent us her senior picture last week and I am as proud as can be about my sweet daughter. In Japan there are no such things as senior pictures. I think Takumi's high school published a high school journal and he is somewhere in one of the class pictures but that is it. A very unsmiling, stiff school uniformed, unflatterning snapshot of all the kids.

Actually Leiya didn't really see the need to go through the rigamarole of getting a formal senior picture taken, but I wanted her to do this and she complied. For fear of being labeled "oya-baka", a doting child-centered parent, I'm displaying Leiya's senior picture.

And worse, (I don't know what you could call me) here is a picture of my own senior picture! You can think of it as comedy. I decided that enough friends and family visit this blog and might get a laugh at the mother-daughter resemblence and while I might pull out Leiya's senior picture from my wallet to show people in the next few months, I'm certainly not going to carry around my senior picture to show people. Back in the drawer this goes!