2Y1M 21W0D まなちゃん Mana chan

昨日はまなちゃんに会いに東京へ。まなちゃんのママのふみえさんとは、アラタ妊娠中から顔を出しているインターネットの子育てサイトで知り合った。このサイトで知り合ったお友達、お互いの様子をサイトの掲示板や各自のブログでいつも見ているので、会ったことがなくても違和感がない。ふみえさん親子とも初のご対面。

まなちゃんは、純粋日本人だけれども、写真で見ていた通り、ちょっとハーフっぽい、お茶目でかわいい女の子。ふみえさんとコーヒーを飲みながらおしゃべりしている間にも、丸の内オアゾのエントランスホールをアラタとまなちゃんはと本当に楽しそうに駆け回っていた。元気な女の子とはとっても波長が合うアラタは、頂いたプレゼントのカバンを見るたびに「まなちゃんにもらった」と繰り返している。

Yesterday, I took Aratakara to Tokyo to see Mana. Fumie, Mana's mum, is a friend from a mothers and children site on the Internet. I started to go to the site when I was still pregnant with Arata. I have a couple of 'close' friends from the site. Even though most of us have never met in the real life, we know each other very well because we often go to each other's weblog and we talk to each other on Skype or on the message board of the site.

Mana is very charming and full of beans. She is a pure Japanese but as I've seen her on Fumie's weblog, she looks as if she was a half European. While Fumie and I were chatting over coffee, Mana and Arata were running around at the spacious entrance hall of Marunouchi Oazo. Arata likes lively girls and surely he liked Mana's company. Since we came home, he has kept taking his purple bag, a present from them, in his hands and says, "Mana gave it to me."