Updates

Although the kids are still little, but being with them at home, sometimes I tend to forget that they are still only 6 & 4 yrs old. Many nights I would go into their bedrooms, seeing their sleeping faces, then realized, they are just little kids.

 

Yoshi enjoys his school. According to teacher's report card, his grade is good, but needs to work on some personal development. ^_^ Sometimes need reminder to "focus" on his task, & "talk in appropriate time" (meaning sometimes chatty with other kids). Haha.... guess he has Nori's gene (Grandma used to say Nori talks A LOT when he's little...^_^). We had few talks with Yoshi about that and he's doing much better. But like Nori said, at least he's "communicating" well with others. When I asked Yoshi who's his best friend in class, he would list out all the boys names. He said "everyone" are his best friends (maybe not so much about girls yet... ), I can tell he really enjoys school and his friends. 

 

Kiharu.....where to begin with her?! She LOVES LOVES LOVES school, she would tell me all about her friends. She would say so and so got injured today, and she would go up and ask he/she if they are alright. She is a good friend (but sure don't mess with her though....^_^). She is NOT shy in talking with friends for sure. But whenever I go out with her meeting other moms, they would always think she is QUIET.... because she don't talk much unless she knows you well. She acts differently at home and outside. She looks forward to Yoshi coming home everyday, they play well together (of course there are fights). And I could hear my tone of voice in her many times, like when she thought it's her right to "lecture" Yoshi....

 

Here is a photo of the kids with our close friends, they don't see each other often, but when they do, always have a great time.

Went to a friend's birthday party, guess Kiharu thought she was ready to throw some balls.

 Kiharu's best friend in school- Eva.

 Lately, Yoshi has been a great eater, always get a second bowl of rice, and he has grown taller.

 As for her.......huh.....365 days, 3 meals/day.... S-L-O-W!!!!

 It's been a while since we did some craft work at home. We used the empty egg carton container & google eyes... we had fun before Yoshi returned.

 She added a special dot at the back of the caterpillar, she said it's the "bottom/butt". ^_^ imaginative...

Japanese Girl Festival

Today Yoshi's school got cancelled due to snow. But there were lots of homeworks to do. So we spent the whole day homeschooling. But it was good to stay home, so we have time to bake a cake for our little Kiharu.

 Yoshi was helping me on part of the writing, he's very sweet to his little sis.

Who doesn't like "Surprise"?!

You have each other

Everytime when they were arguing and said to each other "I'm not going to play with you!!", then I would tell them "You only have 1 brother/ sister, if you don't play with each other, no one else will play with you."... They do love each other, they enjoy each other's company. They laugh, they play, they eat, they argue together and they also miss each other when apart.. xoxox

I asked Yoshi to teach Kiharu how to write her name in Japanese, so he helped her "dotted" her name on the paper, and had her followed.

C-O-L-D~~~~~~~~~

Nori was away on business trip this week. Seems like everytime when he's on a long trip, snow storm comes..... we had a snow/ice storm the other day. I don't mind shoveling snow, but the ice layer on top was just too heavy to lift. Till today, I still have Salonpas patches on my back... School got cancelled for the 7th time this winter, kids enjoyed the outside fun.

 Our proud cleaning job

 Today Yoshi has to dress up as 100 yrs old to celebrate 100th day of school. Luckily I found a few toys I could use at home. He said the taping of mustache was not comfortable, but he enjoyed his look in front of mirror. The funny thing, he was looking at both grandparents' photos last night for "inspiration". I told him both of you (kung kung & Ojiichan) are not 100 years old, but he said "they are old man".....^_^



Kiharu's 4th birthday party

Kiharu's birthday was back in January, but with the holiday trip and school, I just couldn't do a birthday party right away. So finally after a month, we did a party at home for her last Sunday. It's her 4th birthday celebration.

 The cute thing about her party this time, we had invited some of her own friends from school. It's really cute seeing her enjoying so much with them.

 One of the memorable thing about this party had to be the birthday cake topper. It was a lego theme created by Nori & Yoshi. We had a few of the Winnie the Pooh Lego characters, so that's how it started. It was beyond my imagination, I love their creation  (& luckily I forgot to defrost the ice cream cake, so it was able to hold the Lego toy weight)

 The three yellow thing hanging from ceiling were meant to be "bee hives" (Winnie the Pooh's favorite honey from bee hives) . But I think those bee stickers were more looking like the dead flies...^_^

Happy birthday Kiharu. We love you. Wishing you happy always. Your silliness especially made us laugh a lot...^_^ xoxoxo

Happy Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese New Year to everyone. Wishing you good health and happiness.

(here is the video of the kids wishing everyone all the good things in the new year)

Piano recital

Yoshi has been playing piano for more than a year. He likes music, but I wouldn't say he "loves" piano yet. At least not even considering any piano, we are happy with the keyboard we have. He has piano lesson once a week. He likes to go to the teacher's house and play with the real piano, but I wouldn't say he "look forward" to the class.... Well... at least, he took it serious during his recital performance last weekend. He did a good job. Happy for him.