Hiroko's Hitokoto

 Very crowded inside, took outside bench under a beautiful weather.  Mackerel sandwich for myself. Kids hanging out, watching iPad (off course).

Videos 1 , 2 and 3 .

He wanted me to tape him making smothie: Mo making smothie And finished!

Very happy to see Craig from White Smoke!

As same as last year, we played taiko at annual event at Sacred Heart. Beautiful pictures on the first part were taken by Matt, with a much better camera (off course!). Many friends here and there. Kids played well, even Mo was like a new person, Ton, chilling as usual. And awesome food, wonderful weather, we stayed until they finished at 4pm. Photos here . Videos: Mo playing "Dragon vs Tiger" 1 Mo playing "Dragon vs Tiger" 2 Ton playing "Dragon vs Tiger" Mo playing "Nebuta Daiko"

Open school at Mo's kindergarten today. Went to outside where they had biotope, Ton happened to be there for science class. They were having observation of nature there, and many dragonfly larva were hanging on green, leaving its shells. Quite amazing to see this in the middle of Tokyo.

Recently he found this Star Wars paper craft at AIS, and took some back home so that he can built some more.

A treat after soroban (abacus) lesson.

Flying carp for Children's Day on display at kindergarten. Off course boys want to pull them...

Met up with George and his friends for dinner at Aman Tokyo because he couldn't get any hotel room in Tokyo for this evening. As expected, it was a wonderful hotel, though I personally felt the staff has to have more experience of working in this new hotel. Photos here .

He made this mask at kindergarten.

Milk mustache!

Met up with a couple of old friends we've met during Aiiku hospital days over lunch. Always fun and interesting to catch up how the other kids are doing at different school.

Yoyo's mom had 3rd anniversary at her shop, and we stopped by to say hello. Kids wanted these beautiful cookies from Thumb and Cakes , and I got a couple of brownies. Yum!

So, same as last year, Ton joined the hula on the stage at Tokyo International School Cherry Blossom Fair. Beautiful weather, some old faces, both Ton and Mo were busy playing with their old and new friends. Photos here .

Ryuei, Mo's best friend at kindergarten had a small birthday party. Photos here .

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They were having Italian fair, and we bought pizza and some other goodies which we had on the roof top of the department store, in beautiful weather.

Mo decided to cook hamburg for dinner, and each kid shaped as they wanted, fried it, and there you go!

So, uploaded photos of their arts from school. Ton's here . Mo's here .

While waiting for Ton to finish abacus class, I had to have something warm, along with this new bread with chocolate chip cookie on top (semi MELON bread).

It was Mo's first day at kindergarten, and it ended before lunch. It got really cold again so we decided to go to ramen for lunch. Papa joined and I had this spicy one just because it was cold and rainy day today.

It was her first day at school as 3rd grader, though it ended less than an hour. So, I took her with me to run some errands in Shibuya. And here we had lunch at illy cafe.