Hiroko's Hitokoto

So, kids dressed in Ninja and Purple Which, we headed to park to meet up with kids friends for trick or treat at shopping streets in neighborhood. It was low key, not so crowded one which was great. Photos here .

Dean & Deluca had this marshmallow for trick or treating. Happy Halloween!

Sweet potato Mo harvested the other day.

 Today's lunch

Photos here .

They argue too often, fight too often, but they are stock together...

He complains coming to preschool for after school, and he complains he doesn't want to leave the preschool when I come pick him up.

 Pumpkin salad and honey baked ham & cheese sandwich to go at Honey Baked Ham .

Beautiful summary day today, perfect for sweet potato digging! Boy came home with dirt from head to toe, with a few big sweet potatoes and daikon radish.

It's been a while to come here . Spicy Indonesian plate lunch of the day.

It came with a pretty paper cup. This is my best coffee shop in Tokyo.

Went to M House in Ebisu to meet with Lilia, 5 months old baby girl and her parents from Hawaii. Mo couldn't leave her alone the entire time, he was trying to entertain her in his way. Maybe we'll ask them to let us stay at their house in Hawaii some day soon.

After elementary school & kindergarten's joint sports day, Mo had kindergarten's sports day on this beautiful day. Masami jiji came to join from the night before, and this time, papa was there. Mo was in white team, and it lost at the end. He was not happy but he could finish his part of closing speech. Good job! Photos here . Videos: Mo on obstacle race Preschooler's race Yosakoi dance Ball toss game Relay Mo Dance with parents Closing speech

 Walked by this lamb BBQ restaurant called LAMU in Hiroo, and decided to try.  Hokkaido ones, Australians, and leg slices which are gone already. Salted lamb and tongue

Masami jiji wanted lobster rolls, and I went to get them right after they opened the shop at 11am. There was a line of about 20 people already, mostly Asian tourists, judging from their accents and guide books. I bet Tokyo is closer than Maine to them. Wait wasn't bad so much, I could get 5 rolls to go. It tasted almost like the ones in NY we had last summer, difference was the bread, which was softer and fluffier here. Yum!

Uses lunch box accessories to picture fish in water. Clever!

 NY Ring, a semi cronut... Latte at The Roastery

My daughter had "Lecon de Gout", a Class of Taste today at school. Instructor was a chef Namae from L'Effervescence , a French restaurant ranked No. 12 on Asia's Best 50 Restaurants, Michelin 1 star restaurant...! "Lecon de Gout" is a lecture conducted during the 3rd week of October, " la Semaine du Gout ", The Week of Taste, which has been running for 5 years in Japan since introduced by France, which originally started in 1990. If you look at the list of schools with lecturers on the website, it goes on with prestigious restaurants participating. According to this website, total of 129 schools, 330 classes, with approx 8,984 students are joining this class. For NIS parents, they are scheduled on Nov. 20 for G-3. Theme at the class was to learn 5 tastes: salty, sour, bitter, sweet, and umami. They had samples of salt, rice vinegar, chocolate, sugar, and dashi soup stock. She was very happy that she could eat chocolate at school, pu...

 Chicken Tarte aux pommes for dessert

From my kimono instructor as a reward of being a model.

Kimono contest that I had to attend and dress up my boy in 8 min. I could manage finishing within 8 min no problem, but the other people were much better than me, off course, and we didn't win any of the awards. Mo was very upset... Well, now it's over and I can relax. Photos here .

Young sardines bowl and fermented soybeans lunch

 A damaged mail box delivered. A note attached said the postal service tried their best to recover the damage done during the delivery and they were sorry to present in this condition. Only in Japan. Anyhow, it was cookies from Chris. Luckily the contents weren't damaged. Kids were happy very much. Thank you very much, Chris!

 Family  Fish Exchanging each others picture