Hiroko's Hitokoto

Photos here . Videos of  Pikachus going to trick or treating ,  trying to go up a light poll , and Pikachus taking off socks .

Photos here . A video of  Masaki excited with water, Naoya following .

 Pizza lunch  Masaki Naoya

Went to check out Saka's exhibition in Ikejiri with twins. It was great to see her there! We always love her paintings and drawings. Photos here .

 Cotton candy Masaki Happy Masaki on the mini train An annual local fair that has miniature trains running and lots of train toys to play was going on the weekend. Masaki had more than 3 train rides, and he was so happy!

 Tea room  Garden of the tea room  Docomo tower remind me we're still in Tokyo  Left twins with friends, Renfield and I went to Shinjuku Gyoen to attend a tea ceremony that one of my friends from work was performing. We had 薄茶 which is a weak green tea first on a bench, then 濃茶 which is a thick tea on tatami. We dressed up in kimono just to enjoy the whole thing, despite the fact we don't know the rule of tea ceremony. The friend was in kimon, who's been learning this tea of 小堀遠州流 Kobori enshu ryu for more than 10 years now. Thank you very much for the invitation!

Masaki

 Twins walking around a garden of Tengenji Quick break One of moms at Mo's class organized a TV shooting for a song called Paprika, and I took Mo together with twins. Mo was not into it at the beginning, but he was totally into it at the shooting unbelievable. It will be aired on Dec 22 and Dec 29 7:55- on Education channel, and Dec 25 15:55- on NHK. A video of  Mo and his classmates dancing "Paprika" .

 Masaki eating pumpkin pie  Naoya likes whipped cream  Masaki eating icing on a doughnut Naoya's sad because he ate all of those white chocolate decoration The store was packed yet the food was almost empty. Probably the logistics were still chaotic after typhoon the day before. Twins seemed happy they had sweets for lunch though.

鶏頭、トルコ桔梗、竜胆、マトリカリア、ブバリア、紅葉ヒペリカム Cockscomb, Texas bluebell, Gentian, Feverfew, Bouvardia, Hypericum androsaemum

 Twins on iron bar  Nice posing Masaki! Pose!

A video here .

 Lotus roots, carrot, burdock, and chicken, deep frying Masaki tried it

I ordered a dozen of rainbow cupcakes at TAC, hand delivered them to school for all the kids in the same class of Naoya & Masaki this morning after drop off. Photos are  here . Videos of  Happy birthday song , self introductions , and  Naoya volunteered to flip pages for story time .

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A video here .

 Happy birthday Masaki! Happy birthday Naoya!

 Pool time  They're up somewhere there... Twins coming down the gym

Preschool is closed because we had school trip the day before, we decided to go to IKEA with Masa driving. Twins were very excited about the car ride, ice creams, Halloween stuff, and the train toys. Photos here . A video of  what Naoya does with a give away blue pen .

 Masaki scooping the cream in cannoli Naoya

School trip to Kawagoe, Saitama for sweet potato digging. This time Masa joined us for help. Photos  here . Videos of Naoya & Masaki singing  "Wheels on the bus" ,  "Peek a boo" , and  "Let's make a pizza" .

 Mo with pink No.5  Cheering younger kids' team Mo with pink No.5 Tired Mo He joined a dodgeball team of kids to teen hall nearby that he goes often, practiced every week for the past month for this tournament. They lost the first game, though they won 2nd, won another one and ranked 6th. Good job, Mo! Videos of  2nd game , and 3rd game .