Halloween pikachus taking walk

Pikachu Naoya

Very tired saggy Pikachu Masaki

Candy made him charged!

Naoya's favorite "Umai bo"

A little break while waiting for the light

Pikachu back & front

 

Twins had their Halloween party at pre-school

Naoya

Masaki

2 pikachus after Halloween party at preschool

Naoya loves GYOZA!

Bite!

Watching elementary school practicing dance

 

Making sandwich with persimmon...

Persimmon & marinated mackerel sandwich

This month's flowers

鶏頭（ローズベリーパフェ）、小菊（カリメロ）、コットンフラワー、木苺の葉（ベビーハンズ）、ユーカリの実 

Cockscomb (Rose-berry parfait), small chrysanthemum (calimero), tree cotton, raspberry leaves (baby hands), eucalyptus berry
 

Latte & sfogliatella

 

Buddha bowl at Dean&DeLuca

 

My little monsters

 

Rawr!

Videos here, and Naoya sing & dance, Masaki not interested.

Lion at Ginza Mitsukoshi

Meanwhile in Ginza, Tokyo, everybody’s wearing mask, including this lion welcoming customers at Mitsukoshi department store. 

BF at The City Bakery

 

Broccoli cheddar cheese soup by Matt

 Thank you Matt!

Glamping with Risa & Sara

Glamping over the weekend. I drove all the kids with me as Risa & Sara's mom had to work. They enjoyed the playground at the camp site, and made a new friend. Ton had her sports day at school, so she was joining us with papa later. Risa & Sara's mom could drive Ton and papa after her work, along with a belated birthday cake for both twins, we had a little celebration.  

Photos here.

Videos:

Risa & Sara jumping with a friend they made

Girls on a trampoline

Double twins see-sawing

Naoya & Masakin on a trampoline, and

Happy birthday!

Soba from Bashoan in Miyagi

Rescue food from Miyagi Pref. Bashoan has an online shop that sells their home made, hand cut soba, so I ordered some. It arrived the next day after they made it, thanks to the logistics!

Hand made soba

Naoya!

Pushing the dog into a pumpkin...

I'm 4!

Tracing lines on the floor

I actually want them to eat their breakfast and get ready to go to school... 

Sable Breton from Maison D'ahni

A gift from mammy friend in exchange of hands down of twins' clothes. Thank you! 

Sauce Américaine using shrimps from Matt & Kana

 

Quick lunch at Drogheria Sancricca with twins after park

Masaki drinking apple juice

Fried chicken sandwich

Naoya

Beef lasagna

 

Apple pancake

Tried a new recipe, it came out pretty good, but babies didn't like it much. So I ended up making simple, usual pancakes for them.  

黒はんぺん入りおでん

A family friend got us 黒はんぺん (black fish paste cake) from Shizuoka, and I cooked ODEN with it. Yum! Thank you Yu-Ching! 

Gong cha fruits vinegar drink

 They have rice porridge, and I want to try next time... 

Mo's research about French cars

 Witnessed at open school. It was his an assignment during the summer break, and to do research something about France. He immediately decides it was going to be about cars. He complained that he wanted to do Italy because he likes Italian cars, but he founds out that France has those cars. 

Drinking water while waiting for Masa to give us a ride

 

Breakfast at The Blue Bottle with Masa

 

Smoke salmon and cream cheese open sandwich

Waffle and decaf at The Blue Bottle

A little home cooking from magazine Dancyu

Found a friend posted some recipes on Dancyu magazine and tried one of it. 

春菊サラダ

茄子とジャコの煮物

Hakuba Family Trip

We took a one night family trip to Hakuba. I had an urge to be at this place called Hakuba Mountain Harbor, which I've seen a beautiful picture of autumn colored mountains posted by The City Bakery. Thanks to my wonderful friend Hiroka & Alex, we could find a place to stay, took a shinkansen ride from Tokyo, which was a birthday gift to my twin boys btw, and rented a car to Hakuba. It was not an easy trip with two 4-year-olds plus a teenager and a preteen, but we made it! And Renfield brought some goodies for my birthday all the way. Thank you very much! Hakuba was beautiful, not quite changing the color yet, but it was refreshing. My photos don't quite capture the scenery... They have mountain bike ride down the hill, big swings, buggy ride tours, etc. there so we need to come back for more next time. Thinking about taking another gondola ride up and down the mountain gives me a shiver though...;-)

Photos here.

Videos of Gondola ride from Hakuba Iwatake station, gondola, and Shinkansen arrived.

Postcard from The City Bakery

Short break at Blue Bottle

Coffee jelly with ice cream & coffee whipped cream

Tired papa

Lemonade

We met up at the shop before Ton's guitar concert at her school in the afternoon. As the school cancelled the music festival, they re arranged it to a smaller concert for two afternoon clubs: guitar and brass band. As Ton belongs to the guitar club, we went to check out. 
 

Lunch at Hashidume, Hiroo

 It was a bit chilly I went to Hashidume for lunch. 

Peking duck 北京ダック

Dandan noodles 坦々麺

Birthday party at preschool

 They had a small party at preschool together with another friend in the class who had a birthday close to theirs. I catered rainbow cupcakes and delivered it to the school, but didn't join the party. This picture is from the school.