* Track of the little sparkles *

Daily log of childcare, cooking, gardening, sewing, and so on.

2022-08-29

Recently, we started to watch #BriReads and learn about mixing colors. Yesterday, my 5y/o daughter tried to draw a rainbow with only 3 color tubes. She knows that to make orange, she must mix red and yellow. In this way, she finally comple…

2022-08-28

We participated in a show of the English program, #DWE. That was a show for baby ~ infant students. My 3y/o daughter enjoyed it much, and she danced and sang very well. But, the last song was "bye-bye baby". Suddenly, she stopped waving, a…

2022-08-27

Last weekend, I went to this place alone and enjoyed the lanterns. My husband said, "Let's go there at night!", but we had no chance since then. I imagine that it must be beautiful at night with many lights. As my 5y/o daughter likes Rapun…

2022-08-26

It was her first time making "Shingen-mochi" by herself. She is just three, and usually, she is a very rowdy kid. But this time, she concentrated on pouring molasses on the mochi and mixed it with Kinako powder. Of course, she spilled a lo…

2022-08-25

My 5y/o daughter made this "computer" by herself. She said that she had made another one at her nursery. After she made this, she pretended to work hard, and when I said to her "Please hug me!", she said "Oh, just a moment, please! I'm bus…

2022-08-24

It has been past just 2 months since we move back to Japan. We completely back to daily life, and adopted the Japanese lifestyle. But, sometimes, we really miss large lawns, big seagulls, and dry & comfortable weather. Also, we miss our fr…

2022-08-23

In the UK, we used to make sandwiches for our packed lunch. But nowadays, in Japan, we prefer to have rice balls for packed lunch. The carrots, cucumbers, and tomatoes are the same in the UK. But we are sad that we can't bring grapes becau…

2022-08-22

We went to "Hakkeijima sea paradise" yesterday. We enjoyed the dolphin jump show, penguin show, touching the starfish event, and so on. We visited here 4 years ago, but at that time, my first daughter was frightened by the splash of the do…

2022-08-21

We went to a park and played in the sandpit for 1 hour. Since it rained a little bit, no one played there. The elder daughter made this "Elsa's castle" by herself. She made its shape with deep wet sands at first and sprinkled the white dry…

2022-08-20

We made this toy with a PET bottle and an unnecessary gauze mask. The bottom of the bottle was cut and taped for safety. We brought it in the bathroom, smeared the soap to the gauze, and blew from the top of the bottle! Then, it made loooo…

2022-08-19

I drew this picture watching a real swallowtail butterfly which my husband caught with my daughter. Because it took a long time, I changed the way to paint the wing on the way After I drew this, my daughters wanted to draw this butterfly. …

2022-08-18

We bought and ate these cuuuuuuuute ice cream at the Hill of Soleil. This ice cream model is alpaca, which was at the farm of this amusement park. Look at the left one. She is already melting... Because that was a very hot day, we enjoyed …

2022-08-17

I caught this white dragonfly! (I set this picture as sensitive, because there may be someone who doesn't want to see) My 5y/o daughter chased it for a long time, (I couldn't believe why she could run so long), but finally, I caught it✌ We…

2022-08-16

At the Hill of Soleil, we could also try to make buns! Even our 3y/o daughter tried that, and made cute faces on the buns We tried that as soon as we arrived, and picked up the baked them at lunchtime. So they became the desert of the lunc…

2022-08-15

We went to "Soleil Hill" park! Since there was just after the typhoon, the giant sunflowers were toppled. But the small ones were fine, so we can enjoy them. And more, there were two big playgrounds, animals, a fair, boats, trampolines, an…