* Track of the little sparkles *

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

Entries from 2020-05-01 to 1 month

2020-05-29

Recently, the max temperature is nearing 30 degrees in our area. So my 3y daughter and her friends began to play with water gun I bought these last summer, but she didn't play with friends last year, bcz she was too little. I'm very happy …

2020-05-27

Our 3y daughter made them herself. She saw that my husband cleanup our entrance with a broomstick and dust pan. So, she wants to make this set We amazed that she did it all herself. From think about what she'll make, cut paper, to connect …

2020-05-26

This lady bug is about to hatch! Here is our neighborhood's yard, and there's a lot of caterpillars of lady bug. We can also see many "pupa"s. It seems to take about one week to hatch. Here also has a lot of aphids, which lady bugs eat. My…

2020-05-25

Hooooooooooo! I bought them! I wanted to eat all of them, but my husband was at home.... We ate them while our 3y daughter was taking a nap And, she ate most plainest donut after nap. To tell the truth, I prefer the pancake which we make a…

2020-05-23

My 3y daughter is addicted to the clover rings. I start to make for her from the day before yesterday. I completely forgot how to make. But I tried about 3rd or 4th ring, I found the best way Today, my husband is going to a park with her. …

2020-05-22

!! SORRY FOR BUG PIC !! Yesterday, I took a walk to the small forest nearby with my daughters. There were already 3 brothers (maybe 8y, 4y, 2y) playing, and the eldest boy found this big caterpillar (almost 4 inches) My 3y daughter was sca…

2020-05-21

Today's Google Doodle is about Mbira. I didn't know that Mbira is different from Kalimba. I like those instruments I think I made Kalimba about 15years ago, and am searching it in this morning. But I can't find... Instead of Kalimba, I fou…

2020-05-20

We found this flower is blooming in the Library near our house. This flower smells very nice, like Jasmine. My 3y daughter loves this flower. I googled this flower's name. It's "Lonicera periclymenum". In Japanese, "においにんどう (匂い忍…

2020-05-19

Our olives are blooming!!! It pasts about 3 years since we plant them. First, we planted them in the ground. But after half year past, we found that there's no space to park our electric bicycle. So we concreted the ground, and plant them …

2020-05-18

I went to the park with my daughters also yesterday. We found MANY ladybugs dead... I gathered them, and counted. Around one cherry blossom, there are 23 ladybugs dead. What happened to them?? My husband said "May be some professional spra…

2020-05-16

Hoooo! Really SUMMER I forgot to bring water bottles yesterday. But 3y daughter and I could drink from water supply in the park. (Look under the tree). These water supply supplies normal water and water for drink. And most of the park in J…

2020-05-15

Look!! There are blooming another 4 flowers on our strawberry Can we eat another 4 strawberries? My husband and I were about to pull out these seedlings, but my 3y daughter said "Don't pull out! It will bloom another flower soon!", so we r…

2020-05-14

Our green peppers and tomatoes are blooming! And, the first green pepper is fruit. is completely in the mood to take care of them. Oh, I thought is green pepper, but this emoji says it's "Bell Pepper". Is it more common in English? And, …

2020-05-13

DWE text says about traffic signal like this: green: go yellow: go slow red: stop ...Oh, really? In Japan, I think yellow means stop. In US or UK, does yellow mean go slow? My 3y daughter memorize the signal in DWE, so she says "Yellow mea…

2020-05-12

My 3y daughter met her friends at a park yesterday. They all ride a bike, and all love to swing. Since her nursery accepts only essential worker's children now due to COVID-19, most of kids can't go nursery and meet friends. They seemed to…

2020-05-11

Good morning! Today will be very hot day The temperature goes about 28 degree around Tokyo. It's almost summer! I'll go to park with my daughters, take lunch at home. And, eat ice cream which I bought yesterday WHILE DAUGHTERS ARE TAKING A…

2020-05-10

Since I saw some follower says "The SEVEN-ELEVEN's Earl Grey tea portion is very nice!!", I went to SEVEN, and look around... But there's no portion😭 So, I bought them instead the portion... Too much?🙃 https://t.co/xcHO52RyUJ 10 May 2020 11:…

2020-05-09

Good morning! It's almost noon, already! I'm struggling with video recorder setting. I bought new recorder, and it must use network. But the network is often split... I want to see the TV program continuously, but I have to push the contro…

2020-05-08

The egg plant is blooming! And, green pepper is about to fruit! And, our strawberry seems very strong... The leaves became very big & thick. But only one strawberry we were able to harvest... I think we should pull out these strawberries, …

2020-05-06

We are in continuous holiday. Usually, we call this week "GW", means "Golden Week". But this year, people shouldn't go out to play. So some people call it "Gaman Week". Gaman means endure. Tokyo Gov. recommends to cleanup home in this week…

2020-05-05

In Japan, "Emergency Declaration" (soft lockdown) was extended to end of May, in all prefectures. How about your country, states, city? I heard the news of other country, and most of countries will relax the lock down in this week. And, Ru…

2020-05-04

Our strawberry finally turned red! Since there was only one strawberry, my 3y daughter ate whole, of course She said "Sweeeeeeeet!" We planted 2 plants, but we can find only one... Did we failed to raise? Or will it bear more fruits? (bear…

2020-05-03

Every meal, I take a photo of our meal, and upload it to miil. The photo is not saved in my phone. But sometimes, I take a photo and save it in my phone. In such a case, we use irregular foodstuff. Or, me or my husband put our soul into th…

2020-05-02

Goooooooood Moooooooooorning!!!!!! https://t.co/RZ6cd6TcMq 02 May 2020 07:10

2020-05-01

My husband and 3y daughter planted seedlings in this morning. New comers are tomatoes and eggplants. Last summer, we planted cucumbers and harvested huge amount of them. Cucumbers grown toooo big, and was almost stuck out to neighbor yard.…