Entries from 2023-01-01 to 1 year
I made this lyric book of Frozen 1&2 for my 6yo daughter. She is addicted in singing Frozen songs these days. Because I bought Frozen songs CDs and we usually listening them in our car and house, she can sing even not famous ones🤭
We saw this golden stag beetle at Kawa-Sui. It had held the beetles & stag beetles special exhibition. Since my younger daughter loves bugs, and we caught real beetle this summer, they were very interested in that exhibition. It also expla…
About Kawa-Sui aquarium, again. We ate "Namazu"(catfish) barger and fish&chips. Since my daughters love fish&chips, they also liked Catfish one. It was the first time even for me to eat catfish, but it tasted almost same as other fish. We …
At Kawa-Sui aquarium, we met the sloth in very short distance!!!! It's forebidden to touch them, but we could see them for a while in only 1m distance. Their clow was soooo sharp and long. In English movies/songs/books, we see about sloth …
We went to "Kawasui" that is an aquarium near Kawasaki-station, and displays only River creatures. It was our first time to go there, so we enjoyed very much. I didn't know the concept of this aquarium, so we expected to see jellyfish or s…
My husband bought this large Shiitake mushroom at Gunma prefecture, last weekday. My 4yo daughter calls its stem as "mushroom finger", and she doesn't want to eat it. Look! They were soooooo juicy and tasty. My daughters like to eat them (…
We went to the park, and found a lot of bugs. But we realized that there was no cicada sounds. Instead of cicadas, we found a huge mass of ants. Why were they in line? And why so many ants were on the ground?? We found no clue about it.
Our (maybe) last watermelon for this season. As you can see, my daughters, eat them until it turns white!!! Since this watermelon was the species that we can eat even seeds, only green & white peel remained.
My elder daughter began to go swimming lessons from this summer. Because I'm not god at swimming, it was helpful for me. I was not so enthusiastic about swimming lesson, but I heard that the primary schools don't teach how to swim so much …
Yesterday night, my elder daughter had a book read for her little sister. It was Three Little Pigs, with phonics. It says "I spy, my little eyes,..." very often, and they like that part Since her little sister is easily bored with hearing,…
The memory of BBQ in this summer. We did camp & BBQ with my nieces. They are almost same age as our daughters and has almost the same skills, lessons, and intersts like piano, English, princesses♥ They enjoyed playing and chatting together.
Because I asked my daughters "How would you like to eat these sweet potatoes?", and one replied "As miso-soup!", and another said, "Fry with pork!". So I made miso-soup with sweet potato & onion, and fried pork with sweet potato & mushroom…
My second daughter had summer festival & dance at her nursery. The infants made this float and pasted the origami fish which they folded. How cuuuute😍 Unfortunately, the whether was heavy rain, but they danced in the nursery happily❤️
We enjoyed watching "FrozenⅡ" Movie last weekend at our home. It was the first time for all of us, so we were into the story. Since we bought the movie via Amazon prime video JP, we can choose only English with Japanese subtitle. Adults al…
We visited Nasu-Shiobara city. We dropped in this huge and new library, "Miruru". Especially, the kids' corner was fantastic! There was also cafe in the library. At the second floor, we can find study room as well. I wish it were near my h…
Eggplant with "Tengu" nose!!!! My daughters and nieces were delighted with this funny vegetable🍆
The summer festival has held! My daughters pulled the festival float with many children. That was very hot day, but we enjoyed the event. That was the first time for both our daughters, so they were surprised & enjoyed it.
We visited Utsunomiya city, and ate a lot of dumplings (Gyoza)!!!!!!! My daughters like the character "Kenta" who is the mascot of this franchise restaurant. One of my dreams was visit Utsunomiya and eat Utsunomiya dumplings, so my dream c…
We visited "Utsunomiya" city, and enjoyed a small boat on the small river. My daughters tried to feed the carp that live in the river. Sometimes, ducks came and ate the fish food I like this hat style, "Kasa" in Japanese. It was cooler tha…
We visited the Service Area in Saitama prefecture, "Hanyu Service Area". It was the first time to visit there for us, and we didn't know that there was like "Edo" era. The restaurants and shops were also arranged as "Edo" era. We enjoyed t…
This sign says "If you have trouble with money, please rub this tree.", so my elder daughter rubbed it again and again. We have started to "reward for chores" from this summer, and she has only 60-yen for now! She wants more money!!!
We went to a farm, and our children experienced milking the cow! It was the first time for them, and they were scared of the cow at first. Finally, they could milking the cow and said, "That was extremely fun!!"
We went to the botanical garden in Tochigi prefecture. There a "carnivorous plants exhibition" was held! We enjoyed watching them, feeling them with the fake big toy, and smelling them! We found some large bugs were in the plant...🪰
We went camping this weekend. See!! We caught this small beetle!!! My elder daughter found it and I cover it with the bug net, finally, my husband grabbed it & threw it into the bug cage. My daughters and their cousins sketched it at night…
My daughters are addicted to this video, "Octonauts". One of the characters often says "Shiver me whiskers!". My elder daughter asked me the meaning of this word, but I didn't know. (actually, I didn't hear and watch the video with my daug…
I made these sweets with my daughters. Since we had a lot of oats, we should consume it! So, we mixed it with mill & yogurt, and decorated it with berry source and frozen berries!!! We have to leave them one night, so we'll eat them today🥰
We gathered these forest gifts. With the chestnuts, it seems like autumn had come! But, yes, still here is super hot...🥵 We plan to go camping on this weekend, so we are packing now. My daughters also very excited to prepare their own backp…
We went to the nearest small forest. It takes 15 minutes to get there👍 We enjoyed the cool air of the forest, and see & catch bugs. My husband and elder daughter caught two butterflies, and we brought them home. My daughters draw and release…
We went to the Night Zoo event. We enjoyed the night zoo, animals, and stall food There were 5 quizzes related to animals. My elder daughter tried to solve them. They are a little bit difficult, but we already learned about them at the zoo…
My husband bought this fantastic raw tuna at his favorite supermarket. There was a tuna cutting show there, and he saw it. But at the first show, he missed the "Sashi" part which has fat and juicy part, so he tried to wait for the second s…