* Track of the little sparkles *

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

Entries from 2023-01-01 to 1 year

2023-07-21

Last weekend, we went to a small splash pad. They were catching the pond skaters! The elder daughter used a long bug net and caught the bug. Then, the younger daughter grabbed the bugs from it and put them into the cage. By the way, she co…

2023-07-20

My elder daughter made the colored water by water paint at school (red, yellow, blue), and brought it back. So, we played with them in the bathroom. My daughters mixed the colored water and made their own "favorite" color. (It was very dif…

2023-07-19

We went to a kimono shop to resize the Kimono. The orange and white one was a very old one. My husband's mother and his sister wore it at their 7 yo celebration (shichi-go-san). The shop clerk said that it's very good one, so we can still …

2023-07-18

In the last weekend, I tried to show my daughters the "Painting with Crayon" movie on YouTube. They tried to draw an apple, using many colors. My second daughter gave up in the middle, but the elder daughter liked this activity. She draw a…

2023-07-17

We went to a park with a small splash pad. We played a lot with the water, and before eating lunch in our tent, we dried ourselves sitting in the middle of the field. My daughters liked this style☺ Anyway, yesterday was soooo hot, and toda…

2023-07-16

We had a summer festival at my second daughter's nursery. Every year, the eldest class opens the store by their own, using fake moneys. We bought pretended "Choco-Banana", "Ics Floss", "Tako-yaki" which are very famous as summer festival's…

2023-07-15

Because the panini I ate with my daughter at a cafe was sooooooooo delicious, I bought a hot sandwich maker and made the first one! It looks nice, isn't it??? But unfortunately, my elder daughter has a wobble tooth for now, and she ate it …

2023-07-14

Yesterday, my elder daughter found a cute face in her plate!!😊 It was made of konbu, the menu was cabbage with konbu & sesame oil, one of my easiest & specialty🙌 She said "Look! He smiles! And, he has even nose!!🤭"

2023-07-13

My elder daughter and I went to a library near Sakuragi-cho station. In that library, there was a cafe and eat-in corner. We had a panini for lunch there🥪 It was super delicious, so I bought a panini maker for our house🤭

2023-07-12

Next, our garden's harvest was, the cucumber!!! We had found that one 2~3 days ago, but it was still tiny. After several days, it has grown very big...! We have to check the cucumbers every day from now. Otherwise, we miss the delicious te…

2023-07-11

The second make & do was from my husband. He banded the aluminum foil to the loo paper core. When you speak to the loo paper core, your voice would be changed like an alien My daughters made & played with this toy for a long time. It's the…

2023-07-10

We stayed at home and did some simple "make and do" with my daughters. The first one is "Rattling instruments" made of tin cans. At first, we used the empty cans, and later, we poured some water into them. They changed their sound, so it w…

2023-07-09

We went to an Orchestra's rehearsal for the children's event. Because it's for over primary school kids, I went with my elder daughter. There was no conductor, but the players were in perfect sync. The program was Pulcinella, which is also…

2023-07-08

We went to the cake shop with another family who wanted to buy cakes for Father's day. And, saw the cake's price rose soooooo high... That was an extra cost, but we were all happy with these super delicious cakes. (One of them was over ¥12…

2023-07-07

This photo is about 5 years ago!!! Perhaps we were in the nearest international airport. But I didn't remember why we were here. The only thing that I remember is, there was a huge bamboo tree and it has a lot of wishing paper for Tanabata…

2023-07-06

Sorry for the sensitive image! My second daughter loves insects. Especially roly-poly these days. She picks up a handful of roly-polys and shows them to the adults, even if the adults are not her parent... Sometime, she picks woodlice whic…

2023-07-05

We harvested mini tomatoes from our garden. They ripen enough, but we had sabotaged to pick them up for a week. My daughters ate them which were harvested by their own, and said "Sweet!!" Usually, they don't want to eat which has black spo…

2023-07-04

I made this card case for my elder daughter. She is a primary school student now, so she has to pay for trains or other public transportation. We bought an IC card for her, and she put it into this case Since she likes rabbits, she was ver…

2023-07-02

My daughters helped my husband to make this stuffed bell pepper with meat. It's very rare to cook this for us, so my daughters were very excited to create this. Of course, it was sooooo delicious😋 (Basically, my daughters like bell peppers!)

2023-07-01

This is test article for twitter integration. Recent nature photos🤭 And I want to know how emoji going to transfer on twitter.

2023-06-30

I had a dinner with my colleagues several weeks ago. There were people from 3~4 countries, and we all enjoyed Japanese food. I had mistaken this food for "Tofu Skin" but it was just pork It was so fun that spend time and chatting with peop…

2023-06-26

My elder daughter is trying to pass the pre-graduation exam of #DWE . She didn't like the last story of this text, (Book12), because it had been a little bit scary for her for 3 years. But now, she is OK to see the DVD and reading books. S…

2023-06-25

We went to the large park today. It was very hot day, but we enjoyed so much! Here was a big stump in the park, and there are full of bugs, fishes, and nature things! We enjoyed also packed lunch here. We felt cool breath of the wind. It w…

2023-06-17

TwitterAPI Specification has changed, so I'm trying arrange the program. It's the test post.

2023-06-07

We ate the cheese cake which my husband bought for souvenir. Look...! My 3yo daughter ate it from top cover...‍♀️ But it's very cute... Haha! My daughters said they want to eat more, and today is my younger daughter's birthday! I'll buy so…

2023-06-02

She is making her "house" with this cardboard🏠 She also made a key for this house, and gave it to her little sister🥰 Now, when she feel sad, she goes into this house. https://t.co/dcHy3fmlJl 02 June 2023 17:44

2023-06-01

We ate this yellow watermelon! My husband bought this whole watermelon, and he didn't notice it's the yellow one. How can we distinguish the internal color of the whole watermelon? Anyway, we enjoyed it, and it was very sweet regardless of…

2023-05-28

We went to the zoo again! But this time, we didn't see that many kinds of animals. Instead of that, we enjoyed bugs (butterfly, bee, and roly-poly), and tadpoles My daughters are very good at finding them and playing with them (especially …

2023-05-20

Today is the short trip of my 3yo daughter's nursery class. I cooked the pack lunch for my daughters and me (super simple version) Usually my husband makes the pack lunch, so it had been a super long time. https://t.co/VvYimH0yZp 20 May 20…

2023-05-19

We sometimes buy small snapper at the supermarket, not only for special celebrations. I feel it's relatively cheap (¥680). We always just put it into the grill😋 https://t.co/qSi8Ijm3U3 19 May 2023 07:03