School Bazaar 2010

I've been in and out of blogosphere since of last week--yours trully and some other volunteer Japanese mums has been very busy preparing for the bazaar that was held during weekend for fund raising at Haruka's school. Lots of people visit the school every November coz it's a major fund raising event for the school. We've got booths, games, gourmet foods and fleamarket.

I guess some of you have read/seen some of our works to be sold at the event, for those who haven't, they're here and here. Mom volunteers have contributed time and shared their talents on making a unique handcraft items for selling and with that, the school bazaar event was a very successful one and I'm glad I was able to be a part of it again. Last year's bazaar was a year of influenza and only few people were invited to come over but this year, we gave the promotion ads a full blast! We went over to some supermarkets ( big or small ) and schools to post bazaar posters and gave flyers to everyone--been very busy but was fun! All the proceeds go to support school. Here's some of the photos, enjoy^_^

---Cutie baskets---

Magnetic jewelry, chou-chou, croachet coasters

Mini-Basket Pouches

Chopstick Cover

Lots of customer are looking forward for these handcrafts items

Tissue Cover

Room Shoes

Christmas OrnamentsArm Protector

My kids playing outside

Wakaba's smile

Wakaba making some crafts at the outdoor booth

Haruka was busy, too!

Us ( cashier and wrapping goodies in-charge) at the counter taken by my husband
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Haruka's Undokai

Haruka's first Undokai or Sport's Day was somehow sad coz their Daddy is on the job but the truth is he was supposedly off on the said event ( he asked for a day-off weeks ago ) but he received an emergency call in the evening before the undokai so he has to work halfday to be able to attend even for the last minute knowing that the undokai will end after lunch. Secondly, my PIL wasn't able to attend coz my MIL is still in the hospital for the nth time(T_T) however, she did call to give Haruka some boost and encouragement.
This is my 3rd year to observe Undokai or Sport's Festival of my kids. First was Wakaba's First Undokai in Kindergarten, then Wakaba's 2nd undokai , and Wakaba's Sport's Day at Primary School and now it's Haruka's turn! How time flies!!! Well, anyway I prepared some homemade bentou requested by Haruka for us to take for lunch. We went at school right in time and enjoyed ourselves and had a great time. Haruka participated most of the game and she loves it most especially the parent-daughter/son tandem game. It's a lot of fun to participate games with my kid! The game includes tug-of-war, tama ire ( where the kids had to shoot some balls into the basket ), relay races and pass the button relay and a somewhat ' finding ' or 'hunting race' . The kids picked up cards that had things they had to find then they bring to the finish line. Wakaba and some first graders also participated games like pan kui where the kids must grab a piece of bread hanging without using their hands. They were given notebooks as prize for particpating the game, Haruka and the kindergarteners were given a medal.
All in all, it was a success except for some occassional rain and I'm looking forward to next year's undokai--this time with their Daddy and Grandparents. ^_^
Homemade bentou requested by Haruka: Nikumaki Onigiri ( rice wrapped with seasoned beef )

Haruka, marching with a smile!
Getting nervous??
" Haruka chan, give Mama a smile over here! " and she did ^_^
Relay Race
Haruka is a fast runner but she didn't win the 1st place
Mama and Haruka tandem
GOAL!!
We did it!! Haruka did a great job! I'm so proud of her!
Lunch time, having a feast with my homemade bentou
Their Daddy came right after the ending ceremony--still on his white uniform lol!
So proud of their achievements!
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Summer Activities

---Watched Mareeze's ( women's soccer game) at J-Village---

I'm back and it's really great to be back at blogosphere!! Thanks to all who prayed for my MIL's speedy recovery and to all who left some messages and for dropping by even if I can't return all the visits. I always take full advantage during my kids summer vacation and made it worthwhile.

Summer activities means FUN to my kids but me and my husband tried to balance between play and study even when on a vacation. During their off from school, they were given an assignment to complete before the school resumes which is on Wednesday of next week. We let her read and do mathematics ( her assignments at school ) everyday but Wakaba I guess was so excited, she wanted to do them first thing in the morning and that she finished some of her project already so she can had a load of fun the whole summer vacation without worrying with undone assignments after lol! Even when we went at my PIL's home, she practiced reading and doing her math assignments everyday. Here are some of my kids summer activities that I bet they really had a good time ( and so am I! ) ^_^ ---Checking her assignments----

---Addition and subtraction cards; Wakaba is good on numbers ^_^---

---Summer treat together with Wakaba and Haruka's friends ( with a consent of their parents of course ) at the pool---

---Watched Pretty Cure All Star Show live---

---Went to Amusement Parks---

---Tanabata Matsuri---
---Went fishing together with my kids cousins and Grandfather--- ---Wakaba is attending swimming lesson, twice a week----
---Wakaba doing her project---
---Seeing Wakaba's drawing ( she's improving, too ) makes me feel a lot of emotions: proud, happy coz we are all smiling and is colourful---

And my gosh, I'm so excited to be back!!! ( my summer activities online has just begun lol! )\(^0^)/

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PBW--Kindergarten Summer Festival

---Wakaba and Haruka, enjoying their summer vacation---

We went to a Natsu Matsuri ( mini-summer festival )at Haruka's school at kindergarten last weekend and had a load of fun just like of the last year . It was more fun for Wakaba coz she have met again her former classmates in kindergarten ( same school ) and stayed with them til the event was all over. It's hard to take photos of them coz they would ran away from me lol! Although it wasn't that crowded ( only invited people can join the event ) the atmosphere felt like a big festival coz there were tradition games like yo-yo tsukui ( water baloons ), wa nage, etc to be played by the kids and some booths, too. Last year, Haruka was afraid of the horror booth that we have to accompany her but now she went alone lol! My little girl is growing up fast, she's even wearing her big sissies summer yukata now that I thought 'twas big to her and that we bought a new one for Wakaba to wear this year. Gees, anybody help me for not letting them grow up that soon???
---Haruka, waiting in line to join for a game---
---Wakaba wearing her new summer yukata, love the color combination of black and pink flower and rabbit design------Mama, onechan wa? ( where's Ate? ), Haruka wanted to play together with her big sissy but Wakaba was busy goofing around with her former classmates------I prefer the 'yo-yo tsuri ' ( where you can catch balloons with paper and hook ) rather than 'kingyo tsukui' ( where you catch goldfish with paper nets ) coz the poor fishes will die in a couple of days---
--- Got her water balloon!!------Wakaba, listening to the guest performing with drums------Mom should have at least one photo ( again lol ) while hubby doesn't like to being photographed ( ibo-broadcast ko lang daw kasi dito lol)---
---Fireworks as one of the highlights of the event------Wakaba and her former classmates---
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