Nostalgia-- Hoshi

I'd like to share my daughter Wakaba's performance on stage playing the Hoshi ( Star ) at the schools Christmas show during her kindergarten days . You can find my post about her Christmas show at school here and here. Haruka will be performing the same part this weekend at her school and her big sister is teaching her songs during their bath time at the warm ofuro. Sometimes I would hear echoes of them from the kitchen performing all the characters played by the two of them lol! I dunno why but they don't want us see them rehearsing. And maybe you're wondering why I'm in and out of blogosphere again, it's because mums will be on stage too and was busy practicing songs to be sang on Saturday. So wish us luck! ^_^

Isn't it so much fun to go back and just yank them all out and just sit there and reminisce? ^_^

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All About Wakaba At School

Any other updates? Wakaba's Observation Day at Japan school is way behind--I haven't blogged for it for awhile and attended twice already and some parent-teacher one-on one meeting. Too much of being left out...

They were doing their art class when I entered the room with some of the parents as well. I was amazed how creative they are when the kids made out of something from materials that they brought from home--some paper plates, paper cups, plastics, ribbons,etc. It was fun watching the kids most especially my Wakaba working on her masterpiece and being so creative. She's having so much fun on her favorite subject at school which is art.

I'm so grateful that Japan school invite us parents to observe and see how our children are being taught at school. Wakaba made a giraffe and a week after she brought home her masterpiece and displayed at home with delight and proudly show off her hard work and of course I'm thankful for awesome pics of her artwork that is now being transferred to our hard drive to keep. ^_^ Well anyway here's some of my Wakaba's observation day in a photos showing off what she's doing in the class.
Showing off her work of art
Shoukai card, Kaiketsu Sorori--it's a some like a review on a book that she was reading at school
Ochiba de dress---they made a dress ( using a large plastic ) from fallen leaves when they had their class outdoor.
Another master piece^_^


Things are going good here and the kids are still playing with their friends in the neighborhood a lot ^_^

Hoping everyone's in pink of health and good spirits. Thank you very much for dropping by!

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Nezumi No Yomeiri

Father Mouse sets off to find the mightiest creature in the world for his daughter to marry. He approaches the Sun, the Cloud, the Wind and the Wall and in the end believes that he has learned who is the mightiest of all. Wakaba played her part of Japanese folktales called the Nezumi No Yomeiri ( The Mouse's Marriage ) and went on stage at her school's stage play/musical last week. It was a first to experience to watch a stage play of the elementary students in Japan school. They played their roles, delivered their lines so well and I'm so proud of my Wakaba performing dances without any shyness and full of confidence. I'm glad that Wakaba loves to be on stage! It was a day to remember, we really had a WONDERFUL time most especially Haruka--she was shouting when she saw her big sissy dancing lol! We thought of leaving school after the performance of Wakaba and the 1st graders because Haruka might get bored--but was wrong, she enjoyed watching the play. It was pretty neat performance of them and Wakaba really had fun and it does makes me proud when my Wakaba were up there performing^_^



I'm so Proud of my girl!
The kids were all adorable
She did a great job on dancing and singing with her classmates
Wakaba made my heart melt for the nth time!



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Nostalgia-- Wakaba

The time flies so quickly--time with Wakaba when she's little is so precious. We remember the firsts-- first steps, first word, etc. Each moment is a picture and memory is stored forever in our hearts. I didn't know being a mom would feel like this, it took me by surprise^_^

Wakaba chan, you're the best thing that ever happened to me
You're Daddy's lil girl!
Your Mom is really fond of you
You love to play all day long
At 5 months, you started teething and this month I also started you on solid food

At 7th months, you're strong enough to sit on your own. You sat up this month
You started crawling at 9 months and just a few days after you started crawling, you pulled yourself on the table Look who's one!! You've grown so much and I will always look back on this first year with fondness and I look forward to every year that is to come!

Isn't it so much fun to go back and just yank them all out and just sit there and reminisce? ^_^

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Nostalgia---Wakaba's First Letter

Packing bento for Wakaba since toddler, being a kindergartner, was the best way to get her interested in lunch and now she's a gradeschooler and still prepare bentou to eat for lunch whenever she needs them at school. She was a picky eater before but after I started making simple bentos for her, she started to eat everything in her lunch box everyday. As a mother, I feel so very happy when she comes home from school with an empty lunch box. I was checking her lunchbox one day, it came with a red lovely heart-shaped origami with a message that goes like this:

ままへ

きょうの　おべんと　おいしかったよ。

わかば　より

Dear Mama,

Today's bento is so yummy.

From Wakaba

Wakaba totally melted my heart! She's such a sweetheart!^_^

Isn't it so much fun to go back and just yank them all out and just sit there and reminisce? ^_^

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Nostalgia--The First Few Months of Wakaba

Every Mom knows how time flies by and thinking of how fast Wakaba will grow brings a tears in my eyes...

Wakaba chan, we love you more than life and more than we can express in words.

These are the days to remember.....

5 days old---Your tiny toes, precious lil fingers, chinita eyes, cutie nose. You love to do your favourite thing: to be breastfed, sleep, sleep and to have more sleep. We love to listen to you as you catch some sleep.---

---You' re so much of your father ( except for the nose lol ) and always be ' daddy's lil girl '. Look at the face of your proud Daddy!---

2 months old---You're becoming more active, more often awake and started to smile!---

---You don't like pacifiers, don't like to be bottlefed and you love to be rocked while you catch some zzzzzz---

3 months old---Your very first roll over and you started to laugh this month and every single giggle of yours gives us so much joy!---

You're growing up.....

Wakaba was born on June 7 at 6:25 PM weighing 3,518 grams and 50.5 cm in length

1st month check-up -- weight: 4,502 grams length: 53.9 cm

in your own time, in your own way.

Isn't it so much fun to go back and just yank them all out and just sit there and reminisce? ^_^



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I'm So Proud Of My Wakaba!

Wakaba's article that she wrote during Tanabata had been chosen---She went home with a certificate from her school! Can't help it but I'm so proud of my Wakaba!!\(^0^)/

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When Sorry Is Ain't Enough

Wakaba was grounded for not doing her homework when she came from school yesterday and went to play with her friends instead. It's not that we don't want her to play with her friends after school but our rule in the house is that she have to finish all her assignments FIRST at home before going out and play with her friends or tend to her virtual pet . She have so little time in the evening coz she ( and her sister Haruka ) have to be tucked to bed before or at 9 PM-- eating her dinner, taking a warm bathe at the ofuro, she also have to prepare personally her things to be needed for the next day, reading books, bonding, etc---so little time but a lot of things to do.
It wasn't a first time, so I have to teach her a lesson for breaking a promise-- no playing with friends today after school. If she does her homework, let's see...

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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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