Here's Aya & Kengo!

February 24, 2012

Breakfast. Aya is getting really good at using chopsticks.

Girls' Day dolls display at a Japanese sweets shop


Local Park

Kengo enjoys chasing the butterflies

Aya on the monkey bars

Aya in her new preschool T-shirt and cap. She will start attending a Christian Japanese preschool in March.

We love trains!

At a nearby playground

At home working on crafts

Got a hair cut!

We miss you daddy!

"Hatsuhinode"-First sunrise of the year

"Ozo-ni" a traditional new years soup with veggies, chicken and mochi. It is a Japanese custom to eat mochi for new years.

Oven-broiled mochi.

"Isobe-yaki"-mochi with soy sauce and nori. The kids seemed to like this a lot.

Helping with dinner.

Aya turned 4 years old on 12/29. Emi baked her a birthday cake for the occasion.


Yummy...!

Opening gifts at home on Christmas day


Checking out all of the goodies in the stockings

Posing with their new toys

Back in Novato to visit with family


More new toys!