Halloween Party 2010

We belong to a group for International Children, "Bunko" and this year for the Halloween party, we brought a gigantic pumpkin. The kiddies loved it.

Setsubun - Getting Rid of Evil from your Home (Feb. 2010)

This is a fun day in Japan. Parents wear a devil mask and children throw peanuts at the devil. While throwing they say, "Devil go outside, Good luck come inside." This time Noi wore a mask. We had fun doing it~!

5th Birthday Party

Ohhhhhhhhh...to be 5 again~! They had fun decorating their cups and plates, then playing pin the tail on the donkey and hot potato. Of course, we made a cake that was not so great, but we just put a lot of ice cream on it and the kiddies loved it~

Noi's School Performance

I'm amazed at what children can do at 3, 4, and 5 years old. The preschool performance was outstanding; really shows the efforts of the teachers. Afterwards, parents gave children presents they had to make, not buy, and some of those presents were amazing. I made a fan for Noi.

Winter is here and Fall went by...

Wow, again, so much time away from my blog...which is good, it means I have my hands full of fun things to do. What I need to do is post images here, so, let's start with early autumn...found a lovely open space with swans on a river with bike trials. Spent time on the bikes, then rolling around in the grass.......

Ladies Tea Party

It was a blast!

Back in Blog Land

OMGosh....it's been sooooooooooooo long since I was on my blog........been absorbed in Facebook land.............Facebook is cool, but I can't really write a lot there and I can't track my life, in the way I'd like to do with a diary....the blog is like my diary, so to speak....Life has been good, busy, sometimes stressful, but not too much, and interesting. As usual, a million things going on at once, with the main focus being Noi. Today I went to a hike with an International Women's Group and it was LOVELY. I realized how much of a "tomboy" natural girl I am when the guide, a man, said, "Lastly, we are going to climb up this steep hill." It was slippy and sandy and I just bolted up it right behind him and when I reached the top, looked down at the other ladies, who were all quite disturbed, because they were having a terrible time to get up the hill. Finally, 10 minutes later, they all made it up. Japan is GORGEOUS right now, so alive and GREEN. The insects are all starting to emerge and that means beetles that sing all day and night. I can't wait to hear them. Days are warm, nights still a little chilly, but not bad at all. This weekend is Father's Day. We will do something fun.