Christmas Carolers

Friends from our local church came to our house to sing Christmas carols. We were so blessed.

Hiroko's watercolor - ballerina

Meena's Birthday last November

Meena celebrated her birthday with two girl friends who came for a sleepover. They enjoyed a lot of fancy teatimes together!

Hiroko's birthday in November

Roger and the children made a beautiful breakfast for Hiroko's birthday: fresh-squeezed orange juice and berry yogurt (from canned blueberry pie filling and fresh strawberries and pomegranates), boiled brown eggs, tofu sausages and multigrain bagels. It was beautiful and filled with love. The pie filling (being imported) and strawberries are only found in a special shop, and the locally-baked bagels only recently came into the market.

Hammock ハンモック

The kids made a hammock connected to the bunk bed using a cotton bed cover.
子供たちがベッドカバーでハンモックを作りました。

They all love lying in it and reading books, such as Toshi is doing here.

３人とも、ハンモックの中で横になるのが大好きです。ハンモックの中で本を読む悟志。

No wonder they love the hammock, because all of them spent a lot of time in one when they were babies! (This is Meena)
子供たちがハンモックが好きなのは、赤ちゃんのときにいつもスリングで抱っこされていたからかしら。（これは、美奈です。）

Hair cut

悟志、ようやく髪の毛、短く切ることにしました。
Satoshi got a haircut. We do not cut his hair that often, so we wanted to do something unusual....

We cut one side short, but decided to leave the other half uncut, just to be funny.

左半分の髪の毛を切った後、ジョークのつもりで右半分、そのままにしてみることにしました。

Below is the overall look. He has kept it like this for a week to see people's reaction. We were very surprised to find out that most people do not notice the difference.!

What do you think?

友人たちが驚くかなあと楽しみにしていましたが、ほとんどの人は気づきませんでした。ちょっとがっかり。創也は、スタイリッシュだと言っています。まだ、右半分は切っていません。どう思いますか？

The day before Diwali

Today is a day before Diwali, the biggest Hindu holiday--the festival of light. Many Hindu homes decorate their houses with lights. We took a walk in our apartment complex to enjoy the early "Christmas" (that's how it feels to us) lights. After coming back home, we carved a pumpkin to remember the fall season that we celebrated in past years in the USA.