Archive List for February 2017

Today’s lunchbox!

Baymax with love  ベイマックス 

Just watched the movie not long ago and we just love doing the Baymax fist bump  like everyday when Little-big-boss Uto is leaving for kindy!
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Baymax all gone  完食 

Today was also a parents-visit day~! It was great to be able to see how the kids  are doing and how the teachers dealing with them 

今日も幼稚園の参観日☆
普段幼稚園の時、見れてない様子が見れて、楽しかった
こんなにもお友だちと色々な会話ができて、お当番さんとしてもちゃんとやってくれて、感心しました 可愛かった！

Little-big-boss Uto 
 20170223
 4years 5months 21day
 4歳 5か月 21日

Lunchbox for Little-big-boss Uto yesterday! 

Pokemon Snorlax! カビゴン
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It was parents-visit day, so I got a chance to see and to snap a picture of this 

Little-big-boss Uto 
 20170221
 4years 5months 19day
 4歳 5か月 19日

Lunchbox last Friday 

Little aliens in love 

Little-big-boss said these are Pikmin though..

I started my Valentine’s Day making lunchbox!!

I woke up late and just had time making this lunchbox for Little-big-boss Uto, but nothing for Big-boss..
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Well, instead of the Valentine’s lunchbox..

I made gateau chocolat for him 
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And then,

I received this stunning chocolates from my Big-boss! 
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While on the other hand,

Little-big-boss received a cute homemade rabbit chocolate from a friend. 

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone 

Little-big-boss Uto 
20170214
4years 5months 12days
4歳 5か月 12日

Previous post on Setsubun 
 Setsubun 節分 

The song for Setsubun 

Oni wa soto
(Demons out you go)
Fuku wa uchi
(God of luck in you come)
Parap parap parap parap, mame no oto
(Parap parap parap parap, the sound of the beans)
Oni wa kossori nigete yuku
(The demons running away quietly)

おにはそと
ふくわうち
ぱらっぱらっぱらっぱらっ、まめのおと
おにはこっそりにげてゆく～

While most of my friends were celebrating Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year), getting fat eating New year’s feast and snacks with all their might, I was here with my boys were having peaceful days…wondering when can we too getting fat with mom’s cooking, lousang, kuih kapek, etc!!

Anyways, in Japan, we had Setsubun 節分 on the 3rd Feb, literally means a  seasonal division, which also means winter is ending and spring is coming!!
People here usually celebrate this day by performing “mamemaki” 豆まき, throwing beans to cleanse away all the evil spirits (bad luck or so) from the former year, inviting good lucks to the coming year!

It’s like a new start! A festival that was thought of as a sort of New Year’s Eve previously in the Lunar calendar.

The familiar characters during this festival.
Left: 福の神 Fuku, the God that brings luck
Right: 鬼 Oni, the Devil that brings bad luck.

And so, everywhere was playing their role on throwing beans! 
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In the kindergarten, they made an ‘Oni’ mask, and did the ‘beans throwing’!

At home, we made a beans box from a milk pack..

Tadah~!
The Oni box!
We put in some paper-made beans..

And GO~ GO~ AWAY~ evil spirits~! Evil spirits and bad luck far far away you go~!
GOOD GOOD LUCK please cooooome to us~!
(Singing the Setsubun song  while throwing the beans at the house)

The video for this 
 The song for Setsubun 節分の歌 

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Then, we joined a nearby temple for the beans throwing event~

Surprisingly, met some friends there! 

All the kids coming here to aim for the snacks throwing event after the beans 

Imitating the Oni 

Ehem, you see, there was no chance at all for a small kid to be able to catch any goodies from this crowd..

Luckily the mommy carrying Little-big-boss Kta is tall enough to get him some 
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In that night,

I made Ehou Maki, lucky sushi roll for our Setsubun dinner 
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For Littie-big-boss Uto kindergarten lunchbox,

The Oni bento 

The Oni and Fuku bento 

Happy Spring everyone~
(Though it is still so cold outside..)