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#throwback #14 Feb 2020

It was Valentine’s Day a week ago and for us here in Japan, it was the Chocolate’s day (o^^o)

Everybody might already knows it, where girls giving chocolates to boys they adore on Valentine’s Day in Japan.
Though, I still love to bring up my boys to have delicacy towards girls and to have the caring spirit of “gentleman first”,
we make chocolates on Valentine’s Day to match the ambience around (*´∀｀*)

First, the recipe for my 3 years old Little-Cook!

The chocs made by Kta-boss(*´꒳`*)

Instead of saying he making chocolates, we rather say he was just melting and reshaping the chocolates  (￣▽￣) 

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Chocolate Souffle made by harupi(￣∀￣)
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Grand chocs I received from the Big-Boss(´∀｀)
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Cookies given from Uto-boss’s friend(ू^^•ू⑅)❤⃛

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I guess we had a simple well loved day (*´꒳`*)

Hope everyone did too!!

One of our breakfast menu at home, pancakes!!

Today Little-Uto-boss ordered a classic stacked pancakes

While Littte-Kta-boss ordered a Nyan-cat pancake! 

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Both of them actually just got very fascinated with Nyan-cat lately 

This year Valentine’s Day, my big-boss was not around~ 

I don’t have anything myself,

but made a few heart-shaped treats for my Little-big-bosses

And for Little-big-boss Uto to give to his little friends.
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Happy Valentine’s Day

 Uto 
 20170214
 5years 5months 12days
 5歳 5か月 12日

Kta
20180214
1year 9months 20days
1歳 9か月 20日

On 3rd of March, Little-big-boss Uto was going to a mini zoo with his kindy mates and teachers. So on that day I made him..
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The hen and chick lunchbox 

But Little-big-boss Uto didn’t know what was it when I asked him. He said, “Hina matsuri?” (Girls’ day)

Oh! He thought it was the emperor and the empress doll that was shown by the teachers on this event  Well 2 characters on the lunchbox with a heart in between and exactly on the same day.. GOOD TRY indeed!!!! 

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

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..)

Halloween in Japan is like another festive season where people enjoys costume playing, everywhere is decorated with Jack O’ Lantern and all, children gets candies and snacks, a get together event which maybe not many who knows the exact tradition of Halloween. I didn’t know either until I checked on Wikipedia a few years ago

This year I joined in the fun with Little-big-boss Uto by making Halloween O-bento (lunchbox) for him to take to his kindergarten!  For almost the whole month of October 

The starting was so so..
So I just chose the one I think that is presentable to post up here 
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No.1 The black round creatures

No.2 The skulls

No.3 Jack O’ Lanterns and the Ghosts

No.4 The tricky Ghosts

No.5 The little mummies and black creatures

No.6 Jack and the horror mummy..

No.7 The happy Ghost playing

No.8 Big Jack O’ Lantern

No.9 Halloween party!

No.10 Love Halloween 

The end
Compared to some amazing Japanese Lunchbox posted on the internet, I’m still way too far to reach, but it was fun making it 
You’d just get used to it and get faster and prettier day by day 

Now back to normal days till Christmas season!