Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Pingu and Momo-chan's turn

Now it is Pingu and Momo-chan that is climbing up to the lookout point. Many people and warm weather. 

Waiting at Diamond head crater

Pinga and her mom is climbing to the Diamond head lookout at the crater ridge. Pingu is waiting with the children for them to come back. 

Coco-chan admiring the view

Coco-chan was just standing like this for a while looking at the view. Very sunny and strong sunshine today. 

Monday, January 29, 2018

Pineapple ice cream

After the train tour they enjoyed pineapple ice cream. Even their vegan friend could enjoy since it was made with coconut milk. Tasty! 

Curious Coco-chan

QP-chan got very scared when the train started to move. Coco-chan was fine and curiously looking surroundings. There were different kinds of fruits, banana, carambola, cacao, avocado, lychee, longan, and flowers like plumeria. 

Pineapple express

They drove to Dole pineapple plantation. There were three main attractions. Pineapple express, maze and garden. First they got onto this pineapple express. 

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Yellow fire trucks

They passed by fire station and saw these yellow fire trucks. Coco-chan was very curious. 

Waikiki Beach

They walked to Waikiki Beach and Momo-chan had fun with water and sand. The weather was perfect with 26 degrees. 

Mango tree

After a 6.5 hours flight, they are in Honolulu. They passed by mango trees and surprised how many mangoes there are on one tree.

Saturday, January 27, 2018

On the way to YVR

Momo-chan and Pingu took a car and twins and Pinga took Skytrain to the airport. QP-chan was not so genki as she's having cold. Coco-chan had lots of energy and talking a lot. 

I'm ready to travel!

Here's Coco-chan pushing mini suitcase. Somehow Momo-chan and Coco-chan like this suitcase a lot. 

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Hula hoop Coco-chan

Coco-chan was happy and active. Here he is with a hula hoop.

Playtime

Twins went to a playtime at a community center with their friend. He will turn three at the beginning of February and twins will turn two at the end of February. 

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Curious twins

Twins had fun with these glass bits and other things. They were quietly walking around and checking things out. 

After singing

After singing, parents and guardians could walk around and look at children's drawings, writings and other things they have accomplished. Momo-chan just sat at his desk and didn't show Pinga or twins around at the beginning though. 

Student gala

Twins and Pinga visited Momo-chan's classroom as there was this student gala. It started off with singing. First they sang a song of First Nation people. Then they sang some more. 

Monday, January 22, 2018

Birthday cake

It was Pinga's birthday so Pingu got this fruits tart. QP-chan's hand was approaching when she took thiss photo. Twins were eager to have a piece and they enjoyed it too. Coco-chan liked the custard part and QP-chan liked blueberries. Momo-chan ate all of his piece. 

At the school yard

Twins were at school waiting for Momo-chan finishing his arts and crafts session. They were well taken care of by older Japanese kids. Nice! 

Sunday, January 21, 2018

Vancouver public library

Momo-chan likes library. So after the design house, they went to children's part of the library. He played with iPad and read a book with Pinga. 

Design house

After the brunch, they went to this design house. Momo-chan found these cat cushions and called them Scotch cushions. Ge wanted to have one at home. 

Crêpes brunch

Momo-chan was very happy to have Nutella crêpe and Nutella milk shake. Pinga got a long spoon for him after this photo. 

Saturday, January 20, 2018

Fountain fun

They had fun walking around and played with water at this fountain. Their sleeved got wet. After that, they finally got back into the stroller and took a late nap. 

Pho lunch

They went straight to food court and bought pho with lemongrass chicken. They seemed to like it noodle, chicken and soup as well. 

Out from the stroller

QP-chan was this happy when she finally got out of the stroller. After more than 1.5hour traveling by bus and train, they arrived at metropolis in Metrotown. 

Rainy Saturday

Pinga decided to go to somewhere they have never been. So here they are waiting for a bus. But the bus didn't come for more than half an hour. 

After school playdate

Momo-chan's friends came for playdate. The brothers are seven and five. They had a lot of fun together. 

Cypress mountain skiing

Today was a good forecast for skiing so Pingu and Momo-chan are at cypress mountain skiing today. They are doing their tradition with hot chocolate breaks. 

Thursday, January 18, 2018

Coco-chan's turn

Then Coco-chan was pushing QP-chan as well. 

I'll push you Coco-chan

Here's QP-chan pushing Coco-chan's vehicle. 

Grey sky

It was another rainy morning. They went to Coal Harbor community center for playtime. 

Playtime at a church

After the fire hall was playtime at church. It was at a different room than usual and lighting was not that bright and QP-chan got a bit scared. 

Fire hall visit

Momo-chan visited fire hall on Tuesday. On Wednesday twins followed another class visiting fire hall in the morning. They were very curious. First graders they were with went inside the fire truck as well. It was interesting for Pinga as well. 

Coco-chan? Are you sleeping?

QP-chan was waken for the flu shot and couldn't fall asleep again. They came back and she wanted to check on Coco-chan like this.

At a clinic

Twins were at the family doctor for QP-chan's second flu shot and get Coco-chan's rash checked. QP-chan fell asleep while waiting. Coco-chan was waiting for a doctor very patiently like this.

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Give me the phone!

The twins were trying in their cat knit hats so Pingu wanted to take a photo. QP-chan became upset because she could not get to hold the mobile phone.

Monday, January 15, 2018

X-ray place

After the clinic was this place for taking Pinga's x-ray. The receptionists took care of twins while Pinga was taking x-ray. They were very nice and twins had fun. It took a long time and when they were all done, it was close to 12:30.

On the train

Twins and Pinga took a train to get to a clinic for a health check. The appointment was at 9:30.

Getting dark

Here is Momo-chan with new haircut. Momo-chan and Pinga took a walk along sea wall after the haircut. It was around five and getting dark. 

Hair salon

Momo-chan went to a hair salon and got his hair nice and short. It was a Japanese salon called Sakura hair salon. 

People supporting for Iran

Momo-chan and Pinga were waking in town when they saw these people demonstrating for Iran's democratic freedom at Robson Square. Momo-chan asked pinga what is democracy and what is dictatorship. Pinga explained but Momo-chan hasn't learned political systems and so on so not sure how much he understood. 

Foggy morning

It was very foggy in Vancouver Sunday morning. Outside of the window was white like this.

I'll help you with the oven

Coco-chan learns how to do things quickly. After seeing Pinga taking cookies out from the oven, he put on the oven mitten and ready to open the oven. 

It's me!

It was QP-chan who was hiding in the box. 

Who's inside?

Synchronized sleeping

Twins fell asleep about the same time at 13:50 with about the same angle like this. Especially Coco-chan hates rain cover to the stroller. So it's not easy when it's raining. 

Thursday, January 11, 2018

Yoga master QP-chan

QP-chan wss up late again. She was sitting like this, lifting her foot and stayed like this for a while. She knows her yoga moves! 

Playtime at Coal Harbour community centre

It was raining heavily so Pinga took twins to playtime at a community center. They were quite unfaithful on the way as they hate rain cover of the stroller. Once they got there, they were quite happy playing.
Here's the link to their video.

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Omusubi moment

On the way home from the church, they had omusubi, rice bolla, at a Japanese food shop. There was a microwave so Pinga warned them up and twins ate them quite ok. Them they fell asleep on the way home. 

QP-chan and a baby doll

QP-chan came to Pinga holding this baby doll so dearly. Pinga found it very sweet and took a photo. 

Singing and parachute

There was a moment with parachute at yesterday's music session. There came parachute today as well. QP-chan was playing somewhere else and Coco-chan was curious but didn't go under it.