Cotton candy

They were giving cotton candies for free. Twins were happy to receive one each. Pinga thought about bringing one home but it was too difficult. Momo-chan should have gone with them! Pinga asked many times but he was determined not to go...

Hello gingerbread man

Twins were in Yaletownnfor the Christmas event called Candytown. There were Christmas themed shops, gingerbread persons and cotton candy stand.

Parade started

Parade started at noon and they could find a decent spot to watch it. There were a couple of pipe bands participated in it.

Community education

Pinga attended community education session at Momo-chan's school in the evening. The topic was about executive functions. It was good for Pinga to recapture those so that she can deal with Momo-chan better.

Waiting and waiting...

Here are twins waiting to get flu shots at the clinic. The appointment was at 3:30 but they are still waiting. Now it's 3:55.

Train QP-chan and bus Coco-chan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08uSVwWa_EY

Christmas wreath

They arrived at the preschool and noticed that there are these wreaths. As you can see, QP-chan is more sooperative when taking photo. Coco-chan usually doesn't really care about photo shooting and continue what he is doing.

Unicorn

Their friends came to visit them with many toys and one of them was this unicorn. QP-chan likes it much and put pajama on it and brushed its teeth. Good job QP-chan!

Sunday morning

They slept in and woke up around 9. It was unusual Coco-chan slept in. Maybe because Pinga stayed in the bed as well. Here's Coco-chan checking on still sleeping QP-chan.

Cirque de soleil

As part of Pingu's birthday celebration, Pinga took Momo-chan and Pingu to Luzia by Cirque de soleil. It was much fun watching the show.

Renting ski boots

They came to rent twins ski boots at a ski shop in North Vancouver. QP-chan feet are 16cm and Coco-chan's 17cm.

Artist Coco-chan

Here's Coco-chan showing Pinga his drawing of her. God job Coco-chan!

To the preschool

Momo-chan does not have school today so all of them left together like this. Pinga was biking her bike and took this photo. Momo-chan went to Pingu work. Twins were dropped off at their preschool.

Momo-chan’s classroom

Pingu and Pinga has a meeting with Momo-chan's teachers. It was good to hear how he is at school. His classroom has ocean theme. Nice and colourful.

Outcome of the baking project

Momo-chan was happy to have these checker cookies. Well, he is holding the cacao section.

Ready for baking

After dinner, they put on aprons to help out with cookie baking. They decided to make Momo-chan's favourite cookies.

See you later!

It was difficult to wake QP-chan up in the morning. As a result, they were a bit late for preschool but they were happy and waved god bye to Pings.

Christmas tree

After Halloween is Christmas. Aquarium gift shop already has Christmas trees decorated with sea animals.

Octopus Coco-chan and beluga QP-chan

They went to their favorite kids corner. Coco-chan was walking around with the octopus and QP-chan put on beluga outfit on her.

To the aquarium

As it was rainy, they went to the aquarium. Pings wanted Momo-chan to join but he didn't want to. QP-chan wanted to use the stroller but Pings convinced her to walk. They walked well going there and back.

Arrived in Vancouver

Around 7 am, they reached Vancouver airport. To Pinga's surprise, QP-chan woke up with no problem. Momo-chan was very sleepy and Coco-chan was not so happy. Momo-chan went directly to school from the airport.

Mini suitcase

Momo-chan liked to carry this mini roller suitcase. He asked if QP-chan wants to be on it and of course, she did.

At the airport

As the flight was at 11:40 pm, by the time they got to the airport Coco-chan was sound asleep. He didn't wake up until one hour before landing to Vancouver. Coco-chan slept from 9:30 to 4:30. QP-Chan and Momo-chan fell asleep at midnight when the flight took off.

Beach fun

They had fun playing with sand and water. QP-chan enjoyed being in the water and Coco-chan liked more building stuff with sand. Mono-chan enjoyed both activities.

Strong current

Shortly after they got to the beach, life guards were removing the signs as it was time to go home. Pinga thought if they got here a bit later, there were no signs and could be tough to know the condition.

Ho’okipa beach again

They arrived around 4pm to the turtle beach and found out that the condition was not good again with strong current signs. There were turtles and one was very close to the people.

Artist QP-chan

After colouring this page, QP-chan came to Pinga and asked to use her phone to take photo of her work. This is what she took. Nice and colourful hearts. It's sometimes difficult to get the telephone back from QP-chan though.

Last day

It was not much activities on the last day. Twins were colouring and watching Netflix. Mono-chan was playing on iPad. Too much indoor seems to be not so good for kids, Pinga reconfirmed it through observing.

Beach sunset

They stayed at the beach until sunset and enjoyed the beautiful view.

Body boarding

Momo-chan tried body boarding for the first time. He liked it and even switched to as bigger board towards the end.

Kamaore Park III

After late lunch, they got to this beach and it was around 4pm. It was supposed to be a calm beach but it had special condition and dangerous. Lifeguards were announcing how dangerous it is and then left around 4:30. They had fun playing with sands and water.

Wave girls

Pinga and QP-chan played close to the shore and had fun as the waves came in.

Wild chickens

Kids were surprised to see chickens running around at parking areas and other places. TRhis rooster was very big and was with his family.

Beach brothers

After a late lunch they went to Kamaole Beach park for some beach fun. Momo-chan and Coco-chan played nicely together building this turtle house and saving it from the waves. The conditions were unusual and the waves were extremely large and strong so it was not snorkeling or swim friendly.

Macaroon time

Coco-chan was up early as usual. While waiting for his siblings to wake up, he had macaroons. Not really a breakfast but it's vacation... He picked orange chocolate one.

Komoda bakery

Close to the house is this bakery with tasty donuts and malasadas. Today they bought breakfast there for the third time.

Relaxing

Yesterday, Pingu spent all day at the house. Pinga did some shopping and went out with twins to a mall with a playground.

Ice cream time

After the play area, Pinga's plan was to take them to Tasaka guri guri. They got to Maui Mall around 4 pm but it was already closed. So they went to Baskin Robbins for ice cream. Coco-chan decided right away that he wanted chocolate one. QP-chan wanted to have cotton candy but she tasted it and didn't like it. So it became Strawberry and Mississippi mud. They are good at sharing.

Jumping QP-chan

Here's QP-chan jumping from the whale tale.

Coco-chan on whale tale

Play area at the mall

Twins and Pinga drove to Maui's largest mall for some play area time. Mono-chan didn't want to follow and stayed home. The play area was not big at all but twins enjoyed it.

Beach time again

Yesterday late afternoon they went to Hookipa Beach again and enjoyed the waves.

Iao Valley State park

Yesterday they went to visit the small but nicely located Iao Valley State park in rainforest area. Momo-chan thought the "needle" more looked like a thumb.

Hawaii ouchi

This is the Airbnb that they are staying at on Maui. It is spacious and rural, quite different from there one in Honolulu. They do miss nearby shops and extra kitchen stuff though. Maui is also more expensive than the already expensive Honolulu.

Post meltdown milk shake

Momo-chan has been having difficult times lately. Yesterday was extra hard with not wanting to sit at our table, not wanting to eat lunch etcetera. A kind old man at the restaurant became concerned and gave Momo-chan a milkshake.

Car team

They are spending quite a bit in the car and are generally doing well. QP-chan sometimes complaints and says she wants to get off though. Snacks helps 😅.

Nakalele blowhole

After an hour of driving on winding and narrow roads they got to Nakalele blowhole on the north west part of Maui. It was high tide so they got to see the cool sprays.

Finally arrived

They finally got to Twin Falls. 3km hike was a bit tiring for 3 years old. Pingu windered if there's another waterfall. Pinga explained this was it. Amount of water changes depending on the water anount.

To the Twin Falls

Hiking to the Twin Falls took longer than Pinga thought. Momo-chan and Pinga were bitten by bugs but others were fine.

Pineapple breakfast

They started a day with pineapple breakfast. There was banana bread too but no one was interested other than Pinga.

Water dam

Momo-chan enjoyed the beach and spent time where small pools of water formed. He was excited to find tiny fish there.