Preschool together

QP-chan is finally well enough to go to preschool. They were unicorn and polar bear today.

Coco-chan at preschool

QP-chan was staying home with their nanny but Coco-chan went to preschool. He was doing Lego when Pinga came to pick him up. She asked him what he did in the morning and he said "Lego. Just Lego." Almost always the same answer from him.

Coco-chan questions

Pinga is always amazed by what Coco-chan asks. While eating breakfast he asked, what is God? (神様って何？) to Pinga. Pinga tried her best to explain. Also asked where did he hear god but no answer. Pinga is guessing maybe at preschool as they go to Christian preschool. Other questions he asked were:

Why is this yogurt not white colour? Other yogurts are all white. (He was drinking Yakult)

What does sold out mean? (He was watching some toy program on TV)

Fireworks

They were about to go to bed and all of a sudden, fireworks started. Not sure of the occasion but they enjoyed watching them. QP-chan was afraid of the noise though.

Still sick QP-chan

It's the 4th day of fever for QP-chan. High fever started early in the morning of Thursday. She was tired and fell asleep like this.

Memory game

Twins are still sick with a fever. They were playing a memory game together. Momo-chan is good at it and QP-chan seems to have a good memory too 

Teruteru bozu

Another rainy morning in Vancouver. Twins made this teruteru bozu to wish for a sunny day. Let's hope it's effective and the sun comes out soon.

Sick QP-chan

Coco-chan got better and QP-chan started to have a fever. She woke up at 2am and saying I'm hot. Let's hope they get rid of the cold soon!

Church playtime

Twins were at the church for playtime. It's been a while and they were a bit shy but they joined song time and parachute and had fun. They seem to be finally fever free.

Birthday origami craft

Pinga came back home and received these. Flower bouquet has Pinga face by QP-chan and Coco-chan. Then twins drew their faces too. Also origami cakes. Wow, very nice.

Momo-chan said in the morning that there would be a birthday surprise made by him. Pinga asked in the evening and he said it was fun at school and he forgot. Pinga thought it's great that he had fun at school.

QP-chan at preschool

Coco-chan couldn't make it to preschool so it was just QP-chan. When Pinga came to pick her up, she was doing this. How do you call this? Magnet fishing and then place it in the puzzle.

Fever Coco-chan

Poor Coco-chan woke up with high fever on Sunday. He was tired and fell asleep like this. He called the stuffy "Donkey-san."

Gondola down

After hot chocolate and lunch, they went down with gondola. It was crowded and QP-chan couldn't see outside so she asked Pinga "have we arrived?" a couple of times.

Skiing QP-chan

QP-chan and Pinga took two buses and went to Grouse Mountain for skiing. As it was not great weather, not so many people. Heavy fog and then started to rain. QP-chan skied for about an hour. She was a bit afraid so they did kangaloo style.

Bubble tea

It was raining but went out with twins to get some bubble tea. Momo-chan was at physiotherapy for the first time so they got one for Momo-chan as well.

Boardgame time

After dinner was a boardgame time. They played Settlers this time.

Business analysis study session

After work, Pinga was attending this study session for IIBA certification. IIBA stands for international institute of business analysis. Pinga is already a certified project manager and she wondered if she needs another certification for business analysis but the best is to find out more and find out if she'd be interested in taking the exam. It was 3 hours long and it will be once a month.

Snow fun

They went to Stanley Park today. There was a lot of snow and the made snowmen.

https://youtu.be/dUfFeTbgfeg

Yoga twins

Pinga was on the waitlist for yoga class in the evening. Twins said they wanted to do yoga. They know poses like downdog and tree. They were very quick changing from one pose to the other though.

Snow fun

Momo-chan noticed that there was much snow on the balcony. He proposed to twins that they should honour and play. So they went out and had much fun.

https://youtu.be/Cya8UFoqULE

Snowing and snowing

Momo-chan's school was closed due to heavy snow fall during the night. Pingu and Pinga were shaking their head as they cannot understand why they don't remove snow from the streets? It's dangerous and causing so much problems. 

It started to snow again in the afternoon. Can you see it's all white behind QP-chan?

Minus 7C and snowing

It was not snowing during night but started to snow just when they went out of the apartment. They are in overall today as it's colder than yesterday.

Snowy morning

It snowed again in the evening on Sunday so they woke up to the white world. To their disappointment, they don't remove snow from the street so it's dangerous to drive or bike. Pingu drove to Momo-chan's school and Pinga walked to twins preschool.

Snowy Vancouver

There was no shared car at the airport and they took a train from the airport to downtown Vancouver. It was snowing and very cold. Although sleepy, kids walked well to the bus stop. They finally got home around 1 am.

Dinner at Dinah's

They met Pinga's aunt and uncle at Dinah's. They enjoyed fried chicken, mac n cheese and pancakes. Apple pancakes were especially tasty but Coco-chan just wanted a plain pancake.

Power nap

On the way to restaurants, tired twins had nap time. Coco-chan fell asleep first, then QP-chan.

At the playground

After the airport, they walked to a nearby playground. They had much fun.

Santa Monica airport

They went to Santa Monica airport to see mini planes taking off and landing. Twins were more focused on snacking at the beginning but after eating, they watched planes flying by.

Stuffies!

They were at a Japanese supermarket called Tokyo central. There was a corner with stuffies and other cute things and kids found so many things they want. Pinga got them gummies but no stuffies.

Macaron Momo-chan

Momo-chan liked the churro flavour best. He first tried salted caramel but that was too sweet. So he gave it to Pingu who loves salted caramel sweets. 

Macaron time

Pingu got some macarons for the family. QP-chan picked berry one and Coco-chan chose Yuzu.

On the giant wheel

The shopping mall even has carousel and giant wheel. Momo-chan wanted to be on giant wheel so Pinga was on it with him. It went round for three times. They waved to twins and Pingu.

Spectrum of fun

As Pingu was having lunch with his Irvine colleagues, they went to Spectrum mall. There was this nice outdoor play area for kids. The weather was fine and even felt hot when in the sun.

Lunch time

It became bread lunch outside. Coco-chan and Momo-chan chose this matcha chocolate chip bread. QP-chan chose potato cheese bread but didn't eat much. They quickly went back to climbing.

Peko-chan x2?

They were at a Japanese supermarket. Pinga thought QP-chan looks like this Japanese character Peko-chan.

Guess where they were?

At IKEA

They drove to Ikea and had meatball lunch there. Momo-chan enjoyed it a lot but twins not so much. Twins are Americanized or Canada-nized and like french flies with ketchup a lot.

Gacha gacha

Momo-chan went with Pingu to buy a computer part. Twins were with Pinga at a Japanese supermarket. Pinga said to twins if they behave and help out, they could do this gacha gacha. They were so happy and chose the one they wanted.

Cat QP-chan

QP-chan likes cute things. She really liked these animal hairbands. Pinga ended up buying one for her.

Flying ace lego

Coco-chan was so tired and slept 12 hours and woke up happy. Then he made Snoopy's airplane with the help of Pinga.

Park closing time

They had so much fun and stayed until the park closing time at 6pm. QP-chan was so scared of all the roller coasters and other rides at the beginning but she did try some rides. Coco-chan was brave enough to try mini roller coaster together with Momo-chan at the end.

Huff and puff

This was twins favourite attraction and they did it ten times or so. They need to move their vehicle s themselves. Look at this movie for how they do it.

https://youtu.be/_8y9XfxYrbg

Hello Snoopy!

They said hello to Snoopy. He was friendly and fluffy! There was no line and they could take many photos with him.

Flying Coco-chan

It was Coco-chan's first attraction at Knott's berry firm. QP-chan was scared and just repeated "I don't want to ride." Coco-chan was brave enough to ride it alone.

Izzy and twins

They went to see their friends and also got to walk with them. They have two small dogs and one of them is called Izzy. She is very friendly and patient. They had fun with her. The other dog is one year old chihuahua and he was not at all friendly like her.

Snack on campus

It's not hot but not at all cold and no rain so they just sat and had snack. UCLA has new conference centre and the pavilion behind the kids had make over as well and looks very different from what Pinga knew. Well, she graduated almost 17 years ago so no wonder...

In Westwood

They drove up to Westwood to see their friends who work at UCLA. They went to their usual pizza restaurant. After that, they walked to UCLA campus.

Unicorn and QP-chan

QP-chan loves unicorns and whenever she finds them, gets excited. She is loving her new unicorn hoody too.

Leaving for L.A.

They are at the airport waiting for their flight to take off now.

Hello bear!

They could both sit or cuddle on this big teddy bear.