Saturday, April 29, 2023

Pokemon card game

Here's Coco-chan playing Pokemon card with his cousin. Twins have learned the rules and now they can play by themselves. Great!

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Swim test

Twins have been to swim lessons twice a week. Coco-chan is at yellow class, second level. QP-chan was at red class, first level. There was a test as it was the end of the month. To everyone's relief, QP-chan passed the test and she can go to yellow class next month. Good job, QP-chan. Coco-chan did well too but he couldn't move onto the next class, white class.

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Gyoza dinner

It was not only gyoza for dinner but that was the dish twins were lost excited about. They ate many of them.

Monday, April 24, 2023

Sukiyaki dinner

It was cold with the highest 16C degrees, Pinga's mom decided on sukiyaki for dinner. It was delicious and twins ate well.

Sunday, April 23, 2023

On the sea bus

They took sea bus to red brick warehouse area. It left Yokohama at 14:50. It became sunnier and warmer than in the morning.

Pokemon center

They went to Yokohama to meet their friends. After being at kids playland called Hapipi land, they had lunch and visited Pokemon center. As it's popular, their friend went to get a numbered ticket so that they could go in at a specified time. Luckily, Pokemon cards were not sold out there.

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Homework time

Twins have a routine. They come back home and they do homework. Pinga prepared snack for them too. They are having tough time remembering kanji.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Learning Pokemon battle

Pinga took the twins to their favorite toy store. On the second floor, there are card game events on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Pinga had to take the work call but twins stayed there for more than an hour and played with some other kids.

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Kinomiya shrine

Pinga visited one of the major tourist spots in Atami. This shrine has very old and big Kusunoki tree.

SL in Atami

Pinga was in Atami for hot springs. On front of the station was this steam locomotive. It made her think of her friend in Sweden that loves trains and gave model steam locomotive to Momo-chan.

Monday, April 17, 2023

Nikuman breakfast

Here are twins eating nikuman, meat bao, for breakfast. Coco-chan ate it all but QP-chan just ate half of it. They are so into kids TV these days.

Sunday, April 16, 2023

Let's go for a walk

As Coco-chan was doing Minecraft with his cousin and Qp-chan, mobile phone games, Pinga decided to take them out for a walk. But then it started to rain and they had to change their destination to somewhere nearer.

Evacuation drill at school

Twins had school in the morning. Parents could go and watch them study so Pinga went and observed the lessons. It was interesting to see how different Japanese lecture could be depending on who teaches it. After two subjects, there was an evacuation drill. Twins came back home with their disaster prevention hood on. Pinga thought it's kind of cute.

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Arrived at school

Here's Coco-chan saying good bye to Pinga. They joined a group of kids that go to school together. A parent goes to school together with them to make sure they get to school safely. From today, it's Pinga's turn for five days to see them off to school.

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Yoyo twins

Twins wanted yoyo but it was not easy for Pinga to find it. She ordered online and they came today. Twins were practicing it almost all the time after school except when they were doing their homework and eating dinner.

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Clock song

QP-chan was eager to leave for school. But then the clock song started on tv and she started to move with it. Before this, QP-chan tried to put on the backpack on her back while wearing pajama top. QP-chan is funny.

Monday, April 10, 2023

After the swim class

Here are twins after the swim lesson. They were working hard and got moni drinks from Pinga. The wind was blowing strong.

Homework time

They cane back home with homework. One was to read a poem, the other was to work with kanji. They had tough time with kanjis.

Good morning

Twins needs to get up around 7am so that they could get to school at 8. They were sleepy as usual.

Thursday, April 6, 2023

First day of school

It was twins first day of school. They joined the same group to walk to school together. It was just an hour at school to find out which classroom they belong and some more introduction.

Friends reunion

Pinga arranged a playdate with one of the twins classmates. He was good at networking and recruited two other kids from the same class Coco-chan went. Including their siblings, there were seven kids. They had fun together for two hours.

Hello cat robot

Pinga's mom took then out for lunch and there they found cat robots again. They enjoyed Chinese lunch delivered by the cat robots.

Sunday, April 2, 2023

After the swim training

Pinga went to swimming with Coco-chan yesterday and QP-chan today. Here's QP-chan after swimming. Pinga promissed tp get a drink and snack of she made a good effort. She tried hard for an hour so she got an apple juice and a snack.

After swimming

As there was a swimming class test on Monday, Pinga took Coco-chan on Saturday and Qp-chan took today to swimming pool. 

Saturday, April 1, 2023

Gacha gacha

Twins wanted to do this gacha machine. So they tried it on their way home. Momo-chan chose Moomin mascot and QP-chan, Sumikkogurashi light.

Japanese garden

They went to see their friend at Hotel New Otani and there was a Japanese garden at the hotel. There were still cherry blossoms and it was beautiful.