Skiing QP-chan

QP-chan and Pinga went skiing again. They left right after lunch and there were many people at Grouse Mountain. One of the lifties recognized QP-chan.

Shaun the sheep pancake

Pinga made Shaun the sheep pancake this morning. Momo-chan and Coco-chan liked them. QP-chan requested unicorn pancake so she made it too.

Purple rash

Coco-chan's legs, arms and hips look like this with rash. His joints are inflamed and warm. Poor Coco-chan...

Hospital again

Coco-chan and Pinga went to St. Paul's hospital again for follow-up appointment. His condition was not so bad when visiting Dr but the condition seems to worsen in the evening.

Church playtime

While Coco-chan took it easy at home, QP-chan joined playtime at church. She likes to sing and dance.

Aquarium

They stayed home in the afternoon and made this mini aquarium. There are squids, star fish, Nemo, and rainbow fish.

To the preschool

Since Coco-chan was in pain, just QP-chan went to preschool.

Henoch-Schönlein purpura ヘノッホ・シェーンライン紫斑病

From all the symptoms he has, Coco-chan was diagnosed as HSP. It's a inflammation of blood vessels. Because of that, Coco-chan has pain in his stomach and his legs. It's good to finally find out what it is but that doesn't really help Coco-chan relieving from pain. The doctor said within one month, he would get better. That sounds like a looooong time...

St Paul's hospital again

Coco-chan and Pinga were at the hospital yet another time. Pinga was really hoping doctors figure out what Coco-chan has correctly this time. Appointment was at 1 pm but the dr came at 1:50.

Mickey themed birthday party

As the birthday boy has been to Disneyland, he became a fan of Mickey mouse and it was a Mickey themed party.

Birthday party

Their preschool friend had a birthday party at the community centre. Twins went and had fun.

Hospital gown Coco-chan

After 4 hours of waiting in the hall, Coco-chan was finally called his name and escorted to this room. He changed to the gown and waiting for a doctor now.

Back at the emergency

Coco-chan is in pain again even though he took pain killers and they are supposed to be in effect still. So they went to emergency at BC children's hospital. Line is long and tired coco-chan fell asleep.

At the emergency

Coco-chan couldn't sleep much because of the stomach pain. As it seemed to get worse, Pinga took him to an emergency at St. Pauls hospital. Although he has constant and severe pain, they just checked by touching and urine sample and he got discharged. They gave painkillers and told them to come back if it gets worse.

Sick Coco-chan

Coco-chan has been having stomach pain since Wednesday. It doesn't seem to go away...

Picking Momo-chan up

As Pingu is away in Seattle, twins and Pinga went to pick Momo-chan up from his after school care. They were happy with Pokemon ottotto snack.

Opening presents

Here they are opening presents. They got very excited.

Waiting for presents

After bathing, they opened presents. Here they are waiting for them.

Birthday cakes

As Coco-chan wanted strawberry cake and QP-chan, chocolate cake, they got both of them. The end result... both of them liked strawberry cream pie more. Momo-chan liked the chocolate cake but only the sponge cake part.

Twins turned 4

Time flies and twins became 4. They talk a lot and play together well.

Baby cangaroo became kid cangaroo

QP-chan has been skiing with Pinga in between her legs. This afternoon, she became independent and skied by herself like this. So they said she became a kid kangaroo and no longer a baby kangaroo. Good job QP-chan!

Waiting for gondola

QP-chan and Pinga went skiing today. They got to gondola station around 11 and there were not many people. It was raining.

Mickey and Minnie

Today's coordinate looks like this. Cute!

Ready for Hinamatsuri, doll festival

They created origami hina-ningyo with their nanny. Interesting to see how different the faces of dolls are. Doll festival is on March 3.

Houses

This was what QP-chan made. Looks a bit like mushrooms but they are houses.

Craft time

They did craft after having hotdogs. Twins are good at using scissors just like Momo-chan was when he was small.

Family day at community centre

They went to the Coal Harbour community centre for the family day event. There were face painting, balloon art, bouncy castle, etc. Coco-chan asked for lightsaber and QP-chan, an owl.

Fireworks

Fireworks started just when they were finishing eating dinner. QP-chan got mini panic as she is scared of the fireworks. She doesn't like the sound of fireworks. Gradually she got used to it and finally, she stood next to Coco-chan.

S'mores

After skiing was s'mores by the fire. It was cold but they were happy to have grilled marshmallows with graham crackers.

Skiing QP-chan

Boys didn't want to ski but QP-chan did. Pinga was happy to take her to the slope. They took the lift up twice. It was around 5 pm and started to get dark.

Matching snowman

Momo-chan and Coco-chan got these matching snowmen. The artist was finishing up after 2.5 hours of painting and Coco-chan was the lucky one to get painted last.

Finishing touch = sparkles

Here is Coco-chan getting sparkles at the end of his face painting session.

Face painting QP-chan

They were at Cypress Mountain and as it was Family Day weekend, there were events like henna tattoo and face painting. They made it in time for face painting. The artist was very skilled and QP-chan for this.

Happy Valentine's Day

Momo-chan and twins received Valentine's Day cards and presents from their classmates at school. They were very happy.

Basketball Momo-chan

When Pinga went to pick Momo-chan up, he was playing basketball. Pinga said you were doing great. He said no, I'm not good at it.

To the preschool

Coco-chan was still not well so only QP-chan went to preschool today. Coco-chan said to the nanny that he misses QP-chan.

Baking helper

As Coco-chan was sick, they stayed home and Pinga baked gingerbread. QP-chan likes to help out.

"Moola" macaron

Pinga came back with Moola macaron. Mobile phone application she has been working on is called Moola. Momo-chan and twins became very happy as they love macarons.

Sick again

Coco-chan became sick again with high fever. They stayed at home in the afternoon and the fever came down a bit.

Dinner time

They were at Pinga's company suite so there were food and drinks. Momo-chan had a couple of nogiri sushi and a slice of pizza. Then the game started.

To the arena

Momo-chan went to watch hockey game at Rogers arena. It was rivalry game between U.S. and Canadian female teams.

Playtime at church

They enjoyed playing at church.

Sleepy QP-chan

QP-chan woke up but fell asleep again on the sofa in the morning. Zzzz...

Bee QP-chan and Hamtaro Coco-chan

QP-chan likes this Bee outfit a lot. Coco-chan likes Hamtaro these days and he said he was Hamtaro.

Snowing

It was snowing until late afternoon. As Pinga sits by the window, she could watch the snow well.

Lego house

QP-chan made a house with Lego. Twins seem to like Lego a lot.

Crane car

Pinga went to pick twins up from preschool.they were doing Lego. Coco-chan said that it's a crane car.

Fire alarms at 4am

Pinga woke up together with Coco-chan to the fire alarm sound. It was very very loud. Fire alarm went off and firemen came. The reason was unknown but the 7th floor fire alarm went off. It was shut off after 15minutes or so. Then it went off again. After all this, Coco-chan had difficult time falling back to sleep. On the contrary, QP-chan slept through all this without waking up. Momo-chan woke up too.

Setsubun

Setsubun comes a day before the beginning of spring season. The event is accompanied by a ritual to cleanse away the evil and welcome the happiness. Throwing soybeans to oni or demon and say "Demons out, luck in". Well, all the kids were wearing oni mask and did that. Soybeans were  supposed to be thrown to oni. As it was difficult buying roasted soybeans, Pinga got roasted peanuts instead.

Still sick QP-chan

Twins are fever free but they are still coughing. QP-chan is a bit worse than Coco-chan. She couldn't sleep well during night because of coughing and fell asleep like this in the afternoon. Momo-chan is the only one who seems to be more affected by this bad cold.