03-31 thru 04-07

 月曜日、普段は午前中だけみる友達の子供を

今月は全日でみることになっている

ということで昼食の床の片付けはいやだーと思ったワタシ

裏の庭（ていうほど凄くない）でピクニック

Monday- I usually watch my friend's boy just for the morning as a baby swap.

But for this month, I'm watching him for the all day Monday.

Anyhow, I just got tired of cleaning up the messy floor after they eat.

I decided to have a little picnic outside of our house.

 

Kyle stood up on top of the little hill and screams

"Okaasan!(Mom!) It's Kyle's temple!"

Such a LDS kid... He is obsess with temples nowadays and especially with the angel that sits on top.

 火曜日、午前中にお友達を呼んで、手づくりで粘土を作った

で、午後学校から帰ってきたショーンは粘土に熱中

が、色分けして作ったのをぜーんぶごちゃまぜにされた。ガーン

Tuesday, I invited one of our good friends to come make a home made play dough.

I color coded and everything but once Sean came home, he mixed all up...gees!

 が、初めて自分の家族を認識した作品を作った

ので関心：一番大きいのがお父さん、次がお母さんで自分、そして一番小さいのが弟らしい

ちょっとした成長をみせた彼でした

Despite my disappointment, he made his family which showed that he started recognize people around him more.  The biggest one is the dad and the next is mom, himself and Kyle.

Finally, he is passing this mile stone! yey!!

 

水曜日、古着屋半額デー

ということでしばらく顔出してなかった古着屋へ

で、古着じゃなくて新品買った！しかも付いてる額の半額

つまりプーマのシャツはもともと＄２０が約＄３に

そして子供の教会用のワイシャツも。素敵です☆

Wednesday-It's a thrift shop's half off day. 

Since I haven't been there for a while, I decided to check it out.

It's a "thrift" shop but I bought some things brand new! 

I was so proud of myself with these smart purchases that I had to show off~

puma shirt:originally $20 I paid $3

Sean's church shirt, I paid $1.50

That's the way I shop!

Sean has a great teacher who is so loving and is patient.

She has these schedules for each kid in her class room and I needed to make one at home for Sean.

I always wanted to have a sample schedule for preschoolers so if you are someone  who is looking for PECS sample schedule, here you go!

 金曜日、これネットのどこかでみて気になってやってみた

机下即席ハンモック

ただブランケットくくっただけ

だけど大ヒット！これいいです。

Friday-I saw this idea on a website and thought of trying it out.

Just tie a blanket on a table. 

So easy but it turned out such a big hit for my boys.

Great idea!

 Kyle made a godzilla!

 今週の一品

天津飯、ほうれん草ごま和え、きゅうりの漬け物、わかめスープ

This week's dish

wakame soup, spinach and sesame salad, pickled cucumbers with carrots and ginger, Chinese rice

 トイレトレーニング頑張れよ〜

全然ダメな彼。オマルが寂しそうに後ろにボヤケて映ってます。はい。

A guy in potty training.. well, I wish he is more interested in it.

The potty in the back looks little sad to me!

 I was looking at GAP Kids and found some cute cardigans etc but couldn't afford them.

So, I came across this site and used my old sweat shirt and made Sean's cardigan in one night.

Super easy and cute!

 給料日＆夕飯作る気無い＝外食！

近所の評判、アカ寿司さんで。すごいでしょー

美味しかったです

It was a pay day and I didn't have energy to cook.

It led us to take out sushi!

It was so good.

 It was a conference weekend so I decided to bake something yummy.

pecan, mac nuts, caramel cinnamon rolls!

 In Hawaii, the general conference starts at 6a.m. 

So, between the sessions, we took the boys to a park close to our house.

カイルがこけたのでショーン 慰めに行ってみた

 Kyle fell so Sean went over to comfort Kyle in his arm

 ポーズまでしてみた

He even posed for the camera

 が、その次の瞬間。最近の悪い癖

髪舐め攻撃！

But the next moment, his bad habit surfaces:

the hair lick!

カイルそそくさと逃げる。痛みも忘れた様子。笑

 Kyle runs away as if he forgot he was hurt! haha

Oh brother!

03-24 thru 03-31

今週も彼の一枚から始まります

うちの緑お化け

ショーンのセラピーのために頂いたボディーソックルとかいう物

この頃は弟の遊び道具に変わってしまっています

振り向いたら、こんなんがボーッと立ってたら怖いでしょ？笑

Our first shot today is again our little crazy guy

He calls himself "a green ghost"

We got this thing called "body sock" from Sean's teacher to use it for his therapy

but nowadays, we find his brother wearing it as his favorite toy..

 It is pretty creepy if he is quietly standing right behind you when you turn around. haha

 Monday-Ian went fishing with his friend and caught a trampet fish

we made clam/fish chowder with it

 金曜日はカイルの近所の友達二人の誕生会にさそわれていた

でもここは近くに可愛いおもちゃやが一軒のみ

しかも可愛いものをお手頃価格で買えることはあまり期待できません

しかも友達二人ともかなり沢山おもちゃは持っている。。

ときたらどうしよう？と考えた私。

pinterestでみたら、peg dollsっていう可愛いもの発見！

私的に子供には木のおもちゃを持たせたい私

これはいい。と思って早速作ってみた。

しかも袋も縫って、タグまで作っちゃいました。

ストレス発散〜　かわいいでしょ？ね？

Friday-We were invited to two of Kyle's friends' birthday party

Since we live so far away from stores and those boys already have many toys

I was struggling finding something that would be good 

I (of course) went on pinterest and saw some cute peg dolls 

I personally prefer giving my boys play with wooden toys

So, I thought these dolls would be perfect gifts

I painted little clothpins (Ian did the white cat), sewed the bag and made the tag to go with it.

Aren't they cute? I had so much fun making them.

 

 

 

 そのpinterestにまたハマった私

子供たちの遊びで、重曹に色つけたお酢をたらしてシュワーってなるのを

楽しむ遊びを発見

させてみました

ある子は２時間も遊んでくれたって書いてあったからかなり期待したけど

ショーン１５分持った。。それだけ？　意外と期待はずれでした

OK, you might tease me for all of my pinterest crasiness.

I saw this baking soda&vinegar activity for the kids and someone said that it kept their kid for two hours. I was so excited to keep my boys quiet for that long time.

It kept Sean shut up for only 15mins!  I guess every kid is different.. gees!

 Well, they had fun, though. It counts.

while they were doing that, Ian made humburgers out of big island beef(grass fed!).

I added mango quinoa salad and oven fried sweet potatoes to it. yum!

 Again, pinterest! (I know, I did so much this week. I got addicted to it.)

 I was amazed how all the stores here in Waimea actually ran out of plastic egg shells before the Easter Sunday. I guess that's one of those things that I need to get used to by living in a county side.

Well, Ian still wanted to have our own simple egg hunt at home.

So I made diy egg shells :) just used the egg container!

 The kids got a copy of March 2012 Friend magazine

about our Savior's last week and the ressurection

My friend told us her idea of cutting them off in to each day and put it in each egg

I thought that was a great idea so i did do that

I think I will make this our family tradition

 教会の後近所でイースターエッグハントしました

うちの子たちは卵の色付けもままならず

そして卵見つけても食べてばかり

あんま意味分かってなかったみたいですが

楽しかった模様です

After church, we had egg hunt with our neighbors

My kids didn't even do egg coloring 

and when it came to egg hunt, 

they sat down started eating candies inside

They didn't really understand the purpose of it but oh well, they had fun.

 

 Happy Easter, everyone!

Since Easter is not about bunnies and eggs, we had our family home evening on Monday night watched about the true meaning of Easter. 

The boys were watching it very seriously and seemed they were thinking a lot after that.

They talked about him a lot and we could teach them about why he had to do that for us.

I don't know how much they actually understood it but hope they felt his love for them.

Here is the video. I am grateful for our Savior and what he has done for us so that we could live again. 

week of 03-17 thru 03-24(spring break春休み)

 一週間半の春休み開幕！　ということで普段なら前の日の残り物弁当で済ませるはずの昼食がちょっと手がかかる。。が、がんばって春らしい一品に。

庭でとれた香菜、ワイメア産紫芋と人参と牛蒡、マウイ産玉ねぎのかき揚げうどん！ 

ベジタリアンなり。そして美味しかった。健康的な幕開けです。

A week and a half long spring break started! What I usually do for lunch is to pack left over dinner for the next day lunch but since everyone is home, I felt like I needed to cook something warm(and spring-ly). This is what I created. I named it "Vegetarian Kakiage Udon". It's made with cilantro from our garden, purple potato&carrots&gobo(burdock) from Waimea, Maui sweet onion. It looked pretty and was tasty. Good healthy start for the break!

  

ショーン一発でコロ無し自転車に乗れるようになる。

（動画がなぜかアップできません。すみません。）

２歳半の時に買ってもらったバランスバイクをマスターして以来、

普通の自転車に乗せてみたことはなかった私たち

ガレージセールで５ドルで手に入れた自転車に乗ってみた彼、

バランスバイクの成果あってか一発でマスター

自閉症の診断のときはバランスがとれてないと言われていたが

７歳でコロ無しマスターした私に言わせれば

これは快挙！なのだが。。親ばかか。。

Sean masted riding his "big boy bike" on his first try.

(sorry, I can't upload the video for some reason!)

His grandma bought him a balance bike when he was two and a half years old and since then, we hadn't tried getting him a new bike until we found $5 bike at a garage sale the other day.

At his autism evaluation, the doctor said that he has an issue with balance 

but for me(who mastered riding on a bike at age 7), I felt like he was doing super.

 

 Our friend at church invited us to go to a beach and they let us use their paddle boats.

We didn't know this pretty beach existed so close to our house.(it only took 20mins drive!)

We had a lot of fun!

教会の友達がビーチに誘ってくれて、パドルボートもかしてくれた。

こんな奇麗なビーチが我が家から２０分のところに存在していたなんて！知らなかった私たち。楽しかった！！

  

 そして次の日は、違う友達にカヤックを借りてまたこのビーチに行ってみた

初めてのオーシャンカヤック。大して遠くまでは行かなかったけど、子供たち二人とも良い子してました。このまま海に浮かばせておこうかと思ったくらい。笑

その行きに道路からクジラ発見！でもしぶきしか映ってない。まだまだダメなカメラさばき。情けない！

Next day, we borrowed a kayak from another friend and went to the same beach. It was the first time for our kids to get on the ocean kayak. We didn't go too far but both boys were pretty good in there. I even got tempted to just let them float on the ocean just to keep them calm! haha On the way to get to the beach, we spotted whales jumping. But as you can see, I only got their splashes.. gees! I need to get better with my camera skill!!

久〜しぶりに（強調）イアンが作ってくれた男の料理

トマトと豆のトルティーヤスープ

美味しかったです

子供たちにはティラノサウルスとステゴザウルスのトルティーヤつき。

ま、飾り付けは私がやったんですけどねー

Ian cooked! yes, he did!! I enjoyed not worrying about cooking for a night.

It was tasty, too. It's tomato, black beans and corns tortilla soup.

Our little dinosaur fanatics got T-Rex and stegosaurus shaped tortillas on the soup!

Well, Ian wasn't girly enough to decorate them.. so I did :)

 Sunday-We had a big change in our ward

Our ward was split into two wards

Even though we have been here for such a short time, it was a bitter and sweet moment for everyone

I personally feel like I don't fit in to a big ward anyways so I am happy with having a smaller ward now.

Anyhow, speaking of our ward, Ian found a you tube video about this boy who comes to our ward that has been helping us to have hope and faith.

I will just copy/paste what Ian wrote on his facebook here.

This is an incredible young boy from our ward here in Waimea. He has stunned and touched us many times because of his humility. He also has given us hope for Sean, that there may be some gifts of his own hiding amisdt his disability. Bravo, Kuha'o!

この人は私たちのワイメア第１ワードの会員の一人です。彼の信仰と謙遜さに私たちは何度も感激させられています。また障害を抱えている我が子ショーンにも隠れた才能があるかもしれないという希望を抱かせてくれる存在です。頑張れ、クハオ！

03-10-13 thru 13-17-13

水曜日と木曜日は去年の夏に広島で会ったママ友が子連れで遊びに来てくれました

水曜日はコナとワイメアと夜のマウナケア星観測、木曜日はヒロと、大忙しの二日間でした

ここワイメアの人気スポット、ハワイアンスタイルカフェにて朝食

噂のハウピアパンケーキの大きさにびっくり

 Wednesday and Thursday, our friend who we met this last summer in Hiroshima came to visit us.

She came with her son so Kyle and I spent some fun time with them when Sean was at school.

We went out to eat at a popular cafe called "Hawaiian Style Cafe" here in Waimea.

We ordered the famous haupia pancakes and was overwhelmed by how BIG they were!

 My friend was lucky. She barely missed the wet days that came after those two days.

It was so cold and I did not want to get outside..but, the boys wanted to keep running.

Here they were in the paddles.

Sunday-We went to church in the morning and after church, my friend's five kids came over to make pizzas with us. 

 

 monster?!

 clover(yes, it was St.Patrick's day!)

 smiley face:)

 Dinosaur

 Whale

 Skeleton with lots of eyes

 Truck!