February photos

Random photos from January.....

Max was babysitting Mika, so he took her outside to draw with chalk and then they watched a movie and ate dinner in the livingroom. They ate Taco Rice!

Max and Yumi playing the Wii game and having fun.

Bats in the tree outside my bedroom. They're very loud sometimes!

Xin Nian Kuai Le---the year of the dragon.

We had a wonderful time celebrating the Chinese new year. We ate lots of great food and had fun decorating our house.

We hung a few lanterns in her room.

Picking up some of our food at a Chinese restaurant.

Waiting to pick up some of our special dinner at Kitakaisen.

Mika helped bring dinner to the table.

Sharing her almond cake with Daddy. Our friends sent these from Taiwan especially for the new year.

MONEY, money, money for the new year!!!

Mika had fun with the poppers! We couldn't light fireworks on base, so we used poppers instead.

Time to move....again.

It's official. We received our orders and we're moving to Camp Pendleton California on June 25th.
Max is very sad about leaving....which is making me cry. Nippon honto ni skii des ne.

Military Appreciation Performance

A performance troupe visited Okinawa for a military appreciation event and gave us a free acrobat show. The seating was first come first serve, so David went early and stood in line to get our tickets. The line was wrapped around the building, it was crazy! The show was great though, and it was fun to see something new.

Mika LOVED the hula hoop girl!

We stayed afterwards and asked to take a photo with the performers. They were very nice.

A fun day with Mika

Mika wanted to pretend that she was the Mommy today. We did finger painting and made cupcakes. Max helped us frost them when he came home from school.
She wore her apron for most of the day and also helped me clean a little. We had fun! These photos were taken in January, sorry it took me so long to post them!

She made a shopping list for the supermarket. (cupcake ingredients!)

She used a big rubberband to attach her Mickey Mouse to the scooter and said she was drivng him to school!

Max showed her how to frost the cupcakes.

TA-DA!!!!!!

Max and Mika photos

Max couldn't eat an ice cream on this day because he can only have sweets when he eats a meal before it. He went with us though and showed Mika how to play an IPod game-Sushi Ninja. It's fun!

Mika got treated to an ice cream because she took her step stool to the laundry room and tried to put the wet laundry into the dryer by herself!! She was too short to reach into the washing machine and came and asked me to help her. That's when I found out what she had tried to do. I was SO PROUD of her!!!

Having fun in the bubble bath.