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life with a kindergartener: Kirakira Precure Ala Mode

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You’ve been egging us to set up our Christmas Tree for a couple of weeks now. But you’ve been egging us to watch the Precure movie for a month now. Hence, when I asked you to choose between Christmas tree setup + pancake or Precure movie, the latter was an easy choice for you. Daddy definitely didn’t want to torture himself to watch the movie and I was convincing you to change your mind as I wasn’t too keen to watch it either. But your mind was set on what you want in that you even said, “I’ll watch by myself!”; as if we will allow that.

I was a SailorMoon fanatic but Precure was too much for me. I don’t feel tortured though whenever I see you happily waving your “Miracle Light” (the Staff gave this on the cinema entrance) every time the heroines in the movie ask the audience to help in combatting the evil force by raising your Miracle Lights up.

You were very excited to attach your light on your bag and I have no doubt you’ll brag about your light tomorrow at daycare and how you now have the same light as some of the other girls.

It was a challenge to watch the movie but seeing you happy and excited makes the challenging 1.5 hours totally worth it.

PS: Where usually it was a challenge to wake you up and make you eat in the mornings, this morning (the morning after) you woke up by yourself and was animatedly eating; excited to show off your miracle light to your friends.

PPS: for our future reference – this movie we saw was how the Kira Kira Precure group (six uberly cute and styled-up, anime style, girls of varying ages) saved the city of Paris-turned-dessert-city from a ghost patisserie.

baby diaries: your first piano recital

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It was an easy piece but quite a challenge in terms of keeping you engaged such that you could keep the right tempo. In all your practice sessions, there were times you moved too fast and other times too slow. But today, your tempo was perfect. 

What I was most proud though? It was that when you made your bow before and after your piece, you lingered in your place and made eye contact with the audience. You owned the stage, my confident little one. 

baby diaries: the first time you shared your broken heart

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No, this isn’t about your first crush. And I know as well that this isn’t the first time that you got broken hearted with a friend. I still remember that morning during your second year in daycare (1 yr old class Futaba gumi) when you reached out to embrace your girl best friend when you saw her arrive, only to be pushed away roughly, just because she was still not in the mood. How you cried then. My heart cried with you too. 

Your broken heart today was also with a friend. For the first time, you shared with me your feelings about something that happened to you at daycare. That how one of your girl friends laughed at your right big toe that still has the flaking blue nail polish. You said you were both embarrassed and angry. I hugged you then and asked you again how you felt. Was happy when you said you feel better with the hug. 

Saw it as a chance too to teach you the lesson that we should not laugh at other people. That it’s not funny. That you should make a stand and tell the other person how it isn’t funny. 

And I warmed as I see you getting passionate and saying that in daycare, Japanese is spoken so you should speak in the language. Asked you how to say in Japanese. And then you translated what you ought to say, perfectly (笑った、だめ!!); complete with the right expression on your face and your hands in your hips. 

We did still remove your nail polish but I hope that you learned and will stand up for yourself against bullies. 

Be brave my lovely little one. 

6th for A&M

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Today was laid back and nice; the weather beautiful and perfect for walking around after Church. Perfect for reflections and thanksgiving, most specially since Yui didn’t throw any tantrum and was such a big sport at the museum – totally had her voice down the whole time! 

But what really touched me was how Yui highlighted our anniversary day, twice today. 

We walked by a billboard with a woman on a wedding dress and her man looking at her. Yui stopped and exclaimed excitedly that “Mommy also wore the same beautiful dress and Daddy was the Prince! And then you both danced!”

Later, while we were sitting and waiting for the bus, Yui, seated between us, gathered both our heads together and exclaimed happily, “Mommy, Daddy, happily ever after ne! Yui wa, dou ka na; mada ka na (how about Yui; maybe it’s not yet my time)”. That last sentence she uttered with a sigh. 

There’s much to be thankful for. But we are most thankful for you, dear Yui, for the person that you are. Little still, yet big of heart. 

life with a kindergartener: first love

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You over the weekend. 

Luis aite ni yokattara. Luis no uchi ikitai. Luis ga suki! 

It would be good to see Luis. I want to see Luis and visit him in his home. I love Luis!

Well, you probably don’t mean it in the romantic way and you were probably thinking more of his toy dinosaurs and dragons. But then again, he is the first who’s outside of our family whom you said you love. ❤️😍