Party month! パーティ月間

やたら忙しく過ぎて行った１０月。
うちの車がボロいので、それを修理しないといけない状態になり、そのことで金銭問題が。。。＾＾：で、私は今週３働き、夜には子供時間で寝ている毎日でございます。。。



OH MY GOSH, It is already Halloween season!!!
I have been sooo busy in this month. We had a cash catastrophe early this month because of our crappy car, so we decided I work three days a week, Thursdays and Fridays and Sundays. ( before I work on 2 days a week, only weekends.)So I always fall asleep with kids at 9 which means no time to sit down in front of my computer at all...



それはさておき、喜音もとっても忙しい一ヶ月でした。毎週末はだれかの誕生日パーティ、それからついにHalloweenにもなって、本当にパーティ月間！

アメリカ人のバースディパーティって本当にやる気！もうすっごく凝っていて毎回驚かされる。今回、私が週２、見ている子の誕生日パーティにも呼ばれたんだけど、この子は器械体操の教室でのパーティでした。

色々ゲームをさせてくれたり、全部の器具を使わせてくれたりとその教室の人がすべてやってくれる。こういうのがけっこうどこの施設にもあるんだよね。動物園とか、水族館とか、バレエクラスとか。。。。うちも家狭いしこういうところにお願いできたらすごく楽ねんけどな〜。。。。もちろん、結構お値段もはりますねん。。。

Yukine had also really busy busy month. She was invited some one's birthday party on every weekends. I wonder if October was popular month to give birth to babies for Yukine's generation???
Anyway, I'm always impressed with American parent's efforts to make their kid's special day. Some people have a party at their house, some people ask the company or places they offer Birthday plans. Whichever way you choose, it's a big deal, I think... I have to think about Yukine's birthday party too....She wants to invite people more than last year... hummmmm....

One of the parties, we all were invited by the boy whom I'm watching 2days a week. They had the party at gymnastic school.It was a good time for me to know how they arrange kids's birthday party, though we don't have a gym at our house :p



もうHalloweenの時期。まずはCommunity Center のパーティへ。

Halloween is coming too!!! We went to the pumpkin bush at our neighbor's community center. Yukine was a pumpkin, and Kanata had a tail and ears :) Yukine met her best friend , but she haven't seen her for like 3months because she is going to a kindergarten from this fall, so she was too shy to play together again.
これはYMCAっていう私がヨガにいってたり、スポーツジムのパーティ。
明日はHalloween　当日、どこでもTrick or Treatをしてるみたいだけど、どこへいこうかな？？？
またアップします。
We are going to go to two parties tonight, so I will update soon :)

ハナタレ A runny nose boy

一ヶ月くらいよくなったり悪くなったり。。。ずっとはな垂れ奏大くん。
パジャマ着せると汗かくし、着せないと布団から出ているから治らない・・・どうしたもんか。

あ、ちなみに奏大の髪の毛散髪してみました。私が。ま、とりあえず外は歩けそう。


Runny nose Kanata gets better yet :-( It's been for a month. He always kicked his blanket during the night. Everytime we put him extra clothes, he would be too hot and sweaty...hummm.... I don't know what should I do with him.. I should have get up in the midnight, and then put him a blanket again...but I can't wake up like so late time :-p

Oh, by the way, I gave him a haircut. It was not bad acutually :-) Brit is still scared of letting me cut his though. It's not bad!!

今年は。。。 This year's...

喜音のハロウィンのコスチューム。　つくってみました〜＾＾　

（すごくてきとうで、縫い目とか汚いから近くで見てはいけない。）


Yukie's Halloween costume ;) However I made them, you can't see them up close, I'm not good at sawing, so they are not beautiful and wonderful, but I'm proud of me I made it! Good enough good enough! hehe :p

ある日のごはん

前に作ったライブレッド。　ライ麦２０％くらいなのですごく軽い。Whole Wheat（全粒粉）も入れたからその味のが強かったかも。

Above : Rye Bread.

I made it first time I mean Rye bread. It was good, but I put only 20% rye, no sour dough, and added whole- wheat too, so it tasted more like Whole wheat bread.
Veg Burger　肉なしバーガー。　これはブラックビーンズってので作ってあるんだけど、
ハンバーガーと思わず、こういう別のものと思うと美味しい。肉でないものを肉としてってのは無理があるからね。

最近、ヨガを始めてから肉をあまり体が欲しいと言わなくなった。他のことも考えるとベジタリアンっていうのも一つの選択肢だと思う。といっても完璧にいきなりは難しいから、だんだん自分の食べたいものを食べるようにしている。このVeg　Burgerのそのひとつ。

The picture is a veg Burger. I don't want to eat red meat so much recently, so I made a veg burger when Brit made a beef burger. It is different from "Burger" , of course, but it's testy as a black beans pate. I liked it :)
After I started doing yoga, I don't need to eat meats little by a little. It's interesting though. Anyway, I don't know I would be a vegetarian someday though, I enjoy no meat food too for now:)

アルカンサからのお客様 The guest from Arkansas.

ブリ豚が日本でインターンシップをしていた時にお世話してくれたお友達がシアトルへ。うちに泊まってくれました。
高校卒業後からこっちに留学、今はアルカンサの大学に通っている彼。若いのに（おばちゃん発言）しっかり自分の意志をもっていて、しっかりしてるな〜と感心。しかも！彼も出身が長野だったり。いやいや、信濃の国」を歌える仲間に会うと嬉しくなるね〜



子供たちもすぐになついて、たくさん遊んでもらっちゃったしアルカンサからのおみやげもたくさんいただきました。ありがとう！

Last week, we had a guest from Arkansas. He was doing an internship at the same place as Brit in Japan, and he helped Brit a lots over there. He came here to see UW for his grad school next year, so he stayed at our place for two nights. In addition, he is from Nagano!!!! ,which is same as me!! It's a small world, isn't it? :o We could sing the prefecture's song together! ( Only Nagano people know thier prefecture's song in Japan, so the story is very famous among Japanese, and becoming a joke.) Anyway, He is really cool guy, we all like him, especially Yukine and Kanata was enjoyed playing with him, thank you so much for taking care of our kids! Hopefully, he will come back to Seattle again, and
see each other soon!!






←This is takoyaki maker, most of Kansai (Western Japan) people have it at lease one at home.

そして、夜はブリ豚の院の友達も呼んでたこ焼きパーティ。たこ焼き器を日本から友達に頼んで入手したの。いやいや、私も関西人？？？たこ焼き器がない生活は辛かった！笑

この上の写真は私が作った、長野名物「おやき」これは北信といって長野市のほうのやり方で皮が小麦粉、私たち南信は米粉を使うの。今度は米粉で作ってみよう。
中身はなすの油味噌と切干大根の煮物。
ひさびさに食べたらおいしかった＾＾

またぜひ遊びにも、UWにも来てね＾＾

So, we had a Takoyaki ( Octopus balls, which is a popular food in Kansai area.)party with him and Brit's UW friends :) It was so much fun! I was kinda busy to make food tho, I enjoyed the party.

The above picture is Oyaki which is Nagano's traditional local food, it's like gyoza (dumping) or Chinese buns, inside is eggplants instead of meat though. Brit loves it, I didn't know until this summer, he ate it when he was doing internship in Nagano city, so that was my first time to make it. It was good too and very easy to make :)