This is us. We are not great (as our friends and family know) at keeping in regular touch and sending frequent photos. We hope to document big events and/or random good pics we though were worth sharing.
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| Excited to *finally* start kindergarten. |
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| Outside the school doors on Day 1. |
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| Walking to school on day 2. |
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| Starting their way to school... |
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| I asked them to stand holding their new lunch bags that I sewed just in time for school. |
posted by mel mn at 4:18 p.m.
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| Bertha wanted to bowl for her birthday this year. |
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| Bowling in style. |
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| A violin card - very creative (Kerry!). |
posted by mel mn at 3:40 p.m.
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| Aidan wanted this pose while holding 3 "fish" pencil cases from Grandma & Grampa. |
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| Bertha's a star with chopsticks now. |
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| Ninja attire in the ninja village. |
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| Bertha practicing her ninja skills (blowing a pin at a target). |
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| Hmmmm.... |
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| A cute frog on Maya's shoulder. |
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| Aidan's favourite meal - zaru soba (with tempura sometimes). |
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| We moved around THAT much that we traveled between cities with these suitcases in tow. |
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| Lunch on the bullet train. |
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| On the shinkan-sen. |
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| Aidan buying train tickets with Grampa (in Tokyo). |
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| One of several shrines that we visited. |
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| A cool dessert on a hot day in Tokyo. |
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| Hiroshima on Memorial Day. |
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| Miyaji-shima: notice the non-symmetrical vertical posts (they are real tree trunks). |
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| Up close...you can only walk out that far when the tide is out. |
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| You'll have to ask Scott and Bertha how cool they were trying to be. |
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| I didn't buy it. |
posted by mel mn at 3:38 p.m.
