Aina

After 5 years, she’s redoing the Kebaya theme for the Racial Harmony Day at school. The kebaya from 5 years ago had been outgrown, but she found another set in…

Finally, the day has come. Aina has to wear glasses now… The school had the HPB come and test the kids, and she ended up with 6/18 vision. I don’t…

This morning, we were much less stressed out than the first competition. We were more relaxed and less high strung. My make up for her went much better than last…

Today was the first competition day: the Japan Ballet Competition 2017, in Fukuoka. We planned to leave the hotel at 9:30am, so we had to get up a bit earlier…

Aina gave me one of the her best surprises this afternoon. Earlier this morning, we were talking about how my room looked like when I was a kid. I told…

Aina had been wanting to go swimming for a while. But her ballet schedule is very tight, she hasn’t had time to go out at all. So since today is…

Happy Halloween! This year, we skipped the Chip Bee Gardens Trick or Treat Night and didn’t throw our annual Halloween Party. We were kinda sad, but with Aina’s super tight…

The other day, Aina told me that she imagined that the mold growing in our backyard were composed of very tiny round balls of the mold family…. This was her…

Since it’s school holidays, Aina had a lot more free time than her usual schooldays. So she’s been doing more craft than usual. This morning, I showed her a few…

This year marked Aina’s 5th year in participating at Cold Storage Kids Run. And it was also her first time joining the 1.6km distance, twice as long as her previous…

Today, I got a pizza delivery from Aina… A thin-crust pepperoni pizza, family size, to be exact. Our favorite 🙂

Wearing her new school bag that she got from Santa Claus last Christmas. She was super happy, because she’s been wanting this bag for years! First Day of 3rd Grade!…