New responsibilities in the Blue Sky class

One of the big changes for Jolon this year is the pre-lunch routine. This year the kids have to do more than just carry the dishes to the tables as they've been doing for the past 2 years. Now if it's your group's turn to be in charge of lunch, you have to don an apron and a hat and divide the rice, the salads, and the soup into all 22 individual bowls and plates. After things are divided equally, then they'll serve the rest of the class. Every so often an apron and hat come home for us to wash and then return to school the next day.

Baby Kellan and new brother, Jolon, video

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The first clip is from Apr. 3rd, 07, so Jolon is about 2 years and 4 months and Kellan is just over 2 months old.  The next one Jolon is 2 and half and Kellan is right at 4 months old.  I really wanted to find some footage of Jolon at about the same age as Kellan is now to compare.

In the second clip I'm asking Jolon about which kids are in which hans (small groups).  It's especially funny to us because this is the exact question we ask Kellan all the time these days.

Tomorrow I'll put up a few recent clips of Kellan for comparison.

Kellan's second birthday

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We celebrated Kellan turning 2 again in Feb. while we were visiting in TN.  Aunt Gail made a fabulous airplane cake and all the cousins came down for the party.  You can really see the excitement in his eyes as the cake is being presented.

Kagura from Oct. 2008

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We went to a lot of Kagura performances last fall and Jolon, especially, really enjoyed them.  Here we tried to reenact a performance in our living room.  Jan is the snake and Jolon is the samurai figure who defeats him.

Making things

Jolon is really interested in making things from paper. One rainy day we decided to make the sun, moon and stars which he mainly cut out. Last night he saw a rocket in a book we were reading, and he and Jan decided to make one. Jan did the bottom part and Jolon created the beautiful spire. Also, for Boy's Day, Jan helped the boys make some paper carp flags.

ice cream

Park with friends

Great weather this past weekend. We went to a park with friends from hoikuen and instead of playing on the playground equipment we found the kids had wandered over to the bushes in one corner of the park and were playing pirates. They got filthy playing in the dirt but had a lot of fun. It was such a nice day that we came home and decided to take our little Japanese tabletop bbq to our local park for dinner. Chicken, hot dogs, vegetables, and even leftover pizza. yummmmmm