34 months old - Lift Me Up!

Thanksgiving Day

On the way to Powell Butte park with Aki's friend Chico and popcorn Papa made.

 

It was freezing but very sunny. Aki found a village of huge rocks to play.

He was climbing up and down and through and under all the rocks.

He made it to the top!

Papa and Ocho and Pnut found a hidden fort.

Even though we didn't make any further on the trail, we had a good time on the rocks. Time to go home!

Our Thanksgiving dinner was HotPot Japanese Nabe. We had many different kinds of ingredients to give thanks to.

Thank you Earth and all living and nonliving things.

After the warm yummy dinner, mama took care of Aki's nap by taking him on a stroller walk. He was fast asleep.

33 months old - Music & Light

A little moment of Aki's alone play while parents are working in their studio. He loves sounds and light!

33 months old - Jumping into the oak leaves

33 months old - Boys on Balance Bikes

Samurai Exhibit at Portland Art Museum

Our artist friend Jason designed the cat samurai image and demonstrated woodcut printing.

Thanks Jason!

We got to see Kendo demonstration. Aki loved it!

OMSI visit

Aki loves OMSI. Here he is playing with nano particle machine.

Thermography

I remember he couldn't quit reach to put those balls in the water last year, but now he looks like the biggest kid there!

APAK 's art class at New Day School

APAK lead an art class and introduced "collaboration" in Aki's class today. We showed our paintings at the beggining of the class and everyone was so interested. Aki had a hard time focusing on the project because his parents were there. He was distracting the class for sure for the understandable reason.

We let them choose one colored pencil for each child and gave a piece of paper with the child's name on it.

After drawing on own paper, we traded with friends and drew more!

We traded with everyone in the class.

At the end each child got his or her paper back with all the classmates drawing on it.

This is Aki and his classmates' collaboration!

 

At the end of the class we all drew on a large paper on the floor!

Some children had more passion in drawing. Some were ready to go outside and play.

This is the beautiful result from our art class. It went pretty well and we had so much fun!

Reed Collage Walk

Silas' Skate Park

33 months old - Dancing Non Stop

33 months old - Spin Practice

33 months old - I love Mama

Apple Season