Scrapbook Day November 14, 2014 - a Friday

This year the November scrapbook day fell on a Friday. If we have music class in the mornings then Fridays are fairly busy. This one proved to be just that. In the morning, Miss M and I did three subjects of school before heading out to music class. While the K Man and I attend his music class, Miss M attends her Japanese lesson at the local library with her teacher. Her Japanese continues to improve and during class today she wrote thank you notes in Japanese to her Japanese friends for their birthday gifts they gave to her. She even signed her name with her kanji. Her Japanese writing is better than her English writing as her teacher has been helping her for quite some time now with writing. After her lesson, we switch and the K Man takes Japanese and Miss M and I spend time together reading books at the library. The K Man is following in Big Sister's footsteps as he LOVES his Japanese teacher and classes. It is so cute to watch him speak it with her. We enjoyed lunch at the local bakery, came home briefly to finish math for Miss M, and headed back out to soccer for Miss M. We used to do swimming on Fridays but we switched recently to soccer. One reason I wanted to switch is because the swim class for Miss M was a lot of younger kids. I wanted her to be with kids more her age. Plus, the soccer has a class for the K Man at the same time. Right now there is no availability for him, but I am hoping come spring when the new academic year starts in Japan, then he can get in a class also and I can combine activities. I think it will help having as many combined activities as possible once the third child comes along. Miss M is still a bit shy at soccer because it is new. It takes her a really long time to warm up to new environments and people. But I also love with the soccer that she is outside and running (at swimming there was lots of waiting in the pool as people took their turns with the teacher). Daddy and her are going to start swimming at indoor pools nearby on the weekends to keep up her swimming and make sure she stays comfortable in the water. Later in time I may try to get her in a different swim class but for now we will do sports class and soccer. We came home from soccer and enjoyed some dinner and relaxed after a full day. Here are some recent pics of the kids from the past few weeks. Love these sweet gifts from The Lord.