Hubby's Birthday

In January we get to celebrate daddy's birthday (on the 19th). This year it fell on a Saturday. The Friday before the kids and I went to Ginza and did some birthday shopping for daddy. We bought him some cuff links along with a nice pen for work. Then we made him a Mickey Mouse shaped cake because you know that is what he asked for and decorated it with all of our favorite colors for icing - orange for daddy, blue for mama, pink and purple for Miss M, and yellow for the K Man, or K Buddy Man as his sister likes to call him. The kids ensured that daddy did not get to sleep in too much on his birthday. Miss M was ready to play Hide and Go Daddy by 8AM for his birthday party games. I seriously think we played that for about a hour. She LOVES it. We ate birthday cake and then mama took the kids to the park so daddy could get a little nap in before dinner out. We enjoyed dinner out with our friends from Australia. I have talked at random about these two families, but not really at length. They have become some of our dearest friends here in Tokyo. We are so blessed to have met them. It is so nice when the mamas like each other, the papas like each other and the kids enjoy each other. We have traveled with them and spent many evenings in their company both with and without children. So, for the hubby's birthday we met them for dinner at a fabulous tsukiyaki/shabu-shabu restaurant in the Maranouchi Buildings. We paid a pretty penny for the meal, but it was one of the best meals I have had in Tokyo, and that is saying a lot because the food here in general is pretty fabulous. The restaurant is originally from Kyoto and has one branch in Tokyo, so hubby chose it to get back to his "roots." In Kentucky, we always went to a Japanese restaurant with friends to celebrate his birthday. He figured since we were already in Japan, we would try a Kyoto based restaurant. I wish I had taken my camera and gotten pictures of the food. The presentation was beautiful and the waitresses dressed in traditional kimonos as they prepared our food at the table. It was so nice to catch up with our friends from Australia and enjoy a fine meal together. I am already looking forward to our next date night out in March with them and the several fun family activities we have planned for February. Y'all are the best! The pictures are of Miss M and hubby being silly together with the camera.