Saya turned six on our trip to Colorado and Oregon. This was a few weeks ago, but I am just now going through the photos… I will have more posts soon. These were taken on her birthday on the Oregon coast. I have so few photos of us together– I usually don’t get in front of the camera–so these are precious to me.

(For the last picture Saya wanted to do a “Japanese pose”)

I am so proud of my six year old. She is just amazing!

Today is Saya’s 100th day of kindergarten, so she had to bring 100 of something to school. We chose origami penguins, which was a bit of work, but turned out to be the perfect way to channel her excited energy.  I’m not exactly sure why, but she was very excited about today. I took a few pictures at school too…

This is our version of a project from the kid made modern blog (found via pinterest). It is my favorite kind of craft to do with Saya–easy, cute results, and not really any way to go wrong. we used gold duct tape and kid made modern printed tape from target. (Which we happened to have in the house. Saya got it in her Christmas stocking.) Although the duct tape is holding up, the other tape started to come apart after a day or so, but that’s ok.

Saya and I painted for a while yesterday.  She likes it when we paint together on the same paper.

Junji didn’t have to work today because of snow. We kept Saya home because she is recovering from a sore throat. I haven’t left the house at all today which has been so nice after a busy weekend. Poor Hannah had to stay in to recover from an unfortunate injury to her paw that happened last night requiring an emergency trip to the vet. She is fine, but we all needed a day to rest and recover (and fold a mountain of laundry and wash a mountain of dishes). It’s been nice.