Summer Holidays

Today started the kids Summer Holidays from school! (aka: Mom gets to sleep in.)
Carole got her first report card yesterday & got only good grades. Woopie doo! Here in Japan school starts in April so she just finished the first marking period. Last night Daddy took Carole & Kiki to the movie theater to watch CARS (PIXAR). Leila & I stayed home to clean the house & eat ice cream.
Daddy left this morning for another 5 day job so we are home alone again except that Yumi (Mac's sister) is coming tomorrow to visit for a while. Yay! We like Yumi.
Other highlights of the week include Daddy finding a female kabutomushi (rhinoceros Beetle). Carole bought a male kabutomushi at the pet shop & a nice little bug case with dirt & food for the beetles with her allowance. Now our living room shelf is a regular zoo with the birds & the bugs & too bad the birds can't get to the bugs for a nice meal. ;)
Mike & Aich & kids came over a few days ago & we were going to go out to a restaurant but all the sudden Leila started coughing & wheezing & fell asleep & Aich said she wonders if Leila has a mild case of asthma. Anyway, we decided to send the daddies out to pick up sushi & pizza & chicken & stuff so we could have an indoor picnic. (Actually, we sent them out so we could have a gossip. hehe.)
Today it was still raining (4th consecutive day) so we couldn't go out on our first day off so I slept a lot & the kids played & fought & we ate banana splits for dinner. (Don't tell Daddy. --Actually we had a huge late lunch with lots of protien & fruits & good stuff, ok?)

The photos are of the kids & I at a friends house eating all their fruit & chocolate (like every guest should), & of Carole's pet beetles. The last pic is of the kids at a train station mall.