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		<title>My Baby&#8217;s First Few days in Hoikuen</title>
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October 1-
Finally after preparing my daughter&#8217;s thing we went to hoikuen this day,  Erika belong to &#8220;Ringu Gumi&#8221; or Apple class which consists of 1 year old kids. The class has 20 children with four teachers in a room. A young lady Sabito san is Erika&#8217;s sensei.   My husband and I  took her to daycare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Erika&#8217;s General Check up</title>
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(My camera is broken and can only take blurry photos)
We had an appointment yesterday for Erika&#8217;s 1 year and half general check up at the health center. The place is near our house,  and I was glad to see many children at Erika&#8217;s age playing toys in the  small playground located at the hallway inside [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikaworld.com/2009/09/erikas-general-check-up-at-the-health-center/</link>
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		<title>Preparation for Erika to enter to Hoikuen</title>
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Last week we received a telephone call from the City Hall that starting next month Erika can  enter in a Hoikuen or a Daycare nursery . These Hoikuen or Day care nurseries looks after children               who cannot be cared for at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikaworld.com/2009/09/preparation-for-erika-to-enter-to-hoikuen/</link>
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		<title>Exploring Toba City</title>
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Last weekend we went to Toba city and stayed there for one night me, Erika, my husband together with my oldest step daughter who arranges the trip for us.  Before we went to hotel,  first we went to Nemu no Sato  a very wide park located in Ise Shima because its very spacious we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikaworld.com/2009/08/exploring-toba-city/</link>
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		<title>OBon and Hanabi Taikai &#8216;09</title>
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Her Grandfather teach her how to ring the bell of Butsudan.
Well last Friday in commemoration of Obon festival we went again to Anjo City  to visit the grave of my mother in law who passed away almost four years ago also  to offer a pray in the Butsudan.  The main reason going there is to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikaworld.com/2009/08/obon-and-hanabi-taikai-09/</link>
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		<title>Anjo City Tanabata Matsuri 2009</title>
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Last month we celebrate Tanabata Matsuri at home and this time Erika loves the colorful Tanabata festival held in Anjo City where her father&#8217;s relatives live. According to my husband The festival starts 50 years before wherein on that time huge streamers were only made of papers and was being prepared many weeks before the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikaworld.com/2009/08/anjo-city-tanabata-matsuri-2009/</link>
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		<title>Erika Playing on the River</title>
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So how was Erika this past few days?
During summer here in Japan its been a tradition to have a Hanabi taikai or firework festival held on big or even on small cities throughout Japan. And since it is hanabi season, we are having a small hanabi show in the yard wherein Erika enjoyed to watch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikaworld.com/2009/07/erika-playing-on-the-river/</link>
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		<title>The First Time Baby Plays in her mini pool</title>
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Yesterday it was a little cloudy but hot afternoon so I brought Erika to her pool in the yard to play with the water, but she was so excited to play inside so I put her inside it and since then you could hear her screaming because of too much happiness.



Related ReadingsErika Playing on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Tanabata Matsuri at Home</title>
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Last year Erika celebrated with us tanabata festival and tonight was her second. We made her again a small bamboo tree with different style of papercraft.  This time I made the papercraft decoration better than last year&#8217;s decoration. And since it is a star festival I hanged many stars on her tree. I also made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikaworld.com/2009/07/2009-tanabata-matsuri-at-home/</link>
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		<title>Some Milestones Erika can Do Now</title>
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Erika enjoyed playing on the Children playground last Wednesday when we went to the electric shop to buy a Computer Desk lamp inside the department store. You could hear her screaming of too much excitement playing inside the room full of  balloons.  I forgot to brought my digital camera so I took some shots of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erikaworld.com/2009/07/some-milestones-erika-can-do-now/</link>
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