Family Tanjoubi

Which means, "birthday" in Japanese. (pronounced: TAHN-JOE-BEE)

Anyway...

On the 12th of February we had a small family celebration for Miki's 4th birthday. I can't believe 4 years have passed already. However, like my mom noted during one recent Skype call, 4 sounds incredibly young for a little girl who has enriched our families' lives so much already.

Ericka found princess-shaped pasta for the special dinner that night and the girls loved it; especially the "glass" slipper. Miki even claimed she could tell which ones were Belle and which ones were Jasmine!

And then of course we had a small, but delicious cake (thank you, Kumika!), complete with 4 candles.

After dinner Miki opened her 2 packages from the Grandparents. The princess book was extremely well-received (big surprise) and Sam loves her little princess shirt, because, I'm assuming, her big sister has one just like it and now they can be twins.

Thank you Nana, Pop, Grammy & Gramps for the generous gifts.