A nice saturday spent at home

I made cream stew today. Hokkaido corn cream stew with boneless skinless chicken breasts, onions, potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, and I was going to add the broccoli as well, but at the last second I changed my mind about the broccoli lol, so I left that out. I also made a small very basic Italian salad with just lettuce, bell pepper, small cherry tomatoes sliced in half. Grated mozzarella cheese on top of the salad, pepper and black olives (simple but a very typical type of Italian salad, that I grew up with that reminds me of what my mom and family has made since as long as I can remember) . We had Italian dressing with the salad..and yes I could have done it up even better, but what the heck, it was just a lazy Saturday dinner yk? No big deal and besides we weren't trying to impress anyone lol! . And of course we had white rice to go along the stew.I popped in a DVD rental and just stayed warm and cozy in the house and enjoyed stew! We rented Batman Returns It was okay. After that, we watched the new DVD Herbie Fully Loaded movie again for the millionth time lol! But I don't really mind because my munchkins just love that movie!

Then it was a hair cut for Branden (after dinner) which I gave him in the bathroom right before bath time. I like my sons to have clean cut boy hair. Just the typical American little boy hair cut, if you know what I mean....and no I don't mean GI Joe (yuck that's too overly short). But in Japan, so many little boys have such long hair and so many little girls, have such short hair that often many times, I often wonder quietly to myself when I'm out and about. If it is a little boy or a little girl ykwim? Where in American little girls look like little girls with pony tails and barrettes and wear pink or red or purple lol. And little boys with their cute little clean cut hair do's and baseball caps or floppy gilligan hats. Cargo pants and sweatshirts ykwim? Where in Japan many kids look and dress so damn androgynous! Sorry to say it, but it's truly how I feel sometimes. So.....Branden got himself a trim last night. And then I threw both boys into the shower washed both their hair and bodies and brushed both their teeth. Well Noah just got a gum brushing ha ha ha, with the Gerber infant toothbrush and non fluoride toothpaste.

Branden didn't want to soak in the hot bath tonight, so Noboru dried him off, got him into his jammies and then Noboru and Branden played Playstation 2, Grand Tourismo (it's a race car game) Meanwhile Noah and I soaked together in the hot bath for a good 10 minutes!

Then I got out of the bath got Noah into his PJ's. And he fell asleep in my bed upstairs. And I got on my PJ's and went downstairs. Got a cup of hot cocoa with 2 marshmallows and made a cup for Branden and Noboru as well. Then I played the race car game with Branden! Mommy vs. Branden!!! Ha ha ha! It was a close match! I beat Branden once and he beat me twice! Darn, he is so good at that game! Ha ha ha! I can't believe, he just turned 4 years old and he is so totally good at that game!