Mother's Day/母の日

Today was technically Anna's 3rd Mother's Day, but the fact that it was the first one Madison could actually participate in made it a lot more fun...
今日は何と杏奈の３回目の母の日だったんだけど、マディソンが初めてちゃんと参加出来る事が出来て余計に良い母の日になりました...

This morning Madison and I made Mommy a nice hot bath to create a diversion for our sneaky plans. While Mommy was enjoying her bath, Madison and I snuck down to the garage and retrieved the flowers, balloon, card and gifts that I had purchased to and from my working at the thrilling L.A. Galaxy vs NY Red Bulls Major League Soccer Match last night...since we don't do many things without each other, this was my one chance to escape...
今朝マディソンと一緒にママにお風呂を用意してアパートから抜け出し母の日のお祝いの準備をする事が出来ました...まず昨日買っておいたお花とカードと風船を車まで持ちに行って準備オッケー...

After gathering the goods we went to the storage closet to wrap the gifts (another hazard of having a studio...no place to hide)...there we made sure we were ready to go...
荷物を車から取り出した後、倉庫に行ってプレゼントを包みリハーサル...

Just as planned, Mommy was out of her bath upon return and Madison marched the balloon and a flower to Mommy and told her Happy Mother's Day...in single coached words of course...but very clear and cute!!
計画した通りアパートに戻るとママはお風呂から出ていたのでマディソンが風船とお花を渡しながら“ハッピーマザーズデイ!!”って言う事なんとか成功!!　

Mommy's card gave her a menu of choices for the afternoon and she chose lunch at Downtown Disney and a stroll through Disneyland of course!! So after worship we took the short twenty minute drive to "The Happiest Place on Earth."
ママへのカードに今日したい事ブッフェを書いておいたんだけど、その中でママはもちろんディズニーランドを選択。教会の後２０分後には世界一幸せな場所へ到着...

Lunch in Downtown Disney was great. We tried out a pizza place called Naples and it was delicious...but nobody enjoyed it more than Madison...her big thing right now is to chomp on ice and chomp she did, but she also had a strawberry smoothie and many bites of funghi pizza. She sat in her seat the entire meal which is quite a feat for our little two year old bundle of energy!
お昼はいつも行きたいと思っていたネープルズって言う炭火焼ピザのレストラン...マディソンが最近ハマっている事は氷をカリカリ食べる事、だからストロベリースムージーを頼んでママと木の子のピザを分けてと、今日初めて最初から最後まで良い子の子供用の椅子に座ると言う事を達成した！バンザーイ！

After lunch we strolled into the park and picked up Mommy's complimentary carnation which Madison enjoyed.
お昼の後、ディズニーランドに入って母の日のカーネーションを貰ってご機嫌のマディソン。

Then we strolled down Main Street and quickly realized that this was a packed day. We paused long enough for a quick Mommy/Daughter picture
そして、メインストリートを歩いている途中で、母の日の母と子の写真を撮りました。そしてこの時とても混んでいる事にも気づいていた...

and then checked out the line for Pirates of the Caribbean and knowing we could walk on at other times, we turned around and headed out.
そして、金曜日に乗れなかったカリブの海賊に乗ろうとしたんだけど、とてもじゃないけど近づけないくらいの混雑を見てまた来る様にと来た道を戻る事に...

By now it was way past Madison's nap time, so we knew as soon as we got her in the car she would be out...we were right...she ended up sleeping from 4pm to 6pm so we didn't make it to evening worship and are bracing ourselves for a late night tonight with our beloved girl, but the longer the Mother's Day the better...I guess.
もうその時はマディソンのお昼寝の時間でもあったから、車に戻って直ぐ寝てしまった時間を利用してママはゆっくり買い物を楽しむ事が出来ました。結果として４時から６時までお昼寝をしたマディソン、これじゃあ今夜遅くなりそうだ...でも母の日が長く楽しめるんだからいっか：）

I would be remiss if I didn't pause here and utter a word about the usual author of this blog...the mother of the star of this blog...the lady who has selflessly taken time out of her career to raise our beloved daughter. When you think about the work of a mother, it is true what they say...it never ends. It makes us appreciate our own mother's all the more as well. I feel so blessed to have married a woman that can instill the values of a Christian woman in our daughter and also share her immense talents with her (ie: puzzle putting together and exceptional memory :-) Not only does Anna work all day with Madison, whose battery never stops (except for an afternoon nap), but she then goes right to work making incredible dinner after incredible dinner for her thankful family...what a woman!! Her thoughtful spirit is always thinking about inviting others over on the one night of the week we have free and I can think of no better role-model on this earth for my daughter to have then her mother...thank you baby!!
そして、せっかくの今日はいつもこのブログを書く人の事を話しておかないと...このブログの一番星、キャリアを一端中止して僕達の子供の面倒を見てくれているママ...母の仕事を良く考えると人が言うのは本当の事...母の仕事は終わらない。だから余計に僕達の母親に本当に感謝したい気持ちでいっぱいになる。僕は杏奈のような人と結婚する事が出来て本当に嬉しいです。もちろんパズルを簡単に出来たり記憶力が凄いのは杏奈のお陰...：）杏奈は一日中元気満々のマディソンの面倒を見ている(午後のお昼寝以外)けど毎日毎日とってもおいしい夕ご飯の仕度をしてくれて僕とマディソンは本当に感謝しています...すごい！僕はとても思いやりのある人が僕の娘のロールモデルになる母親で本当に嬉しいです...本当にありがとうベイビー!!