Happy New Year- Traditional Japanese & Mochitsuki

Today we woke up and had our traditional New Years breakfast. We had ozoni with all the trimmings. Saya loved the ozoni along with all the little side dishes. She ate all the fishes and her black beans so we're hoping she will have a long and happy life. While mommy cooked some more dishes Saya and daddy played and we started to put away the Christmas tree.

There was mochi tsuki  in Boulder so we decided to head out before Saya's nap. She had a blast and wanted to watch forever. We ran into a bunch of Japanese moms and others from J school- so much fun. Saya had a ton of mochi with different toppings and some hot Japanese soup. Definitely will make it a tradition and perhaps we will go again next year.

Saya went down for a nap without complaint and mommy and daddy had some lunch and cleaned up.

Now for some football games and lots of food tonight. A wonderful New Years and can't ask for anything more.

Happy New Year from the Neimas! Please take good care of us in 2012 too.