Literacy with Japanese 8

 

                This time I read ははのひ。In the beginning it shows two little girls looking up at a calendar, and they have a thought bubble with a woman in it. Knowing from the cover I assume that woman is their mother. I think it's their mother because the title has はは。Though I'm not sure what event it could be that is dated on the calendar. I think maybe her birthday. The girls then talk to their father about buying something and he gives them money. In the next page it shows him hiding behind an electric pole while the girls are walking to the flower store. With the father hiding behind an electric pole, I think the girls wanted to go without him or they asked him to let them go alone. Which I can't comprehend doing that in America, but Japan I wonder if that's common for kids to go alone especially with a sibling.  They go to the flower store and point out red and pink flowers, I assume the speech is possibly what the girls each think their mother would like. The father shows back up behind the pole as the girls end up going to the cake store and get a cake. They then go back home where the dad gives a sigh of relief (possibly them making it home safe.) They then are sitting at a table with paper on it, which makes me think they're making a card. The cards I wasn't expecting to have been then made into Origami. The next page is them shouting something at their mother, which one of the words is Thank you which makes me think this is Mother's Day than her birthday. I didn't know that Mother's Day was celebrated in Japan. I found it funny at the end the father is looking at the calendar which I assume is him counting out when Father's Day is coming.