Carina’s Birthday is August 27th. For her 2nd Birthday, she received a piggy bank from her Ba-chan (Japanese for Grandmother). For her 3rd Birthday, Ba-chan sent another! The day after her third birthday, Carina proclaimed that her next birthday would be “a piggy bank birthday”  I thought she would forget, but she did not.  By the time July 2010 rolled around, she was still telling everyone that they were invited to her piggy bank birthday party.  Planning … Read entire article »