McKanani Version 2!: Warm-up Outfit Review

So Kanani is back in town and what is she wearing? The exclusive McKenna Warm-Up outfit that everyone wants but you can only get it if you spend like $200 (including taxes and all that) on her starter collection because they won't sell it as a single item as a clever marketing scheme. Well luckily we snatched this up on eBay for around $40 and we HAD to get it! Now I am seeing other warm-up outfits go for much higher than that.  I mean we do sorta want to add McKenna to the family but right now we're enjoying Kanani and friends. The outfit is cute. The top is more pink (I thought it was purple for some reason) and the bottom is orange. It has a tie-dye dipped effect but it's actually what do you call it- printed? on and the color is only on one side. Kanani's kukunut lei goes great with the jacket though it would not be at all practical for warm-up practice. The pants are a bit snug as AG seems to like to use the least amount of material possible and charge more lately. I do like the little trendy scrunch up sides (whatever they're called)- they remind me of a few pants I have had in the past. The shoes are pink and accented by a super bright greenish-yellow. I don't know why they chose this color. Maybe it's suppose to be a copy of a reflective strap on a shoe? Or maybe they didn't want it too matchy-matchy? I could only get the shoes on without socks. Of course you can use the excuse that McKenna doesn't need socks since she's going to gymnastics but super tight shoes go along with the super-tight pants and super-tight shirt theory. However I was able to get the Pretty and Plaid shirt under the sweatshirt. I love that blue shirt. I always seem to have a doll wearing it one way or another.
However all in all I recommend this outfit

Learning about Mochi!

The mochi Kanani sent us.

Today Kanani gave us some cupcakes. Well we first thought they were cupcakes, tell we noticed it said Mochi on it. We thought it was just some brand or something but later found out it's a type of sweet treat made especially in Japan and Hawaii!

I  (Morgan in my Saami outfit.. that is for another post..) decided to look it up on the web what these non-cupcake mochi things were about before we tried them.

Looking for Mochi

In Wikipedia it says Mochi is "Mochi (Japanese: 餅) is a Japanese rice cake made of glutinous rice (not to be confused with gluten) pounded into paste and molded into shape..... While also eaten year-round, mochi is a traditional food for the Japanese New Year and is commonly sold and eaten during that time. Similar snacks are prominent in Hawaii..." and other countries.  Here's a Link.

Ahh! I see now.  It's a sweet rice. I tried to find some pictures that looked like the mochi Kanani sent us. We must have some particularly fancy mochi by the look of it. The mochi does look a bit like sushi in some pictures. They even have cookbooks on how to make Hawaiian mochi, such as this one by Jean Watanabe Hee. Looking at Mochi recipes on the web I notice some have a lot of butter, and some are even non-desserts like mochi with fried chicken. We don't eat chicken but if we did I bet it would probably taste pretty good. They even have mochi in caramel corn. Yum! The original mochi from Japan has an azuki bean paste but it comes in many different flavors including chocolate peanut butter, mango, strawberry and hazelnut. It all sounds so good. Wonder what flavors Kanani gave us?
Have you ever tried mochi?

We were finally able to get Kanani's Ukelele set. It comes with a place to put batteries and it plays a wonderful song. We absolutely love it! We even found a Ukelele station on Pandora and enjoyed a few songs.