Author: david

Noa: An April Update

People have been complaining for more pictures. Kiko has been harassing me to put her pictures up. People think that we only put up the best looking pictures of Noa (and that he is not as 100% adorable as we make him out to be.) Someone… SOMEONE (i will name no names) accused Noa of having a unibrow…

so without any further delay… here are some pictures of Noa from the month of April! enjoy. emoticon

 

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Noa is Canadian!

We just heard some great news from Tracy! (Thanks Tracy!emoticon)

Noa is now officially Canadian.  Yeah! The same day we found this out, a very surprising package arrived in the mail from China. Thank you Elizabeth!! As you can see, it fit well with the good citizenship news!

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Seriously, Liz, everyone, thank you so much for all of your gifts. They mean so much to both of us (and possibly Noa) emoticon 

and finally… since you all want to marvel at how good looking Noa is… 

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Just so we’re clear…

…I am a photographic genius. 

It’s that time of year again in Japan… Cherry Blossom (sakura) time… Yeah!!! emoticon

In the coming days expect a whole bunch of new photo albums with lots of pictures of David, Kiko, and Noa (.com). (and some cherry blossoms as well)

Also expect some interesting stories like the time Noa was kidnapped by a waitress at a Tonkatsu restaurant!!!

Here are some samples to re-assert just how brilliant of a photographer I am. (thanks matt, greg, and lee!)

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Vaccinations in Japan

Well, it’s a little late, but this is a pretty important post.

Noa had his first in a series of shots to vaccinate him from the various diseases. I wish I could be a little more specific, but since everything is written in Kanji I can only make a guess at the BCG and Japanese influenza shots.

Now, i don’t know if you have ever met any real live Japanese people, but if you have you may have seen some funny little bumps on their arms. Two square boxes on their shoulder with a series of 10 circles in each box. When I was a high school student on exchange here in Japan I thought it was weird that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY FRIENDS has markings from those shots still visible on their arms.

As of today Noa has officially joined their ranks. Although he showed a little bit of discomfort, he was quite strong and didn’t freak out. The doctor warned us that most babies spazz out but Noa gave the doctor a big smile and only cried a little after receiving the vaccination. Everyone thought it was weird when I took pictures, but here goes:

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We also had another very interesting develoment today. Noa decide that he enjoys sneezing. Yeah… what’s up with that? No idea. But Noa absolutely spazzes if you pretend to sneeze at him. He thinks its great and gives a full-out laugh. It is actually pretty cute so I caught it on video. Have a look!

NOA’S LAUGHING VIDEO

That is all. emoticon

2006 Coming of Age Ceremony

One of my biggest posts from last year (by biggest post I mean the one that drew the most traffic to davidandkiko.com as determined by Google) was my January post on Japan’s Coming of Age Ceremony. It was very strange, but I found the picture I had posted their linked to many many websites.

In January (while I was in Canada), my town, Chunan-cho (now merged to become Mannou-Cho) held it’s last Coming of Age Ceremony.

The second Monday in January is Coming of Age Day where all 20 year olds gather together in a ceremony held by the local governments around Japan to mark their passage into adult hood. 

What makes this ceremony faily exciting is the huge number of young people you see wearing very elaborate kimonos wandering around the streets of Japan (young people wearing kimonos is not a common sight!) during the first half of January.

Here is the photo from Chunan-cho, 2006. 

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