Category: Family

Tomorrow: The Greatest Day in Noa’s Life… ever. Seriously.

I’m actually not joking.

Tomorrow Kiko and Noa will be attending “Okasan to issho” (Together with Mom), the live concert version. For those of you not up to date with Japanese children’s tv, this program is like Sesame Street in Japan. It has Noa’s favourite music, favourite people (other than me), favourite crazy animals.

Okasan to Issho
Occasionaly they have national concert tours which also appear on TV. Maybe Noa will be on Japanese TV?? (selling whisky or something.) All I know is that Noa (actually mostly Kiko) is REALLY excited about going and is going to have a great time. How much does he love that show?

Now look a picture of how intently Noa watches the program.

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He’s so cool.

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Like my dashes? Things here are pretty good! Work is going great. School is rewarding. Noa is cool. Kiko is going to a concert. Excitement.

It seems that while we have less comments, we are still getting a good amount of visitors… so thank you! This is our way of letting you know what we are up to, and it is always nice to hear from everyone. We will get more pictures of Kiko and I up soon, and we will have pictures from Noa’s concert tomorrow.

Great mood!

I’m in a great mood.

  1. My computer died
  2. The website photo albums are not working
  3. Can’t get photos off of my camera for the same reason

So why am I in such a great mood??

  • Great news from a very good friend (no kiko is not pregnant)
  • New computer! (Runs OSX and Vista … at the same time!!! … on 2 monitors!!)
  • Kiko and Noa are cool
  • Skype is back up! Call me!

Once I get the website back up to 100% (and once all our pictures are back on the new computer… expect more updates!!)

Look at the goodness!
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Happy Valentines Day from Noa … in the form of video excitement

Happy Valentines Day from david and kiko and Noa.

Did you know that in Japan, women have to give chocolate to the male members in their family, male friends, boyfriends, co-workers and colleagues. Men don’t have to give anything… until White Day (March 14th of course) when these gifts of chocolate are returned in the form of candy or sweets.

Weird. Did you know that? Now you do.

For Valentine’s Day, Noa has asked us to upload some new videos. Apparently he is upset by some of the things he reads here where people accuse him of not being able to dance or play the piano. He is very sensitive. (I told him the other day that his jumping wasn’t very good and he started to cry. true story.)

So, direct from Noa, here is some video excitement.

Noa Plays the Piano

For those of you who don’t believe that Noa can play the Piano… in a cafe.

DOWNLOAD NOA PLAYS THE PIANO #1!
希空くんのビデオ (ピアノ　＃１)

DOWNLOAD NOA PLAYS THE PIANO #2!
希空くんのビデオ (ピアノ　＃２)

Watch as Noa creates a new dance especially for Jim’s band lame…

DOWNLOAD NOA’S NEW DANCE!
希空くんのビデオ (ダンス)

希空くんのビデオ (クリスマス #4)Pictures tomorrow!

Lindsay and Takeshi’s Wedding… in Kagawa!

We are back from an exhausting (but fun!) trip to Kagawa where we got to see a number of good friends and colleagues. We miss Kagawa and everyone there very much! Thank you so much for making the time to hang out with us everyone!! (except those of you who dragged me into the freezing cold ocean in the middle of winter. you know who you are. actually… that was a lot of fun but sucky in the I thought I was going to die kind of way.)

A big part of our trip to Kagawa was to go see our friends Lindsay and Takeshi get married! Congratulations!!!

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It was there that Noa was reunited with Jim, and performed live on stage with Jim’s band LAME (which despite all that I was expecting… which was nothing… turned out to be pretty good!) [I will get a hair cut, calm down.]

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and here’s something to think about…
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