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Noa close-ups #6

Since we are in Osaka visiting some friends and Kiko’s family, I have had to resort to another round of Noa close-up pictures taken by yours truly. (or possibly kiko…) (or possibly someone with more skill than both of us.)

… we know you love it.

See how super he is?

Now for some more unsettling news…

has it happened? has noa caught the ghey? Decide for yourselves…

That’s a pretty queer looking picture if you ask me.

and finally some more exciting news…. despite some of you not giving Noa full credit for his amazing crawling skills, this picture should proof without a doubt that he is a “holding something and standing wizard”… be prepared to be amazed.

booya.

Live from the field

Goodnight everyone! From Noa

On our way to Osaka!

We are on our way to Osaka! Here is a picture of Kiko anD Noa in front of a famous bridge connecting Shikoku to the rest of Japan.

davidandkiko.com Challenge #1

The World’s Longest Monkeybars

Watch as we tackle the World’s Largest Monkey Bars (110m, located in Kochi.) (never mind the fact that it looked like no one had been there in many years and that the “park” it was located in consisted of a strip of green surrounded by nothing and an ocean.)

The Contenders:

David

Kiko

Adam & Lee

The Results

In the end Adam managed to make it to the halfway point, and managed to wreck his hands doing it. Lee made it just past the 10m mark. I made it to the 5m mark. and Kiko made it about as far as she did in the picture. 😉

ps. It’s waaay harder than it looks!

No Updates?

Where are the updates? You were on such a role, davidandkiko.com

That’s right… we were. Our nieces (Hina and Kana) and Kiko’s mom are currently visiting us from Tanegashima so we haven’t had much of a chance to update the site. I will be going to Tokyo tomorrow for an important interview, and I promise a big update with info on what we have been doing when I get back.

In the meantime, here is a picture of Noa wondering where the updates are.

Good news and bad news…

First the bad news…

Remember the excitement of all of our vegetables last year? Even though Kiko has had some pretty exciting mini-tomato results, it looks like our watermelons are in trouble. 🙁

We planted 2 watermelon plants last year and got 20~30 watermelons. This year we planted 4 watermelon plants and have got…. 1 watermelon.

I was doing my best to make sure that it stayed healthy so we could at least eat one watermelon this year (currently selling for 400yen for 1/4 a watermelon at the grocery store) when I came upon this:

looks good right? wrong.

… and no one believed me that dogs destroyed the last of our watermelons last year!!! Look at that split… a claw I tell you. 😐

And now the good news…

Noa can use his walker to walk around!!! … sort of. He can only use one foot… and can only go backward… in an arc… but it’s a start!)

DOWNLOAD NOA’S WALKER VIDEO HERE
希空くんのビデオ (歩行器！)

2006 Sunflower Festival

It took a long time, but we have finally put up a new photo-album! We hope to have more to come.

Today we took Noa (and our good friend Lee!) out to take some pictures with the sunflowers on display for our town’s annual sunflower festival. The town chooses a few plots of land (always near our house!) to grow a ton of sunflowers and people from all around the prefecture, and Japan, come to take a look.

Take a look at the new gallery here.

Here is a sneak peak:

Below are some pictures of Noa, us, and our good friend Lee enjoying the view. (Despite the popular view that Lee is a photoraph-taking genius and is currently trying to raise my photo-knowledge from 0 to some, I see him as my protegee whom I hope to impart some of my fantastical camera skills.) 8)

Noa kicks ass!

Not like you didn’t already know that… 😮

Anyways, Kiko recently took Noa to Ikuji Circle (育児サークル), a playgroup run by my town for children aged 2 years and up. Despite the age restriction, some of the children there are a bit younger, Noa being one of the youngest. Although I didn’t get to see Noa hanging out with other children for the first time, Kiko brought back some pictures. See how happy he is?

Look how cute he looks?

… and then Noa decides to kick ass. He takes no prisoners as he destroys the bossy girl beside him.

He then trounces a smaller baby with a fan for crawling too close.

and finally he rams her head in the ground to reclaim his empty milk cartons!

(note how he uses his halfness and his Japanese jersey to mount a surprise attack on the enemy.)

a cute picture

I found this cute picture in my phone! Did I already post this?

Our trip to Naruto

We took a trip to Naruto in Tokushima (our neighbour to the south/east/west) with Ayano-san last weekend. Naruto is famous for “uzumaki” which is like a whirlpool in the ocean. It is supposed to be quite exciting, but unfortunately the two times I have been there have been no whirlpools. The excitement was compounded by 0% visibility due to fog. 8)

(note the nice new jeans.)

Note Kiko’s hotness.

Because we don’t have any pretty pictures of whirlpools to show you, we will compensate by showing you pictures of a pretty little baby.

followed by pictures of the behemoth Japanese baby who is younger than Noa but looks like he is about to eat Noa (with his 3 teeth. Noa has no teeth yet.)

(Noa’s expression signals that he is distressed by the presence of fat baby-san beside him.)

And finally… here is a picture of me putting Noa to good use.