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Happy Anniversary to Kiko and I!
Don’t get too excited, but today marks our 2nd year anniversary. Thanks to all of our friends and family for your support. Please keep visiting to see how we are doing and what we are up to.
There might be a few pictures as well… maybe… if you’re lucky.
Love, David & Kiko.
Look – it’s Tanegashiman!
You know the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, right!? They are based on a reoccurring series of 5-person -colour coded-group-fighting-team-show (sentai) that has been airing in Japan for the past 30 years. Every year or so the group, the group’s name and abilities change (which Mighty Morphin Power Rangers did by keeping the same group but adding “new vehicles and costumes” etc.) and get’s a new name. It is usually something “-man” or “-ranger.”
Someone thought it was a good idea to promote Tanegashima (Kiko’s island, remember?) and have “Tanegashi-man” a group of super heroes that run around the island. neat.
Speaking of neat…
So welcome to the test style post for the Sawchuk Scheme, for K2. I think its great as its designed to emphasize the content over the style of the site. Anyway, there is a lot of dummy text here, where possible I have indicated the style used. Feel free to look at the HTML source if confused. Anyway, so then after I earned my first million, I learned how to speak latin! Ulla hendrerit massa sit amet nunc. Donec pede. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Nunc dolor. Duis dui. Aliquam erat volutpat. Suspendisse nulla. Aenean vehicula lacinia lacus. Nulla facilisi. Fusce tincidunt nibh ut libero.
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As you can see, we are currently under construction. In the next few days the following should be online:
I made that last one up.
A few more pictures of Noa spending time with Kiko’s family in Tanegashima for Golden Week. They love him, he loves them, it was super.
yes… I am still working on the new version.
yes…. it will come out soon.
yes…. I miss my shoutbox just as much as you do.
and yes… oh yes… I am still a photographic genius (who sometimes takes credit for Kiko or Lee’s photos)
(Why more Noa pictures? because he is cute. and he is mine. besides, people really liked the original closeups so i thought you might enjoy these as well…)
(ps. that may or may not be me in the first picture. regardless, i took the picture.) 
We are now back in Kagawa after a trip to Kiko’s island (Tanegashima) for Golden Week. Noa is fatterer, I am tired, Kiko got a haircut, and we had a great time!
Noa got to spend time with his cousins (Hina, Kana, and Shu), his Aunt (Mie) and Uncle (Takao), and his grandparents.
I would have more for you, but (as my last post stated!) I am hard at work on the new website. Expect good things soon. In the meantime, perhaps you can get as excited about this as I am.
(Our shoutbox is currently offline because I can’t seem to stop the spam. Give me a few days!)
I bet no one remembers that I am currently working on a new version of davidandkiko.com … been working on it for awhile. (more than a year!)
Dare I say that it is almost done? Spam has been destroying our shoutbox above, so I have had to focus on that the last couple of days… but… (and this is a big but!) hopefuly I will have a new version out by the end of this week. Look out for it.
In the meantime, here is a picture of Noa. He has recently learned to roll over and fell asleep while stuck in his rollover position. 
May 5th is Children’s Day in Japan (kodomo no hi). Just to summarize, apparently it is a day to celebrate children’s personalities and their happiness… whatever that means. In a nutshell, families with little boys put up really large poles with carp “kites” (called koinobori) [on May 5th, traditionally known as boy’s day] to represent the boy’s strength and virility. Families with girls put up really nice dolls (hinamatsuri) [on May 3rd, tradtionally known as girl’s day] epresenting the Heian Court from aproximately 1000 years ago.
Now back in Kagawa we had some little tiny koinobori (carp flags… are you paying attention!?) (tiny because we have no where to put them!). After packing up and heading to Tanegashima (Kiko’s island) for the holiday, Kiko’s parents surprised us (noa) with some very big koinobori. And I mean very big… I spent an afternoon standing up a big huge pole right outside of Kiko’s parent’s house. It was definitely a nice way to celebrate. Noa seemed to really enjoy them too… (this coming from the baby who loves plastic shopping bags).
While on Tanegashima Noa gets to spend time with his cousions, Hina, Kana, and Shuichiro and gets to ride an airplane for like the 80th time in his life. Enjoy!
That is all. We are scheduled to be on the island from April 28th to May 7th. 
Noa also likes his (scruffy) Dad.
(ps. he is laughing… not crying. i think. … umm… I hope.)
