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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.
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!) 
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.)
These are a few of my favourite Noa pictures that haven’t made it in to our earlier posts.
The first is of my sister Tray, Noa and myself.
The other is of Noa in front of a nice looking (plum? cherry blossom?) tree. Kiko is convinced she took the picture, but I believe it might actually be me…
That is all.
…I am a photographic genius.
It’s that time of year again in Japan… Cherry Blossom (sakura) time… Yeah!!! 
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!)
These are some pictures of Noa and his friends. Some are from Canada, and some are with our good friend Marc who came to visit from canada. Enjoy!
(Good friends in Canada)
My good friend Marc has arrived and we will be touring Kyoto! Marc says koneecheewa!
Today Chunan-cho (仲南町) had their closing ceremonies. I had a wonderful time here and I am going to miss it terribly.
I thought this was a nice picture. (it’s his Kappa hat, from Tracy and Thomas, remember?)
We also decided to take some pictures of Noa’s first snowfall. Suffice it to say, he was not pleased with being made to sit through the second picture.
