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June Update

Kiko and Noa enjoy folding some paper animals…

Umm… our kids 🙂

Hana at the beach

And finally, Hana on her magic broom…

May Update

Switching to a once a month update while we acclimatize 🙂

This is what we do when our children are bad…. that and Hana is the most accident-prone Bennett on the planet.

Not exactly from Canada but I love this picture…

Noa practicing his Japanese…

Last Month in Japan

As many of you know by now, we are preparing to leave Japan.

Both our children were born here and it has been more than 5 years since we have lived anywhere else.

Lots of people to say goodbye to, and things to finish before we go!

WIll update more soon…

She looks like one of those North Korea karaoke singers…

The halfies…

And goodbye to some good friends…

And some ice cream for good measure…

Christmas 2009

Yes, I understand this is late. But better late then never, right? … RIGHT?

We have Kiko made Christmas dinner, Kiko made Gingerbread House (amazing!), Kiko made stockings, some girl-on-girl action, some creepy Santa’s (NOT creepy. That is Barry he is great!) and children with lots of presents. What more can you ask for!?!

.. Cute pictures of Hana? Done.

This may or may not be in response to those who said this blog was Noa-heavy…

Piano + Harmonica

On my way back to Toronto as I write this. I was hoping to do a large update before I left, alas it seems that I can only find the time to do short sporadic picture updates. That being said you can always take a look at my other home on the web. davidbbennett.com

While going through my pictures I realized that Kiko has become an awesome photographer. No post-processing at this time, but she has really got a talent for the frame and excellent timing.

I also bought my kids Pianicas. What are these things called in English? Piano + Harmonica = Pianica.

You are welcome.

Pianicas and Hana in a wig.

Updating … from China

So I am in Dalian, one of China’s “resort” cities and also one of it’s special economic zones.

No one told me that I wouldn’t be able to access Twitter or have of my favourite podcasts and websites.

Kiko has been able to get me through pictures of the kids which apparently weren’t censored.

So… here you go

That is Hana’s self proclaimed “cute” pose by the way.

And look Noa is smart too. He is playing Shogi/japanese chess. Better than Jim.

back from Singapore, off to Dalian!

Unfortunately I seem to have had a whole load of business trips piled into January. Noa is at the age where he gets really sad an in turn makes me sad. 🙁

Fortunately I have been able to keep them to weekdays only, but with some rather large changes heading my way at work, pretty sure we are in for some tough times ahead.

So until I have some more news, take a look at these in the meantime:

So we have some Hana looking cool. Noa making donuts, and Noa chillin with his classmates.

Birthday’s in November

I am still committed to having big plans for this site… don’t you worry.

In the meantime, Hana is talking up a storm and has shown to be quite tough.

Noa asked me what a hypothesis was, and that in combination with him making the connection between people and chimpanzees/gorillas/monkeys when we were discussing evolution, I am convinced he is brilliant!

Either way, Hana had her 2nd birthday on November 9th (the keen observers may note I also turned 30!) and Noa turned 4 on the 16th.

here are some pictures…