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short & sweet : back in Tanegashima for Obon

Apparently I am the only one that thinks this is a cute picture…

In other news:

Noa and I have been going to the ocean daily. He likes to prance around and jog. Today he went pretty far in with me only to be swept to shore by a wave and never again to want to go into the ocean.

Hana managed to stop saying “mama” and for the first time called Noa by his name… “ng-a”

that is all.

Off to Singapore on Sunday and all the family is back together in Tokyo on the 23rd.

Family trip to Tanegashima

It’s summer vacation! So we can either have the kids hang around all summer and drive us (mostly Kiko!) crazy, or we can ship the family off to Tanegashima.

This year, it happens to align with the total eclipse (I’ll give you a hint… rain) where the Southern tip of Tanegashima was in the 100% zone.

We also took a side trip to Yakushima, the island that inspired Hayao Miayazaki’s Princess Mononoke (Look it up) and Noa got to play with nature (touch bugs), and both Hana and Noa got to play with their cousins.

I took one week (the first one) with them and am heading back to Tokyo shortly. I have a feeling he is going to forget all his English by the time he gets back, so I have loaded him up with some Super Why! (Look it up!) and Transformers.

In the meantime, here is our week in pictures…

RumiRumi (Noa’s personal hair assistant) Dad is on the right.

Noa getting some Super Why in the mix with Hina.

Our dissapointing but still cool 100% total eclipse. (It did get really dark outside for 2 minutes!)

Hana throwing a tantrum over the fact that we couldn’t actually see the eclipse.

Noa’s friend George. I am too lazy to turn it the right way round.

Noa being cool.

Both Noa and Hana really enjoyed the ocean this time around.

Noa enjoys relaxing…

… and Hana enjoys posing.

All of these were taken with the iPhone camera so apologies in advance. (Actually they came out pretty good.)

Since I am making this post in the ghetto, you will have to squint and turn your head appropriately to enjoy the pictures.

I am going to miss everyone while they are here, but with trips to Dalian, China and Singapore coming up… will be busy.

Family Picture at Fireworks

So … umm.. apparently there is one thing more frightening than Tickle me Elmo… fireworks.

Noa has been scared of fireworks since he was born, and now at 3 1/2, no exceptions.

He freaks out. Screams, cries, runs away (almost gets hit by a bus) and hangs out in McDonalds.

Here is a family picture taken before the happening.

Kiko’s Camera: Testing the EOS5D Mark II

Have a camera that needs to be tested.

I hate to say it, but Kiko might be better at taking pictures than I am…. take a look.

Now that that is out of the way…

and now the girl

and then I make her clean

the end.

At the park … post haircut

Hi Team.

How are you today? It is 11pm and I am just getting home from work.

Booooo

On the other hand, I work at a computer company which is kind of fun.

Let’s see what we’ve been up to…

Oooh… aaah! Super intelligent us.

How about the park?

and some cute for good measure….

Hmm… need to update more.

Hana: Unbroke!

I fixed my child.

She is really into posing by the way. She puts her fingers on her cheeks and says “kawaii!” which means cute.

I believe she is posing on behalf of the dog.

Winter…?

I was going through our Canada pictures and came across these…

Nice and wintery… only these weren’t taken in Canada. They were taken in Nagano… or somewhere in Japan with snow.

Thought they were cute…. Canada pictures are coming soon.

Broke in Canada

So Canada was amazing. Got to see lots of friends, spend the time downtown with Tracy, see family, really great!

Noa had a fantastic time and declared he wanted to build a home behind Tracy’s house.

Everything was really good.. right until we are about to go home.

How we Broke Hana

Hana rolled off the bed the night before we left for Canada… as she did every night. However this time she cried quite a bit. Checked her head for blood, put her back to sleep. In the morning she cried really hard whenever we picked her up. She was also touching her ear, so we figured that she had an earache or was sensing that we were about to leave.

This continued all the way through the flight. We tried to comfort her by moving her around and patting her back.

Then we get back to Japan. 38 hrs late I take off her clothes to change her and see a huge bruise on her left shoulder.

An x-ray later we found out she has a broken collarbone…. boo…. really sad.

That is my excuse for not updating earlier!