all things d@vidb
As per usual, you should all be receiving your Christmas Cards and/or New Years Cards (Japan) any day now…
I believe one of our traditions is to post the cards online a few days before you receive them, thereby ruining the surprise.
Anyways, make sure to put it on your fridge, and LET US KNOW IS YOU DO NOT RECEIVE ONE!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Love always,
Dave, Kiko, Noa and Hana
Kiko just sent me this cute picture so I thought I would share…
We went bicycle riding with Noa on his new bike, and Hana has inherited the tricycle. She was very happy (especially with her Little House on the Prairies Hat)
It’s been a long time since we only had 1 post in a month. Between a trip to Austin, Texas for me, and a trip back to Tanegashima for the rest of the family things have been crazy.
In bigger news, because of all the problems with davidandkiko.com, I have decided to move the site to vidb.net which I know shouldn’t attract too many crazies.
vidb.net -> d@vidb.net (davidb.net, get it??)
The move is semi permanent, but will work on moving back to davidandkiko when possible.
Thanks so much and in return here are lots of pictures.
BTW: Noa is really really iinto Darth Vader. Because he’s black.
and by popular demand, more pictures of what happens to our children when they step out of line.
(for the curious: a=hot tea accident, b=mosquito bite)
It was bound to happen! Despite being pretty perfect, Hana was injured today. We were at a friends house and she pulled a cup of tea over and it fell on her hands.
Or we were teaching her only to speak when spoken to… or something.
Either way, she is all bandaged up, we are all a little traumatized.
Could have been a lot worse and she doesn’t seem to have been injured (the bandages are a precaution.)
Now still likes to test the theory that she is not in any pain by trying to ride her around like a horse when she is crawling.
This is the costume Noa wears when he is tormenting Hana.
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With the help of my more camera-able friends, we are now in possession of a new video camera (Sanyo Xacti HD) and a new lens for the Canon Rebel (100mm).
The Xacti allows us to take video and copy it right to the computer instead of taking forever to encode. Yeah! So expect more pictures.
The lens is Kiko’s domain, but she seems really excited.
Here are some pictures to keep you busy in the meantime…
Happy Children
Pretty Children (takes after her Dad)
Umm… weird?
And halfies.
Nice.
Hey everyone! The site is growing and people are coming back.
Still trying to get RSS running, and a mobile version for people like me.
In the meantime, you can keep up-to-date with the latest pictures here:
www.flickr.com/photos/davidbennett/
Also, we got a new video camera and just sorting a way to get short video clips up and running.
In the meantime…
The dinosaurs are coming to get you…! (He actually said… “GO!” right after this picture.) World domination… nice
And pictures from our trip to the park…
Went to the Anpanman Museum located in Yokohama.
Suffice it to say Noa was happy, Hana is always happy, and Kiko and I were tired.
My good friend from highschool here in Japan, Toru, joined us with his girlfriend.
Noa had shaved ice…
which also made him happier.
By the way, not sure if you are interested, but in the process of setting up a lifestream. This is software developed by an acquaintance…
Seems like the website is up and running. Still a lot of things to work out, clean up a bit, make it look better and add some features, but good to have some pictures back!
We just bought some really cute shirts which have Noa’s and Hana’s names on them.
「英」はな Hana – Some sort of flower, also used in the character for English
「希空」のあ – Wish, Sky
and just for good measure…
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