hana – Page 44 – d@vidb dot net

January is Cold

Hi Everyone

I think I have finally got a hold on my video and pictures which should make for some regular uploading.

Hana is walking and can say Dada and Mama. She makes it pretty clear what she wants to do.

Noa is speaking English all the time but says some ridiculous things. Nothing comes to mind right now, but I will be sure to let you know. He still loves Power Rangers and riding his bike.

For all those picture requests here are some recent photos:

Christmas Photos

Some photos from Christmas

Noa in all his kamen rider (masked rider) glory

Hana pushing a shopping cart

Our new Roomba!?

Wish we could have spent it with all of you, but Noa definitely had a good time and got most of what he wanted from Santa.

Happy New Year 2009

Happy New Year from Kagawa and David’s iPhone.

Pictures to come shortly.

Love
David, Kiko, Noa, and Hana

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and … Happy Holidays?

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

Hana is chillin

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)

davidandkiko.com -> vidb.net?

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.

Crime and Punishment – By popular Demand

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)

Injuries and Halloween

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.

Hana answering the phone

So Hana can stand on things and started making sense of stuff.

She loves to answer the phone, but doesn’t get it quite right.

She puts it on top of her head and makes a loud noise.

New lens, New Video Camera … new stuff!

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.