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Hard Gay

Has Noa got the ghey?

That one is still up in the air, but I don’t really know how to describe Hard Gay, aka Crazy-Japanese-Comedian?-Man, other than by saying he is very very not gay. If there was a gayness competition, Noa would win hands down.

Anyways, to summarize, Hard Gay is a Japanese comedian that goes around thrusting his hips at small children. Hmm… weird. At any rate, his trademark move is to say something and then scream “Fo—!” really loud. (Teaching was great when we got to the number 4 and I had all the children of Japan screaming at me while raising there hands in a Hard Gay pose.)

… I just realized I am writing about Hard Gay so I will cut this short here. Anyways, the day before we left Hard Gay was brought to Takamatsu for the Takamatsu Festival. We stood in a huge crowd just so we could get a picture of Hard Gay screaming “Takamatsu Fo—!” which made everyone in Takamatsu feel special.

I don’t think Noa was that impressed that we made him sit through that.

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But at least we were able to get this…

Hard Gay in Takamatsu VIDEO

(people complained about the irrelevance of this post. So here is a picture of Noa destroying some fruit with dagger #1 and #2… and obviously feeling bad for the destruction that he brought upon the poor orange.)

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I’m sorry Mr. Orange.

It’s too late Noa…. too late.

Friends from Japan

Sorry about the delay in posting…
oh wait. I update the site like 10 times a week. are you guys crazy!?!?! just can’t get enough of us? that’s what I thought.

In case you didn’t remember, I forgot my flash card reader, so I have no way of getting my pictures off my camera until I am somewhere with a reader. Hence the delay between posting and between events and pictures (look for a great visit from some good friends in a few days!)

In the meantime, Kiko, Noa and I were really lucky to have some good friends from Kagawa come to Canada to visit. Ishikawa-sensei (my supervisor) and his family came to Toronto to visit. We got some Toronto, Niagara and Ottawa action in. The tri-fecta of tourism. A big thanks to Tray, Thomas, Chris, Franz and Shane for all your help.
Speaking of Shane… here is a picture.

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(Just so you know, and I’m not making this up, the previous picture in the series shows Noa poking his own eye out.)

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Here are some pictures from Ishikawa-sensei’s family trip to Canada.

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We took them to Asian Legend (the best Chinese food in Toronto!) with Thomas, Tracy, and Shane, as well as a trip to Brampton to see Mom and the dogs.

As I mentioned, we got most of the major tourism points down. Some Ottawa,

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some Toronto, some Niagara, and a whole bunch of excitement at Tracy’s in Hamilton.

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Thank you everyone for your help, and a big thanks to the Ishikawa family for coming all the way to Canada!

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A few days ago we were very lucky to have a little bit of Matt and Graham action.

Kiko, Noa and I went to lunch with two of my very good friends. It had been a long time since we have all hung out, so it was absolutely amazing to see them both and for them to finally get a chance to meet Noa.

Matt has a website and Graham is thinking about putting one up, so if it is ok, how bout we adds some links? let me know!

In the meantime here are a few photos from that day. There were more but I don’t think that Graham nor Matt would appreciate them being put up as they didn’t come out so great…. (not blaming anyone, ahem kiko ahem) … I’m just joking. We all know that any bad photos on our site belong to Lee. (who is in Japan, but thats besides the point) 😉

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Matt, Graham, thanks for lunch! As always great to see you and Noa loved meeting you both. He told me with his words.

(nice hair by the way noa. i blame that on kiko’s people.)

Our time in Canada … so far

After our relaxing vacation in Korea, we have spent the last few days readjusting to Canadian life.

We have been fortunate enough to see a few good friends (with many left still to see!) and spend a lot of time with our family. Noa is having a great time. We are taking him to a swim class and local activities run by the city. He is also enjoying the time he gets to spend with his Aunt, his Uncles and his gradma.

Kiko and I are doing well. Busy with Noa, and I am neglecting our work. We are still looking for a place to live in Tokyo, so keep an eye out for that!

In the meantime, here are a few photos from the trip so far…

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What’s that?? What? Excuse me? Do I recall someone doubting Noa’s standing and crawling abilities?? Is that Noa standing??? I think so… bruck! (bruck?)

After Noa exercising his independence through standing, we decide to knock him back down with some super frightening bubbles from Kiko’s vicious bubble gun.

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We then follow that up with forcing him through a long red tunnel (which he actually enjoyed more than we hoped expected.)

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We are good parents are our baby is cute.

That is all. (don’t hate us because we are beautiful.)

Twin Daggers

This was supposed to be a post about our time in Canada (see tomorrow’s post!), but instead we have some breaking news…

Dagger Has a Friend. Twin Dagger (I wish I had taken pictures, but we took him to a little play place and he proceeded to destory the other children with his regular assortment of punches and hair pulling. He then realized that dagger could be used as a weapon and proceeded to bite some kids face. nice.)
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Now that Noa has a range of weapons and special attacks, I realized it was time to impart some fatherly wisdom.

Noa, with great power, comes great responsiblity. Use dagger wisely.

(… you don’t like the advice? My original course of action involved:

  1. Biting Noa after he bit me. (I made him cry.)
  2. Enticing Noa to bite my nose and then scream at him for biting me.

That is all.

Noa in Korea! (대한민국)

On our way back to Canada, we had a mini-vacation-type 3 day 2 night stopover in Korea. Although we ended up spending the majority of our time relaxing in our very nice hotel, we did eat some amazing korean bbq and Noa had his first swimming pool experience.

Here are a few pictures from our Korea adventure.

(Noa thought he would ride with us until I shoved him in the suitcase.)

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‘Help me’ he said. I said “no.” ‘Get back in your suitcase.”

No Korean adventure is complete without public protests,

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Korean flags flown everywhere accordians,

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and Shane Jeans.

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As I mentioned above, Noa had his first pool experience. He absolutely loved it. He loved it (and I’m being serious) right up until I dunked him underneath the water to see what would happen. I had read somewhere that babies automagically hold their breath when they are pushed underwater.

They don’t. Who knew? (actually, Kiko knew. She tried to prevent me.)

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jesus christ my legs are hairy. and you love it.

Finally, when Noa climbed out of the suitcase we let the gigantic korean baby eating bear after him.

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Noa’s Training

Along with his rigourous ninja training, we also train Noa to do more mundane things.

…like using dagger to destroy a plum (his first!)…

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An even better showcase of Noa’s brillance is him responding to his own name. Here is some video of Kiko calling out his name (“Bennett Noa-kun!” [Japanese name order and -kun, a Japanese honorific] and Noa respoding by raising his hand and saying “Hai!” [yes!]. My baby can kick your baby’s ass. Even if your baby doesn’t even exist yet.

DOWNLOAD NOA’S SELF-AWARENESS VIDEO HERE

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