Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful(ly hot!)
The countdown to Christmas is heating up (and it's still pretty hot literally too) in the Mast household! Last night we did our first Christmas shopping at Toys R Us and now have wrapped presents tantalizing the girls in the living room! We also got our first box of presents from home today- thank you Del and Gail!! Claire can hardly stand it that she has to wait another two weeks! We enjoyed going to English church on Sunday and singing some Christmas songs too.
I thought it had been a while since I'd written an update on the girls, so here's the latest for anyone else who's interested...
Claire and Eliza are both really into our fish Dorothy (has a girl name, but we call it a "him"). They like watch him move rocks all around his aquarium (Claire even saw him picking up rocks in his mouth and spitting them out!). We like to give him the frozen blood worms and watch him gobble them up every morning and before bed.
Eliza is a little parrot these days- copying the last two words of every sentence we say. She loves to get powdered before bed (one of our attempts to be like Thais and stay cool). She flops down on her tummy and says "powder back!" and wiggles her bottom in delighted anticipation. She is also learning to pray things like "Dear Ye-sus. I love you. Amen." We've taught both girls to kneel and fold their hands because other wise they are flopping like fish on the bed and paying no attention to "Ye-sus." She loves riding around town in her new red stroller and watching Peep movies. She makes a gigantic mess eating- especially rice which she loves! When she's in a good mood, she can do a perfect wai (bow) and everyone loves that!
Claire is still really into books- especially now that we found an English library in Bangkok! She loves to sit down with a stack of books and "read" aloud to herself. She is learning to help around the house- helping hang out clothes, clear the table, do a little vacuuming, and helping cooking (breaking eggs is a favorite). She is getting to be quite a big girl, but not to big for much loved lamby- who doesn't leave the house because he embarrasses us to much with his dirty self! She loves riding in taxis and on the skytrain (she runs up to the guards and they let her through without paying and says "kop khun ka!" (thank you). She is a good sis to Eliza- always coming up with games for them to play together like parades, and trains, and boats and making her howl with laughter in bed at night. Her new favorite thing is our "family game" of Dominoes which she plays on her own (with only a little oversight from mom or dad). She is tremendously thrilled with herself when she wins!
-Candice