What is up
How did all that time slide by since our last blog?? Life has been full- mostly full of being students and teachers....and many small happenings. Here are some truly random things from our life...
1) Silas loves cooked oatmeal and is afraid of giants. He has been screaming with night terrors recently. He still loves school and has a new nickname from his teacher- Sai Sa-aat (clean and pure- a take off of his Thai name Sai which sounds like a short version of Silas).
2)Claire and Eliza both got new guinea pigs- Heidi and Scuttle. Heidi already died and we are pretty sure we have the worst pet death record ever.
3) Tom likes to do a ken ken puzzle before bed. He's started teaching small groups of motivated English learners at a local temple school.
4) Current read alouds: Daddy is reading Swiss Family Robinson and Mommy is reading The Moffats. Silas's favorite bedtime story is Pokey Little Puppy.
5) Candice drinks tea from her specially shaped Japanese tea cup every morning and likes to bake things with lemons (now that we finally have them in our area!).
6) Claire is struggling with math at school (division- ugh) and homework can be a long, arduous process for kid and parents. She is the proud first-time owner of a library card (from school) and loves to read as much as ever.
7) Candice loves her high school girl's English class that meets at the foundation.
8) After coming down with the plague a few weekends ago, we're all healthy again- except for coughs and plan to take a few days to go to the beach during a Thai holiday this week.
9) Our lotus plant is growing madly and blooming too. It makes our house look so much more Thai.
10) We got to go to Geat's house for supper. She made a special rice soup, the kids raced tricycles in the apartment's hallway and we smeared icing from the birthday cake on each other's faces.
11) The Reach team is in their finale weeks here. We are planning parties and debriefing and good-byes. They will be very missed.
12) Eliza is always collecting things she finds on the ground and won't let me throw away any interesting boxes. She bought a styrofoam airplane kite at the beach yesterday and was pretty good at flying it. She had fun copying modern art in homeschool this week.
More updates and pictures very soon! We have been without our camera since we left our charger in Morocco- hence the lack of photos.