Oh, baby!
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max’s wittle bitty (part 2)
Getting rid of Bitty turned out to be a mistake. Max demanded to know where his pet had gone. Upon learning that Bitty had been returned to the pond (“to be with his friends…”), he threw an epic fit. It was so incredibly heart-rending and long, we all piled in the car. Destination: Pet store. The main pet store in Maha Sarakham is five minutes from our house, but it seemed like ages with Max screaming the whole way. The last time I’d been there was a few years before, to buy charcoal for my DIY air/water purification project (mission status: Incomplete). I had been horrified to see the neglect…
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Good Morning.
Mina wakes up smiling every morning (note her little baby teef).
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Holiday OT
We finished finals a couple of weeks ago, which signaled the beginning of three things: Our mid-year (academic year) one-month break, the second term for weekend (BA and MA) classes, and some special conversation/TOEFL night courses for university staff offered for free at our university’s Language Center. I am teaching all of the above so my weekends are very busy – from early morning to 8PM or so. Nam stays at home with the babies and our nanny comes all Saturday and a half day on Sunday. //////////// Max’s conversation reached a tipping point a few weeks back, and he uses new words that he learns independently, in Thai and…
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max’s wittle bitty
Just about a month ago, we had a big storm come in at night due to a typhoon battering Taiwan. It rained a lot more than normal, even for rainy season, and the pond in front of our house must have flowed over onto the road at some point during the night. I say must have because I didn’t actually see it happen, but found some evidence to that effect including washed up debris on our curb and a half-dead pla salit (Snakeskin Gourami). Upon poking with my finger, he wiggled a bit, so I decided to try reviving him in a spare six liter PET water bottle I had…
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crybaby, crybaby, happy babies
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Baby Updates 9/26/2010
Max is 2 years and 5 months old and can identify around forty animals in English and Thai (we’re holding back on teaching him Japanese so far) He can sing the ABC song and did so on stage with thirty kids at least twice his age this morning (at a strange baby TV expo at a local hotel [Takasila #2] I still don’t really understand) He is going through a crybaby phase (please let it be a short one) and goes to mommy when he really wants something He is currently getting over a serious cough that’s spread around schools all over Thailand /////////////////////// Mina is nine months old and…
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dominant eye
Max can play with his legos and blocks all day when he’s in the mood. He actually prefers clay sculpting, drawing, and painting, but legos are great once in a while. Unfortunately, all he has is a cheapo set that doesn’t fit together too well (too loose), but I’m saving up to buy him a big bucket of the real thing.
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A concrete mixing tub…
…makes a damn fine kiddie pool.
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stack ’em up
My Kubrick collectible Pantone robots (AKA baby toys) stack very nicely.
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Magellanic pengo
There’s an article featuring my sister, Mika (head penguin honcho/aviculturalist), over at the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s SeaNotes blog: Magellanic Magic The MBA is pretty awesome; we visited again when we took our trip back in May and Max pretty much flipped out over all the fish: It’s also nice having a brother and a sister working there – we got to eat free sea otter steaks!
