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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

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Mina is nine months old and can stand unsupported for 7-8 second stretches
She wakes up smiling and can shake her head no
She can scream louder and higher than humanly possible (this usually happens when you’ve wronged her by taking foreign objects out of her mouth or wiping her face clean)
She fights dirty and has recently added a new move – Super Baby Razor Tooth Chomp
She is currently coming down with a serious cough that’s spread around schools all over Thailand

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.

A concrete mixing tub…

…makes a damn fine kiddie pool.

stack ’em up

My Kubrick collectible Pantone robots (AKA baby toys) stack very nicely.

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!

robot babies

Lookin’ kinda spaced out.

First down, second down

First born in particular has a habit of spinning around and crocodile rolling, but number two pulls hair and bites in her sleep.

puppets

From the thumb: Blue octopus, gray elephant, red seahorse, yellow crab, green octopus.

He was totally serious about playing with them and made me sit down to watch.

The Boobie Mushroom and Leafy Mothra

Both recent finds when all I had was a crappy cell phone camera.

20100804samsungcell0034 — The boobie mushroom is the size of a large charsiu bau and appears after a heavy rain.

This is the first time I’ve seen this type of mushroom here and one can only wonder if licking the nipple would be deadly or not.

20100804samsungcell0036 — The leaf-winged moth AKA Leafy Mothra

I found Leafy Mothra in our driveway and captured it in an empty mustard jar for Max to see. He was duly impressed, as the entire body was blaze orange. Leafy Mothra was about 2″ long.

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