Fantasy Football

Today Greg, manager of the Ubergeeken, awared my team (The Diaper Bombers) with the Golden Poo award in our family fantasy football league.

Christmas Lights

Kit regularly comes up with words or phrases that we didn't know she knew. I will try to enter more of them into the blog. Today's phrase is how about.

Kit asked, "How about a cookie?"

She then asked, "How about Mommy hai?"
hai is Thai for give (it to me)

Last night we drove around Santa Clara in the rain looking at Christmas lights. Kit loved it. Her favorite things are bears and trains. Here are some of our favorites:


2976 Taper Ave.


1451 Lincoln Ave.


1420 Lincoln Ave.


1450 Bellony St.


345 Sloat Ct.


375 Los Padres


They won the award for best residential display in Santa Clara for the past 10 years!

Flight cancelled

Alaska Airlines Cancels 47 Flights Due to Severe Winter Weather in Pacific Northwest.
The estimated hold time for the next reservations agent is 84 minutes. Yikes! Does not look like we will be able to travel today.
:(

Dinner and Park

The other night Kit was being a little fussy about eating so I tried making it fun for her. We ate right out of the pan right there on the kitchen floor.
The huge spoon made it fun and she had to open her mouth wide to let the food in. We had a fun time and she ate very well. She gave it two thumbs up!
We got these floor pillows in Thailand. Kit gives them a thumbs up!

Today Kit met Granddad and Uncle Jeff at Palo Alto's Mitchell Park. Unfortunately, Kit fell and got a swollen lip. She didn't cry much though. She enjoyed the children's library, particularly since they had two books which included Thai phrases. Afterwards we had lunch at Jing Jing then gelato, yum! We stopped at the Palo Alto Junior Museum on the way home.
Kit's sweet lower lip just before her accident.
And the sad photo of her lip after getting home. She enjoys the popiscles.

Christmas in the Park

Kit loves Christmas lights. Last night we took her to Christmas in the Park. She enjoyed the bears, the train and the flying penguins wearing parachutes.
Getting dressed up for the evening outing.

Kanchanaburi

While in Thailand we checked out our land in Kanchanaburi. We renewed the lease for the lady farming the land. She mainly grows tapioca.

Our little country road.

View from where we want to build a house someday. I look forward to fishing this quiet cove.

Kit playing in a nearby waterfall.

Rat: The New Chicken

In order to get Kit to eat we have told her that many things were chicken when, in fact, they were not. This changed during our trip to Thailand. Kit tried rat and loved it. Everything, including chicken, is now called rat. She would say, "noo eek" which means, "more rat please" in Thai.
Rat with garlic and black pepper.

Shopping

Kit shopping at the Siam Paragon mall in Bangkok.

23 Months Old

Kit turned 23 months old yesterday.


I found her playing in the closet with a toy.


She is now 32.5 inches tall and weighs 22 pounds. That puts her on pace to be 5'6" as an adult.

Two quotes from our trip to Thailand:

1) Tuk's nephew, Dong, came home from school very proud and announced (in Thai), "Aunt Tuk, today the teacher didn't have to spank me!"

2) At the checkout counter a cashier informed me that I could not purchase a case of beer during work / school hours... because it did not meet the legal minimum of 10 liters. I must purchase an additional three large bottles to comply with the law. Apparently if you are going to drink during work / school hours you must buy enough for everyone.

Back Home

The flight out of Bangkok this morning was Kit's 13th flight. Until now she has been excellent so I wondered if 13 would be unlucky for us, and it was. She threw a screaming fit upon taking her seat. Fortunately, once the plane finally got in the air she fell asleep. She was exhausted from getting up at 4:00 AM to make the flight.

When she awoke we gave her some milk. She drank it too quickly and spit it all back up. After getting everything cleaned up and her changed into a new set of clothes the "fasten seatbelt" light came on in preparation for landing. At the same moment Kit's face turned red and she hunched over saying, "Eeeeee..." After landing we were able to get to a restroom to change her again.

Fortunately, the 13th flight is behind us. At Narita airport Kit had some soba soup and played for an hour in the Kid zone.

The Kid zone also has a nice tatami-room for the Kids to enjoy.

She was perfect on the flight to San Francisco, her 14th flight. She even helped collect the luggage.

Stephanie created this fantastic welcome home sign for Kit. The girls were so happy to see each other.

Stuck in Thailand

Well, with the airport closed we're "stuck" in Thailand for the time being. The regional airports typically all link through Bangkok. Until they establish direct flights and expand capability to handle more international departures we, and about 100,000 of our fellow foreigner friends, are stuck.