MMMMM Dessert

Josh and Danielle came over for dinner on Monday and Danielle brought a dessert. There was white chocolate on the top so she somehow thought she would lick the top clean. After about 5 mins it looked like someone had cleaned the top in the sink! There is no doubt she loves chocolate!

Kayleigh Washing Dishes

This afternoon, Kayleigh wanted to wash dishes while mommy cooked dinner. So, she got her little stool which no one else can touch, and she took it over to the sink. The following video shows it much better.

Morning Dishes

This morning Kayleigh got up and started playing with all her toys she hadn't played with in about three weeks. So, after 30 mins of that, she decided she wanted to wash the dishes (really just play in the water). Alisa got her little stool and put it up to the sink so she could wash like mommy and A-Yi.

Airport Games

As we were waiting for one of our flights today, Kayleigh found some friends that she made during our time in Thailand and wanted to play hide-and-go-seek with them. So after running around the gate area, not too sure of the rules, she finally started to get the fact that you do not want to be found. So, she hid with one of the older girls and decided she liked the game. After she was found, they told her she was "it". Then she proceeded to go and hide with the rest of them until the older girl helped her be "it".




Kayleigh learning how to cover her eyes and count at the same time (Hopefully without peeking)


This is Kayleigh covering her eyes and counting (She likes to give herself a good chance of finding the other kids hiding)

Breakfast Club at the Juniper Tree

This was a great picture of our normal routine for breakfast at the Juniper Tree each morning. All the kids and their parents sat at one table while enjoying the blessings of good bread and incredible pineapple and guava. Breakfast was at 8 so everyone had been up and about for sometime before eating. This was a fun time of enjoying our friends at a meal.

Crayon Lipstick

We caught Kayleigh applying crayon to Zeb's face and lips this morning before breakfast. Kayleigh was so excited when Zeb had on lipstick of different colors. She kept saying "baby" over and over again while applying. Zeb was surprisingly compliant during the whole process.

Airport Museum

Today we had a great time at the airport museum here in Chiang Mai with our friends Julianna, Lydia, Wendy Jane, and Vera. As you know, Kayleigh loves planes and this is one of her favorite pastimes, to watch planes taking off and landing.


This is Kayleigh telling me that there was a big 747 taking off on the runway behind me.


This is the 747 that took off.

Our First Day At The Juniper Tree

Yesterday we moved in to the Juniper Tree to have a couple days of relaxing and rest before returning to China. Well, today has been not as restful has I thought it would be! Before I tell you how our day has gone I need to give you some back ground information. While we were at our conference here many of our friends were sick. Two of our friends ended up in the hospital. Don't worry both are fine and recovering. Also, most all the kids got some sort of fever and others got pink eye. John and I were commenting on how we were really blessed that none of us had gotten sick the whole time we were there. Well, it just now caught up with us. The day we moved to the Juniper Tree John realized he was getting the pink eye that was going around. Fortunately, he was able to get some drops for that. This morning John woke up with a fever and chills and has been in the bed all day. John has decided to rename this virus going around as the "kick your butt" virus. He says he hasn't felt this bad since he was little. And to top it off he decided to throw up before I put Zeb to bed in the the bathroom! So today hasn't been the most restful day for me as I have been trying to handle two kids by myself. It took me half the day to realize that the reason Zeb wouldn't sleep past 45mins was because the room we had him sleeping in was freezing! Then when Kayleigh woke up from her nap she was running a fever. Lets hope and pray that she doesn't have what her dad has. However, she has manged to enjoy herself and ask me about a million times to go swing. She remembers that we lived here two short months ago because she told me today that her Papa pushed her "high" in the swing. Well lets hope tomorrow is a better day. I think we are all about ready to get back home. I am sure Zeb is tired of sleeping in the bathroom!

Final Night Banquet

This was the last night of the conference that we attended in Chiang Mai. We had a banquet to celebrate our time together and encouraging one another in the years ahead of us. Alisa looks as beautiful as ever, and I look the same. We had a great time celebrating with friends that we will probably not see again for a long time. We had a great time and learned a ton.

Pals

Julianna and Kayleigh are pretty much best buds. Whenever they get the chance they like to hang out and play. Chase is a favorite game of theirs with added screaming. We were in the hotel lobby one evening waiting to go out and they decided to play in the middle of the downstairs lobby area. A friend of our took these pictures for us and sent them to me. Enjoy!