Pitching In

The parents, staff, and students at ISB have been doing something amazing over the past 2 weeks. They have launched a flood relief effort that is supplying food, water, medicine, and other necessities to flood victims in our area. (See my facebook page for an awesome and moving video of the middle and high school kids)
I took some snaps of D's class taking a shift in the Flood Relief Room at ISB today. Those 1st graders can pack a bag of necessities like nobody's business! So proud of our global citizens!
Here, they sit and listen to instructions.

 Ready at their stations. (D was in charge of the insect repellent)

 Fill those bags!

 They make a great team!

So proud of our kids!!!

Halloween 2011

It made the grown-ups (who remember trick or treating on cool, fall evenings) miss autumn weather back home, but our hot, sweaty kids had a great night out filling their bags with goodies!

 Group shot with Snow White, Reid the Fierce, a firefighter, a cowgirl, Spiderman, Batman, a little punkin, and a pirate.

 Trick or treat!

Happy Halloween friends and family! Such good fun!!!

Pattaya Mini Vaca

Last week an opportunity for a beach getaway arose and we decided to take advantage of it. T's office closed down Thursday and Friday due to the risk of flooding. So, we packed up our sand toys and headed for the gulf.

Diving for sand dollars.

Other fabulous Nichada families were there too so we had a ton of fun playing and dining with friends.

Who ordered the yummy cocktail served in a hollowed pineapple with carrots making up the facial features??? Me!

We also handed the underwater camera to the kids and let them snap all the pool fun. Love it!

The girls with creative hair-dos!

On our way back, we stopped at The Sri Racha Tiger Zoo. A real treasure of Thai family fun. :) We did have fun despite a very humid day. Tiger show, elephant show, feeding baby tigers, capybaras, and kids!

Hungry baby tigers.

Capybaras like green beans!

Kids like popsicles!

Who likes scorpions?! And I don't think this was featured just because of Halloween!

Another Fantastic City

We returned home today from our trip to Hong Kong. We are tired but we are happy! I'll blog briefly to say that we had a marvelous time and I'll post a photo album on Facebook. I've gotten some feedback that my video slideshows are not working properly for all viewers.

Anyway, we loved Hong Kong. Our friends Sara and Paul, and their gorgeous daughers, were wonderful tour guides and company and we hope to host them here in Bangkok soon!

 We only had 3 days but I think we saw the best of HK, including Stanley Market, Deep Water Bay, Repulse Bay,Victoria Peak and Victoria Harbor, the downtown area, sunset dinner at Cafe Deco, The Ngong Ping 360 experience, the giant buddha, Starferry and Harbor laser show, the bat wing junk, and last but definitely not least, Disneyland Hong Kong. I would surely go back to do parks and museums. We'll see if we can make another stop someday!

T is the Birthday Boy!

We all enjoyed celebrating T's birthday this evening. Dinner of his choice, ice cream cake, and the gift at the top of his wish list...

 All smiles while enjoying that cake!

 C, mastering the knife.

 Make sure you download some games for us dad!

We Ran to Rebuild!

With all the devastating flooding here in Thailand, our PTA organized a charity run for this afternoon. The kids and I ran to rebuild!

The kids loved running with their buddy Reid. All 3 were so fired up to do this!

Their age group was asked to run just 100 meters, but our little over-achievers were determined to do a full 400. So proud of them!

Mommy runs!

 D was very proud of my 3rd place trophy. Here she is, celebrating.

Prayers for Thailand please! The worse may be yet to come.

Can He Really be 4??

We've just wrapped up a fun birthday week for C. Our big 4-year-old. We kicked off the celebrations with Mickey Mouse cupcakes and a little party at school on Monday. Then dinner of his choice and ice cream cake on Monday night. He opened his gifts from family and loved all his new, fun things. Proud of him too, that in the days following, as we made space in the playroom for his new things, he was so willing to pass some old toys along to kids who could use them. Such a big boy, excited about new things, and happy to share with other kids too.
Finally, a really fun party on Saturday with some of his best friends at Funarium. We had a silly monster theme. It was a great week celebrating our big boy!