During our visit to Universal Studios…we were heading home, and were drawn to a crowd that had some “NYC Street Performers”…since my boys love their music…we stopped and checked it out!! Lo and behold, little Z was the only American and the smallest volunteer pulled from the crowd to do a few dances with the crew!! It was priceless…and afterwards, he was getting requests to have his photo taken with all of the other tourists!!! Funny little guy!
…and for your enjoyment, a little video!
The boys LOVE my phone and taking photos…on any given day, I can delete about 50 to 75 photos that they just “snap”…there are a few that make the cut…and here’s to Little Brando’s budding photography career:
(This photo by Trevor…I love grabbing my phone and seeing what the little monkey’s have been up to!)
…and here is the face behind the camera!!!!
Time to put that tree up. Not such a big deal, but we are in Asia and far from home…so I’m just letting you all know, you can do it, we DO do it and we like it! (Can you tell I’ve totally overdone the posts tonight?)…There’s no story, I forgot to put the Christmas music on the iPod, the boys were throwing “balls” everywhere and I was just happy that the tree got up…
I DO like the lights on a tree…and I like that feeling of “home”…but, the bottom line is, the tree is up and the boys are happy! That makes this mama happy! Now bring on the holidays!!
We missed our extended family who celebrated with us last year…and to be honest, Thanksgiving snuck up on us just a bit…so, I forgot to order a cooked turkey (I own a toaster oven, JEEZ!). We came back from Singapore on a Tuesday and Thanksgiving was on Thursday…which meant a LOT of pounding the pavement, trying to get everything just right!! NO store has EXACTLY what you need…let’s just say, I hit about 6 of them, and a couple of them, more than once, to get 2 roasted chickens, a pan of green been casserole, a bowl of stuffing, a vat of mashed potatoes, gravy and 2 apple pies…and my toaster oven was working OVERTIME trying to get everything cooked! But we did it, and it was PERFECT!!! Just the way I like my holiday meals to be…yummy, relaxed and lots of love!
Our wonderful nanny, Sok’im, invtited us to a party at her “homeland” to celebrate a good year. We celebrated my birthday with the kids, packed up the car and drove about 45 minutes out of town and arrived! It was fun to meet the rest of her family, celebrate with people we already knew and see where she comes from! …she even went to the stove (something she doesn’t do often) to make me Tom Yum soup!!! The people in our lives here are wonderful. We love sharing our stories and our families with each other…We love you “Ming Im”!! (Auntie Sokím)
There was music, food, beer and wine, just for Mr. Jim!!
Older sister Chhim (who has worked for Jim in the past)
With Ming Im (we have NEVER seen Sokím ALL dressed up and looking so beautiful!!!)
All of the kids LOVED my camera and that they could see their photo immediately. They also loved the “Face View” function and how they could see their faces while I was taking the photo!! They kept asking for “Mui teit!” (One more!!)
Thank you for sharing your family with us!!
