I think most of you know this by now but I will post it anyway. The kids finish up the school year June 23rd and we will be moving back to the states shortly after that!!! Danny will have to work in Saudi Arabia every other month for the rest of this year then will be back in the Houston office. So we will be in Louisiana most of the summer and then move to Spring! (The same location we were before this crazy year of moving) We are all very excited to return to our "normal" life back home. We will miss all of our help here!!! I might go into shock and have to learn how to wash clothes again...but I think I will manage!!! I will keep everyone posted and can not wait to see you all.
Natalie= Before we left Houston she was a Blue belt in Tae Kwon Do. She started taking lessons here with a Korean Master and he wanted her to learn the way they do things here...so she has just received her Blue belt and is now at the same level in 2 different forms of TKD. We are very proud of her!
Grey= He is 100% little boy! And I think he is part monkey due to the fact that he climbs on everything and loves bananas! HA!!! His scar is healing very nice. It still has a small scab on the bad side of the wound but the rest of it is barely visible. He said he can not wait to go to Louisiana! I think he just wants to get spoiled by everyone! He wants to be like his sister and take TKD so that should be fun having them both kicking and punching around the house. Maybe we will make a padded room in the new house!
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Moving to Texas
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
APRIL
Is it really April already???? I guess we have been very busy since my last post in Feb. Most of you know we went on an awesome vacation to Australia and New Zealand. I want to post my favorite pics but this site has changed things and I have yet to figure out how to post pictures! As soon as I figure this out, you will be the first to know! I hope everyone is having a great 2009!
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
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Mardi Gras
At the school they encourage us parents to go to the school to teach the kids about different cultures. So since it is Mardi Gras time I decided we could make some mask and necklaces. I brought in my i pod and had the mardi gras music playing...I told them about the floats and beads and king cake. (I did not think the kids would understand why the parents sat in the back of trucks with alcoholic beverages so I left that part out!) We made necklaces with colored noodles...Purple, Gold and Green. Grey and I painted them a few days before so they had time to dry. I think
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Rubber Trees
This is a rubber tree farm. All of the trees have little bowls attached to them to collect the rubber. Small incisions are cut into the trees’ bark at night so that latex sap will drip longer before drying out in the tropical sun. Workers collect the tapped latex the following morning. Progressively lower cuts are made in the rubber trees, allowing them to be tapped for many years.
After sufficient amounts are collected, basins of latex are processed with an acid to coagulate it, making the latex more solid. The acid is then removed by rolling the latex under pressure into thin sheets, which are smoked over a fire to stabilize the rubber. In that form the rubber can be exported.
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Cu chi Tunnels
These are the tunnels that were used during the "American war" The little Vietnamese men would live underground as long as they had to and set traps for the Americans that would try to get in them. They cooked food in the little kitchen and made trails up to the surface for the smoke to escape. They also made little oxygen holes and made them look like ant hills on the surface. The tunnels are very small. I was very proud of myself for going down in them! It was not a happy place to visit because they show a film on this one guy that was known as the best "rat" killer...aka Americans that found their underground hide out. The kids enjoyed seeing the big holes in the ground from the B 52 bombs!
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Greys trip to the "Kaboda" (pagoda)
This was a field trip set up by the school. We traveled about 1 mile to this Pagoda. Grey calls it the Kaboda and can not change it even we correct him. The kids had a great time learning all about the Buddhist and how they pray. I think they enjoyed feeding the fish and turtles after the tour the best!
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