Twin Baby Photobook by Shutterfly.com

We have made a photobook of our cross country road trip for aunt Zona and Sandy.  Last night we got a chance to look at the real book and it looks great!  Shutterfly really does make it look professional. We'll make a lot more in the future.  We're very pleased with the result of our photobook.  It looks better than in the computer! We're happy to share it with you.  Hope you enjoy.

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Anchalee read Dr. Seuss's book "Go Dog Go!"

One of our friends gave Suwan and Anchalee a whole set of Dr. Seuss's Books.  We started to read together and we had great fun.  The girls seem to know a lot of words they learn from their four years experience of observation and practice word writing.  I don't expect them to know that much at this age but they sure surprised me a lot of time.  They both love to read books, but by far the Dr. Seuss's ones are the best.

                                      Here is a video of Anchalee, the younger twins reading "Go Dog Go!

Happy Thanksgiving

The girls were having Thanksgiving Party at school last Tuesday.  All the kids were putting on American Indian headdresses and Pilgrim-hats that they made in class.  Their teacher helped them make hand printed turkey and decorated with feathers. The parents brought in home made ethnic food to share with students and others.  I had a good time watching and playing with the kids.  When it was time to eat, they all lined up to wash their hand.  3 other parents and I were helping the little one dished up their plates.  I made Chinese chicken bun to share but that was quite popular as pizza and mac and cheese.

Twin Girls Costume - Halloween Party at Beltsville Preschool

Suwan, the older twin girl dresses up as Cleopatra

Anchalee, the younger twins dresses up as Thumbelina

Last Friday, the girls' school were having a fall harvest and Halloween party for students.  They seemed to enjoyed and having a lot of fun.  The girls' school is pretty unique with such a diversity groups of kids.  They have friends that speaks Spanish and Chinese.  I wish I could do better job teaching the girls Thai.

I  was watching the kids having fun showing each other costumes.  There were 3 batmen, UPS boy, Queen, strawberry short cake, Ghost, and other I don't even know.  The kids were cute. Couple of parents hand made some goody bags for the children and baked cupcakes.  Suwan and Anchalee both ate 2 cup cakes and brought home little Halloween goodies.

Pledge of Allegiance

Anchalee surprised me last night when she told me that she would pledge alligence to me.  I listen to her and was quite impressed that she could do that.
Here what she said "I have to raise my right hand first, my teacher said." The she started to recite the Pledge which says...
"I pledge Allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with Liberty and Justice for all."
I guess four years olds are smarter than we think, ha.




 

What 4 years-old kids think

Yesterday, Suwan spilled some drink on the coffee table.  I asked her not to take the cover off the zippy cup buy she did it anyway.  After the spilled, I asked her to get wipe the table.  She was complaining about table surface is too rough and that it was very hard to get all the liquid out.  "This is too hard, why are you choosing me to do this job, mom?"  She looked at me with such an innocent eyes.  I told her be cause she created the mess and she had to clean it up.  She didn't say any thing afterward.  I thought that was cute what she said to me.

The other day, Anchalee ran to me and told me that her wish didn't come true.  When I asked her what her wish was she told me that she wished for not to have advertisement on television so that she can watches cartoon continuously.  I told her it will be pretty hard to have that wish come true.

Seeing Grizzly Bear at Yellowstone

Yesterday we went back to Yellowstone National Park again to visit sites we've never been.  We drove to the northern part to see Mammoth Hot Spring which is very pretty to look at.  Daddy took us to visit the old fort at the hot spring and we all had lunch at a restaurant.  It was rainy mixed with hailstorm.  Anchalee spotted 3 antelopes running away from hailstorm up the hill.  We drove to the west to the highest part of the park but got stuck on traffic for awhile.  A car in front of the line just stopped right in the middle of the road causing back up traffic.  Couple tourists came out of their car and took pictures.  We couldn't understand what was they taking picture of.  Later on, we realized that there was a grizzly bear just off the road.  We only see his back and behind.  He was busy looking for thing to eat on the ground.  He didn't pay any attention to us.  Daddy has some pictures of him. 



We took a little hike to see Artist Pot hotspring and it was quite cold.  At one point we ran to see a water fall in the rain.  We got wet even in our raincoats.

On the way back home we ran into another traffic due to 2 buffalo walking on the road.  Then we waited 20 minutes because of the construction.
 

Yellowstone National Park

Wild buffalo enjoyed their morning meal by Madison River in Yellowstone Park

Suwan and Anchalee near hot pool in the park

Old Faithful erupting at its peak

Bubbling Mud Pots

One of hundred of geysers in Yellowstone

Artist Point, it looks much prettier in real life than this.

As you can see we have a lot of fun and got to see so many things in Yellowstone National Park.  Finally we'd got to see more than one buffalo which we experienced at Buffalo Range last week.  We saw elk from far away and daddy also spotted a coyote.  The geysers are very impressive but sent out smell of sulfur all over the place.  We got really excited to see the Old Faithful that shot up so high.  We had lunch at the cafeteria and it was pretty good.  We ended our day with stopping by at the playground near the hotel and had Chinese food for dinner.  It was yummy!

Great time in Washington

We're having such a wonderful time here in Washington. We stayed at Best Western Hotel in downtown Edmonds. The weather was still cold but we got out and played at playgrounds anyway. We spent a lot of time at aunt Zona and uncle Bill's house. Aunt Zona brought out toys which belongs to our cousins when they were young and so many good library books for us. We spent almost every minutes playing with toys.

We had surprised birthday party with gifts. That was unexpected! We got to have second chocolate cake and blow four more candles. Our first birthday celebration was in Seaside. We were just leaving a camp ground at Crescent City , Ca. Daddy found a bakery shop in Cannon Beach which has a very good chocolate cake. The lady decorated our names on the cake for us and she sprinkled it with a lot of blue sparkles.

Anchalee is now quitting mommy's milk and Suwan is now quitting pacifier. We promised mom and day that we would quite them when we turned four and we did!

We spent a week in Coupeville in Whidbey Island. Mom picked a lot of mussels from the beach and we ate them all up. Daddy said that Penn Cove mussels are the most famous here. We saw how they grow them in the bay in front of our rented home. We were lucky to get to see boat race at the festival. Susan, Ben and Amy came to join us at the festival. We had BBQ salmon for lunch with clam chowder and fried bread. We even had our face and hand painted at kids' activity table. Get to visit the nicest playground ant Langley.

Carla, Kyle and Mckenzie came to spend a night with us at Coupeville. We enjoyed playing a hammock outside with Mckenzie. We like falling off the hammock and trying to claim back up.

Then Last Sunday we got to take a train from Edmonds to Seattle with Eric, Sean and Megan. We visited China town and had a great dim sum lunch. The waiting was too long but they said it worthed the wait. The we took a very long walk around town and then ended at the big Asian Store. It was a fun day but very tiring.

We had Spaggetti take out dinner with Aunt Zona and Uncle Bill the last day in Edmonds. We didn't want to leave them, but the trip has to go on.

June 3, 2010.
Today we are staying in KOA camp in Leavenworth, Washington. The cabin daddy rents is very nice and big with a kitchen. We have to provide our own bedding though. We're glad that we're not camping because it rains a lot. Yesterday it rained on and off, but we still visited a few places anyway. Down town Leavenworth is very nice. All decor up with German thyme. Daddy loves it. He took a lot of pictures for his book. We enjoyed the petting zoo and the aplets and cotles candy factory tour and testing in Cashmere, Washington.

Greeting from Eureka, California.

                                                       Anchalee, the younger twins at downtown Eureka
Hi all,

There 're so much to do and not much time to write.  It seems like we've been on the road so much and hardly have time to rest.  Thank goodness, today we had a little time off from the road.  We got to visit downtown Eureka, the ocean, the zoo and even had an afternoon at a nice warm indoor pool.  This pool is nice because it has a nice 1 foot depth area for little kids.  We enjoyed it a lot.  We had good a good Chinese buffet for lunch.  Tomorrow we'll be travel to redwood park to camp.  Hope we'll be able to take the cold.  Daddy said it'll be around 40's degrees at night.  We made it through at Disney World when it was around 40's, so we probably will get through this one.

                                                          Eureka harbor, California

                                                      The older twins, Suwan being shilly

Backtrack our trips from Florida to Texas

Egret grooming

Flamingo Amigo

Weeki Wachee Spring State Park, Crystal River, FL

April 2, 2010. Crystal River is a nice little town. We took a nice walk around the neighborhood. Daddy took us to see mermaid show at Weeki Wachee Spring State Park. It was amazingly fun! We took a boat tour in Spring water and saw some wild life animals.

At a park in Florida.

Manatee

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April 6, 2010 - Moving along a west coast of Florida and gulf of Mexico. We arrived at Port of St. Joe. It was not what daddy had expected. The town was very small. You will only find one and only grocery store there. What used to be a famous fishing town now has no fishing port left. I think that what daddy said. We had fun visit a beach in a state park though.

Suwan entertaining herself at a beach, Port St. Joe, Fl

Anchalee on a beach

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April 9, 2010 - Daddy and Mommy said they had the best Oyster in Carrabelle, Florida. We hated to leave Florida but we have many more things to look forward to. We're now entering Louisiana. It was strawberry season and we bought 3 boxes of strawberry of 3 bucks. They were really good. We visited Tabasco Factory and jungle garden. We saw many small gators in the pond in their natural environment. We also went to hot sauce festival and had many fun ride, but our most favorite one was a sac slide (?) where you slide down on top of a sac.

Everyone seemed enjoy cajun food including crawfish and all. Suwan surprised us with her big appetite for crawfish. Here people just pile the crawfish in a big tray and crack them all up at the table. It's sort of like eating blue crab I guess, except the banging part. Big Mess either way.

Visiting Center, Louisiana

Heritage Museum, Louisiana

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April 14 - Entering Texas passed Houston and El Paso. There were Beautiful wild flowers everywhere on highway- blue bonnet and Indian paint brush to name a few. We didn't recall much of Texas but most vividly about LBJ's ranch in Johnson City. The ranch was big and it was interesting to learn about LBJ and to see living farm. We enjoyed a gift shop in Johnson City because they had little shopping carts for us to push around. Mommy got some beef jerky and chili.

Downtown Houston, Texas

Roadside view, Texas

Hope you have fun with us while you here. We want you to see what we see as much possible. Next time we'll write about New Mexico. See you soon.

Greeting From Page, Arizona.

"Snow in April - 6000 feet up high in Navajo Nation, Window Rock, AZ. "

"Anchalee and Suwan at a Navajo Trading Post, Arizona"

We've been so busy traveling through different towns in past month and rarely had time to write. Part of it was from being so tired and another was from not having access to internet.

We are staying over one night at Lake Powell, Page, Arizona. We have pretty nice view of the lake, mountains and a golf course. We didn't quite get a good view of a sunset because of the cloud and a short period of sprinkle. It's almost freezing here at dinner time. We just had some snow last night when we were at Window Rock. We drove about 4 and a half hours to get to Page. It was really a nice drive. We got to see gradually changes in landscapes, from snowy pine mountains, silvery grass and stunted bushes in low plains to rocky mesas and reddish canyons. It was some fascinating journey.


Navajo Nation near Page, AZ

We would say we had pretty good day today. Lastly, we get to end our day with a nice warm bath and yummy Japanese food. Pretty cool ha.

Disney World's Fort Wilderness Camping Experience

It is time to say good bye to Disney World. We don't feel bad to live Disney World. In fact, we kept asking Daddy and Mommy when we will live for the hotel. Camping at Fort Wilderness at Disney World was fun. We spend 10 nights there and went through 2 big storms. We didn't really hear or feel any of it because we were so exhausted and slept through both storms. We spend most of our time visiting Magic Kingdom, twice at Epcot Center, once at Animal Kingdom and once at water park. We did't travel by car much around Disney. We usually took buses and boats When we wereat our camp we played out door all the time. There were birds, ducks, armadilloto who came around couple times. get to places. We rent a little cart that look like a golf cart for a day just to visit near by area around the camp. We went to a camp fire and watched Tinker Bell movie one night. We got to roasted some mashmellow for the second time.

About 2 nights ago, Suwan woke up and a middle of the night, sobbing with tear and saying that she would never have done that again. Mommy asked Suwan what she wouldn't do and Suwan told her that her mashmellow was burnt. It took Suwan awhile before she realized that was just a bad dream. What a nightmare!

We left Disney today for Crystal River which is on the west coast of Florida. It is only couple of hours drive from Disney. We walked around the neighborhood a little bit before dinner this evening. There are a lot of Manatee tours and fishing. We felt bad to hear on the news about a boy who got hit by a bus while riding his bike with his friend at fort Wilderness. The same camp we stayed and the same bus we rode. And then again, daddy said two monorails were crashed at Disney.

We hope you have fun looking at us having fun at Disney World. It was sure is a wonderful experiences for us. Thanks for visiting.

More Photos coming soon.

Visiting Alligator Zoo, St. Augustine, Florida

Today we visited Alligator Zoo. There're no word that we can describe better than these pictures. Hope you enjoy them.

The Oldest Town In the Country - St. Augustine, Florida

Daddy told us that St. Augustine is the oldest town in the country but some people believe Sante Fe, NM is. We don't really care which is the oldest but we enjoyed riding trollies around the old town a lot. Letting wind blew our faces was fun. We took a tour at one of the first boarding house, and other famouse Spanish houses. We also went to Fountain of Youth and drank little bit of fountain water. Suwan didn't want any, she got little nauseated due to motion sickness. It was a fun day but we sure walked a lot too. We all got so tired and felt asleep in a car on the way back to the hotel. In the evening, we walked across the street to see the beach. The sand is really white and very fine here, but shells are very tiny. We played on the beach for awhile then went to dinner. We ate cheese burgur and fried shrimp. Daddy had rib with a bowl of local clam chowder and mommy had jumbalaya. It was enough food for the next supper.

Until next time...

Suwan & Anchalee

Cabin at Myrtle Beach State Park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Staying in a cabin at Myrtle Beach State Park was very nice. We got to spend our time with nature. We took a hike and play at the beach, flying kites, building sand castles and collecting sea shells. There so much to do and we just want to play all day.

A View at Myrtle Beach State Park

My kite didn't want to fly

ta..da..how do you like our cabin?

We went downtown Myrtle beach to visit tourist shopping area and ate Japanese buffet for lunch. Daddy made a fire at night and we grill our own hot dog and mashmellow over the fire. Suwan didn't like here mashmallow because it was little black from burning. She preferred to eat it uncook.




Big Boot, down town Myrtle beach shopping palza

So long for now, we'll be back with more exciting news.

Suwan & Anchalee