My Cute Baby Twin Girls

Twins flying kites at preschool

2011-03-15T20:15:00.000-07:00

I dropped the girls off at school just minutes before nine this morning and headed right back home to work on my new SBI site. The time just zipped right by and I didn't even get a chance to take Chai for a walk. It was 11:15 am, I needed to get some gas first before it ran out. I stopped at 7-11 on my way to get gas. The regular price was $3.59. I filled up half of a tank and ran in the store to pick up some milk and bread. It was like a zoo inside 7-11 this morning. The store were packed with quality control people pulling and check things out of shelves while scribble something on clipboards. Then I realized I didn't have any lunch ready for the girls yet, so I picked up couple slices of pizza and 3 rolls of burritos.

Actually I got to school 20 minutes before noon. I spotted preschoolers running in the field and some were flying kites outside the building. Suwan and Anchalee were trying really hard to send one kite up in the air while their boy classmate kept running and trying to fly the kite. No success there.

Talked to the teacher and she told me Anchalee was a good kite runner. She got a kite up in the air!
So it was a good day for the twins to get to see the effect of the wind on the kite which is what they are learning this week - wind and transportation. The weather was not so bad, little cold but once the sun came out it was good.

The twin girls are not really enjoy their class and classmates. "These girls have the best imagination", one of the teacher said to me one day. The teacher thought that their drawing and school works are more advance than most students their ages. I rarely buy them any toys these days. We create a lot of paper crafts and made a lot of characters out of felt and fabric. I think this is one reason why they're good at drawing and making thing up.

Twin Girls, Suwan & Anchalee at Mt. Rushmore.

2011-03-01T07:53:00.000-08:00

Twin Girls, Suwan & Anchalee posting at Mt. Rushmore

There is not a whole lot happening lately beside usual routine of getting the twins up in the morning and get them ready for morning school. I thought it would be fun just to go through some of photos of the girls during our cross country trips. This picture really shows the differences between the twins' height. Everywhere we go people often think our twin girls are a year apart. Suwan, my older twin is about 3.5 inches longer than Anchalee, the one minute younger twins. This morning before we went to school I weight them both. Suwan weighs 44 lbs and Anchalee weighs 40.5. So the little twins is catching up to the sister closely now.

Valentine Cards for Friends

2011-02-13T20:19:00.000-08:00

Imagine supervising two four years-old kids to make 16 Valentine cards for their classmates. That's how I spent my weekend with the twins. I think Suwan and Anchalee had a lot of fun and sometimes got carry away on decorating the cards. They would draw on top of stickers with black marker and that made me nervous. I got upset when Anchalee wrote letter to big and wouldn't fit a word on one line. I wasn't happy when Suwan borrowed Anchalee's weenie dog to put on her card because I was afraid there wouldn't be enough left for Anchalee. It turned out okay because Anchalee took some of Suwan's stuff too. I got too emotion trying to get things done the way I wanted and didn't let the girls had all the fun. I felt somewhat sorry later on. The girls did well though. The got to be pretty creative with the letters and drawing. It turned out pretty cute. Finally, the work was done. The twins did all the writing on the card and check off the name lists. Now the Valentine Cards are ready for their preschool friends. Whew! I'm sure glad it's over. Thanks goodness, the girls got more patience than me and they didn't care if the works weren't perfect!

Twin Baby Photobook by Shutterfly.com

2010-12-25T06:39:00.000-08:00

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.

Click here to view this photo book larger

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

2010-11-28T05:33:00.000-08:00

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

2010-11-26T05:56:00.000-08:00

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

2010-11-04T08:08:00.000-07:00

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

2010-11-03T18:17:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-14T15:20:00.000-07:00

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

2010-06-17T21:10:00.000-07:00

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

2010-06-15T19:53:00.000-07:00

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

2010-06-03T07:41:00.000-07:00

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.

2010-05-01T23:16:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-22T21:31:00.000-07:00

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.

2010-04-22T20:22:00.000-07:00

"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

2010-04-01T21:07:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-20T20:10:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-20T19:32:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-17T18:38:00.000-07:00

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

Greeting From North Carolina

2010-03-13T04:02:00.000-08:00

At Aquarium, NC

At a rest stop, NC

Greeting friends and family ! from Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. We made it trough 2 nights on this trip so far. Yesterday, daddy drove up north on I70 for about 15 minutes before he realized that he went the wrong way. Mommy was busing playing with her phone and not helping. We're staying in a cute cottage which over looks the Atlantic Ocean on the Isle called Bouge Bank. It was raining on and off yesterday but we were able to go out and enjoy the beach for awhile. We visited Aquarium and saw so many fish and sharks. It was very excited. We went to Seafood Buffet for dinner. It was the first day the restaurant was operated for this season.

Today we are going to St. Patrick Festival and we'll let you know how it goes. Bye for now.

Trips from the past few years with Mom and Dad

2010-02-28T19:32:00.000-08:00

These are collection of photos of our trips that we took with mom and dad.

Mix photos slide show

2010-02-27T20:33:00.000-08:00

Bike Day

2010-01-19T18:24:00.000-08:00

Sometime, it is worth it to complain about the weather. We glad we did because we've been having a mild winter in the past 3 days. We went to a nearby park to ride our bikes. It was so fun and we want to do some more biking.

Today, we took a little walk to a near by railroad to look out for trains. We saw 3 trains passed by. One of them honk the horn to us when the driver saw us waving our hands. We were so happy and excited.

Happy New Year 2010!

2010-01-14T19:44:00.000-08:00

At National Zoo in Summer

Indoor Play Area at a Mall

Meet with friend on Wednesday

Just goofing off in am

Built a snow girl in front of our house

We wish everyone a very happy new year 2010 and many more happy years to come. We're sure that everyone have been very busy during this holidays. Lots of shopping, lots of food and family get together and so forth. As many of you know we'd been hit by a gigantic snow storm of the century. It was the biggest storm we'd ever seen. This gave us such great experience of practicing snow ball throwing, snowman building, and downhill sledding. It was a lot of fun and a lot of cold. After the snow storm, we've been getting really freezing cold weather non stop. It seems to be a cold spell all over the country. All we've been doing is staying indoor. We still go shopping, visit with our play group on Wednesday and go to library on Thursday to listen to story and do a little dance.

The two of us seem to get along pretty good. We spend all the time together doing things people our age suppose to do - messing up the house, driving daddy crazy and bugging mommy all day.

We had a fun visit with our brother, Eric. He was lucky to leave us just before our hot water heater was broken, the kitchen wall was half torn apart from water pipe bursting, and ...many other things that were also needed fixing. We need not to mention to you any more or else you might never come to see us again because our house is falling down.

Good News, though. Every broken thing now seem to be fixed. We're now so ready for more guests.

Congratulation to our cousin Laura and her husband on the birth of little Zona (we were told by uncle Bill) We just can't wait to see her face to face. Pretty soon we'll be there!

Our families in Thailand are doing well. Our cousin, Oak is now 4 and he loves attending his school. He can't stand having a day off even since his daddy mentioned that he might end up being a garbage collector. Good going uncle O.

We miss you and hope to see you all soon.
Suwan & Anchalee

Out for Trick-or-Treat

2009-11-07T08:38:00.000-08:00

It was first Halloween that we went out for trick-or-treat. There weren't that many trick or treaters in our neighborhood though. Anchalee wore Tinker Bell outfit with spiderweb on her dress, Suwan wore a princess dress and mummy wore a Chinese outfit. Daddy didn't dress up, but he had fun watching us.

Anchalee was a great trick or treater. She wasn't shy like Suwan.

We're all doing well here and can't wait to see everyone on our next Spring trip.

Later,
Suwan & Anchalee

First Week At Nursery School

2009-09-18T12:59:00.000-07:00

We just finished our first week of school! We like it so much that we didn't want to come home. We both cried after got in the van with mummy. The teacher said we won't be study a lot yet. For now we just play, read book and snack. They so many things to play and lots of friends to social with and we feel that 2 and a half hours period isn't long enough.
The school is very nice. It is located in a church. We have our own room to do basically everything from playing, art and craft activities, snacking and reading. There is a little sink in the back of classroom to watch our hand. There are two little toilets across the hall. There are also little cots for some sleepy head as well.
We did just fine without mummy. There will be times that she help the teacher out in the classroom bringing us snack and all.
Well, hope everyone is doing great. Can't wait to see you on our cross country trip next year. All of us here are very excited about Laura's little girl. We're pretty sure that mum will knit her something cute.

Later,
Suwan & Anchalee

Photos from Dutch Wonderland, Pennsylvania

2009-09-01T13:01:00.000-07:00

We took a trip to PA awhile ago and stay at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Daddy and Mummy took us there to visit the Dutch Wonderland, a great amusement park for kids as young as us. We got to take many rides for the first time and we had a great fun!

Who's the artist?

2009-07-12T20:51:00.001-07:00

Look out people, here come the young and talented toddler artist!

"A Mommy Ghost and A Baby Bhost" by Anchalee

Playing with bubbles

2009-05-23T20:02:00.000-07:00

We thought it would be fun to share this video with you. Just make a hot day feels little more fun. It was a hot day so we took a dip in a little pool. Once we got cool off we just had a blast with bubbles.

Bye bye,
Suwan and Anchalee.

Our 3rd Birthday Party.

2009-05-20T10:57:00.000-07:00

We just had a little party for our 3rd birthday! Here are some pictures we'd like to share with you. Our friend Sandy and Forrest made the cutest caterpillar cake for us.
Daddy made BBQ kabob and mommy just relaxed and drank wine after we drove her crazy all morning!

The next day we visit our doctor for 3 years check up. Suwan is about 3 inches taller than Anchalee and 4 lbs heavier. Mommy said now it's time for Anchalee to quite drinking her milk and Suwan quiting pacifier. That's going to be really hard for us but I guess we just can't keep doing it forever.

Good News! Anchalee is on her way to a potty training graduation! She has been doing such a great job for weeks now. Suwan is coming along pretty good.

Hope to hear from you soon,
bye,
suwan & anchalee

Remix Photos from different places (April 12, 2009)

2009-04-29T20:17:00.000-07:00

Hi, here are some more photos of us.
Thank for stopping by again.
Suwan & Anchalee

Slide show of pictures from different places (2009)

2009-04-29T13:10:00.000-07:00

Click on the picture to watch slide show.

Thai New Year 2552

2009-04-19T12:10:00.000-07:00

On Easter Sunday we visited Thai temple in Wheaton, Maryland to celebrate Thai New Year instead of decorating Easter egg. It was a fun day since we had to ride on trains and buses. It was a cold morning and wet too. There was a huge crowd of people everywhere. A lot of people were there to eat yummy Thai foods, to pay respect to monks and Buddha image or to be blessed by the head monk, some to see dancing, some to shop and some to do everything. For us we did just about everything mentioned above. Mommy and daddy took us inside the temple to visit with the head monk who will turn 83 shortly. We paid respect to the Buddha and waited for quite sometime in a long line for blessing. Mommy told the monk that we hadn't been to the temple since birth and needed to be blessed for good luck like many thai new borns. So, the monk said something in Bali-Sansakrit that we didn't understand. He tied little sacret strings around our wrists for good luck. He said that Anchalee was quite delightful and perky while Suwan was quiet and shy.
We ate lunch, watch some Miss New Year show and bought some plants and food home. All in all it was a good day!
We have some photos but they're still in the phone. If you like to see beautiful pictures of Thai dancing and kids playing Thai instruments, you can go to http://watthaidc.org

Later Alligator,
Suwan & Anchalee

Good time with our big sister and our niece

2009-04-14T05:40:00.000-07:00

We had a great visit from our big sister Clara and our niece Mckenzie. We visited Washington DC during Cherry Blossom Festival together. It was so windy that we thought we could get blown away. The Merchants had to hold on to their stands and tent poles so that they wouldn't fall down. One lady told us to stay away from her tent because it felt on a byby's stroller. Mommy's hat kept fallen off and she had to give up wearing it. We also went to Sandy Beach State Park and played with sand on perfect Sunny afternoon. Mckenzie dug a hugh hole and found misterious pieces of wood. After the beach, we played at a playground and after that we headed for yummy Blue crabs for dinner by the bay. Both of us felt asleep right on our chairs after we ate.

We enjoyed playing dress up games and cooking games on computer with our niece. We really like Mckenzie, we think she's so cool and dresses so well. Chai thinks so too. Our big sister, Clara cooked us Ruby Chicken which we had for the first time and we loved it.

All of these happened so fast and we didn't want Clara and Mckenzie to leave so soon. We just had so much fun with them. Now we just wait and see if someone else would come to visit us next!
See you soon,
Suwan & Anchalee

Visiting College Park Nursery School

2009-03-07T12:29:00.000-08:00

Today, we signed up for a class at a co-op nursery school which is not very far from our house. If everything turns out right, we'll begin a class in Fall after we turn 3. Then we'll be going to school on Tuesday and Thursday mornings and play day on Wednesday. We like the school a lot. We met with our future teacher and got to check out the classroom. We saw all the fun things in that classroom - puzzles, paints, toys, kitchen with china set, all sorts of books and lots more stuffs that we missed. We met a lot for new friends at school's playground as well. Suwan said she wanted to be at school all day cause she liked it so much and so did Anchalee.

So, there is another six months to go before we start school. We're really excited!

The weather was real nice today. We ate lunch out side in the back porch. Daddy made cheeseburger for us. March is a very crazy month, isn't it. Three days ago we had snow and tomorrow will be in 70's.

Hope everyone has a nice day, we'll be back soon.
Suwan & Anchalee

Play Day At Play Group

2009-02-18T18:41:00.000-08:00

We had snow this morning but then it turned into mushy mess. Mommy took us to a play group in a van. We met indoor in one of the rooms that the church in our neighborhood. The church allows us to use the room every Wednesday for our playgroup.

We packed a big bag full of picnic lunch and planned to have it with our friend and his mom. There were a new mom and a new baby which we had not meet before. There was also a mom who used to come to the group long time ago but stopped coming. Today, she brought her 2 yrs. old son with her.

We played mostly with each other, but today we had more interaction with Aaron, who is the only closest friend we have right now. He come to play at our house several times. In fact, we invited him and his family to dinner this Saturday.

Our picnic lunch was good we had ham sandwich with cheese, cantaloupe, carrot, raisin bread, salad and some juice. After lunch we played some more. We ran, we rode on a shopping card, played soccer, played cooking, made phone calls to daddy, built blocks and so forth.

We got home exhausted and took a good long nap with mommy.
So, it was not bad for a cold and snowy day after all. It was a great day!
Miss you all,
Suwan & Anchalee

Happy New Year.

2009-01-30T15:36:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year everyone! Just in time for Chinese New Year! As you can tell, we're moving to a new blog. Hopefully, this one will make it easier to navigate the site. We haven't update our blog for awhile, but don't worry you didn't miss much. Everyone here is doing pretty good besides having had a minor cold once in awhile. Suwan just got over one a week ago.
We just had some snow fall here couple of days ago and it turned into ice the day after. We were out in the back porch cracking up the ice in the past 2 days. We enjoyed it though (you probably can tell from our video). We just added some more videos to our collection, so don't forget to check them out.
Maybe, it'll be easier if we just put some new videos here.

"Playing with snow in the back yard"

"Eating Breakfast"

"Playing with snow again"

Thank you for stopping by, We'll be back again soon.
Suwan & Anchalee