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.