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1. How far and wide his love of batman is. Malcolm for some reason has decided that Batman is called ‘Yellow’. We’re not sure why, but it’s very clear when he yells Yellow, points his hand  and shoots his grappling hook (daddy has explained in painstaking detail what the grappling hook is) and then runsContinue reading “10 things Malcolm Learned on Vacation”

While we were in Laos we had to opportunity to ride elephants.  Randy and I had ridden elephants nearly 10 (!) years ago in Chang Mai and we were pretty excited to be able to experience this with the boys.  Unfortunately, Randy had to go to Bangkok a little early so it ended up beingContinue reading “Mae Buakham”

One of the things I love most about traveling is experiencing museums that give you such insight into a country. The national museum immediately reminded me of museums in Russia. It has that old socialist feel of Russia. The museum is two floors and the rooms are the size of a small bedroom. The museumContinue reading “U.S. Imperialists”

This vacation to Laos and Thailand Adam was suddenly very into photography and wanted to take pictures of EVERYTHING. We’re going to have to get him his own camera since every time he heaves up our heavy Nikon I’m terrified that he’s going to drop it! He managed to take some cute pictures of us.Continue reading “Through Adam's eyes”

Yes, vacation photos are coming….but in the meantime here is a super exciting post about chalk. Actually this is more a post about what to do in the Philippines with toddlers…is Adam still a toddler? what comes after toddler? kid?? tween??. There are very few green spaces in Manila and it is often hard onContinue reading “Chalk Fest 2015”

Did I tell you all that the lovely Kate had her second baby. And it was a girl, Audrey!! I’m so happy for her and also happy that we’ll have some girliness when we take our brood on vacation. I gave her 7 weeks post birth and then decided I needed to go meet thisContinue reading “Audrey & George”

Last week was picture day for the boys.  We broke out the button down shirts and after a small bribe got them on the boys. Since the boys looked so handsome we decided to take some pictures before we left for school. Of course best laid plans….it took about 20 minutes and right when IContinue reading “Picture day”

Last week the boys had a field trip to…the Farm. Before you roll your eyes there were two new bits about this trip (and yes I say that every time)- it was Malcolm’s first field trip and Malcolm’s first time on a big horse! I love going on field trips with Adam and now withContinue reading “Back Again”

When Randy joined USAID we spend a year in DC training and we met some wonderful lawyers that joined with him. One of those lawyers Brian came to visit us from Pakistan. Randy and Brian decided to take a trip up north to the rice terraces, Banaue and to the hanging coffins in Segada.  Randy’sContinue reading “Guys trip up north”