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Swimming in the Pool

Well it's been a long time since I've posted. The kids are growing up fast and time is flying by. This year, I have a new job (Technology Integration Specialist) at JIS, and I am finding that I am very busy and that the days are going by very quickly.

But we do have time to play with our kids every day. We've discovered that the playground at our elementary school is fabulous. They leave bins around with toys. So we cycle (that is until this morning when we discovered our two bicycles were stolen from our front porch) to school with the kids in the bike seats and we play in the playground. They love to play with all the toys designed for sand (sifters and sand wheels, shovels and pails). There are also lots of slides (bigger than the ones we have at home). Our kids are very brave and love to climb up high and slide down.

If we don't go to the playground, we go for a swim. The kids are getting to be very good swimmers. Tri has picked it up a little faster than Cai, but they're both progressing quickly. Below is a 4 minute video of the kids swimming, and jumping in the pool.

We filmed in high definition, but at the moment I'm not having much luck uploading HD to YouTube, so for now, it's just the regular quality.

Happy Mother's Day From Me Too!

Hi Mommy,
I helped make your book. I made the title of the book. I thought of the title and I helped Daddy write it too. I made a little video that you can watch!

Happy First Mother's Day

Happy mother's day, Mommy.  

Daddy, Tri and I are so happy that you are our mommy!  You always make me laugh, and cuddle me whenever Tri hurts me.

Tri and I thought that we could make you a book that you could read to us at night.  We both really like it when you read to us, but some of the books you have bought us are a little boring.  Lots of colours, and animals, but no real good storeis about babies from Vietnam.

So we thought we could make you a book about two little babbies from Vietnam.  Daddy and I looked through some photos and tried to make you a book.  Daddy got a little frustrated sometimes because the store he went to used old software (whatever that is).  He says that later we can all work together and make a much better book by not even going to the store.

Here are some pages that we printed that are in your book.

Tri says he is going to post a video of how he helped (he only printed the title page....I did all the work with the photos).

We hope you love the book mommy.  The book comes from our heart, not our wallet.  Daddy says that is the best (or cheapest) present one can give!

Ok, Last Set of Photos for Tonight

All right, I'm getting a handle on this Picasa upload stuff. Now I know what I'm doing. I'll just quickly give a description for each photo below.

Tri after his haircut

Cai waving as she cycles with Mommy down at Tanjung Lesung (Tri is on the front of the 2nd bike with our friend Eric).

Tri and Daddy on the beach at Tanjung Lesung

Cai, asleep on the bike.