Orchids

Oh, and by the way, we have orchids in our front yard :) Seems like anything and everything will grown here without much effort!

Reunion

Here's a couple pictures from Amy's family reunion in Missouri this July 4th weekend.

First day of school and more!

Kind of a random collection of shots - as you can see Kai is fitting in well at school - the first week was tough but now when we go to pick him up he doesn't want to leave! He's a bit older than the rest of the kids in his class - I suspect he likes being the leader of the group. Baby seems to like going to school too :) At home the two are getting along much better than before - Kai is really enjoying have her to wrestle with, and to play in the water outside which they can do every day since it is hot hot hot here. Actually we're in the rainy season right now, so the monsoon clouds come in around 3 every day and we get about 30 minutes of rain which cools things down. "Cool" being a relative term - going from 95 with 100% humidity to 90 feels like you've stepped into AC!

PhnomPenh

Hi all - obviously we're sorry that the updates have been slow in coming. I looked the date of the last post and saw it was the end of May - it's amazing how long it takes to pack up, move halfway across the world, get Internet, etc. - in any case, although most of our stuff is still on a boat heading for singapore we do have enough to start adding pictures to the site again. So far PP has been great - lots of stuff for little kids to do including restaurants with huge play areas, sand boxes and so forth. Seems like everyone has at least one child under 5 here which has been great for Kai and Eva. The former has also started school which he enjoys, at least for an hour or so - then he just wants mommy. It's only been a week now, we'll give it some more time before posting Mom there permanantly :) Here's some of our pictures - we'll have more as soon as I can kick Kai off the computer! The one of me is at a local Islamic NGO that trains both Khmer and Cham (Khmer Islam) how to sew - as in for garment factories - a pretty good job here. The others are of the kids "helping" to wash my moto - our main form of transportation here. Needless to say we get quite a few looks on our way to work with Amy all dressed up riding side saddle in the back :)