Whole Bunch of Pictures

A couple weeks ago we hired another photographer to take pictures of our family.  Fortunately this one was good.  I am sure he took a few awkward pictures here and there, but at least he knew enough to delete them before giving us the disk.  I hope to use him again.  

Without a doubt this guy beats the photographer who took this jewel of a family photo a couple months ago…looks like one taken by a high school kid in the mall.

So, basically here are a bunch of pictures of my family.

Passcode

I have recently added a passcode to unlock my phone.  It is a bit annoying, but after AB took 32 up-close pictures of my sheets, I thought it was time.  She has also taken some very interesting videos of our family and of the floor.  These are the highlights of her picture taking skills.  

Pictures by AB

Unfortunately DB figured out how to get to the camera on my phone as well.  I knew this picture was taken by him since those are his favorite house shoes at the bottom of the picture.  

He took the following pictures while we were on high speed train returning home from the capital...he was supposed to be watching Mickey Mouse on my phone.  

Kids

Here are a bunch of pictures I have been meaning to post for months.  All of these pictures are from before #3 made his grand appearance. 

Although we were not in the country for Easter, our group celebrated once we all able to get together.  Here are my two kids in their finery.  

One day AB said, "look mom I wrote my name." Wow she did.  I had not even tried to show her how to write it yet. Basically she wrote her name exactly how I painted it to hang on her wall. She even curlie-q-ed the "i." Way to go big girl!

This is in Chaing Mai way back when we went there the first time this year.

We had some swim trunk issues and will probably continue to have them until DB grows a bigger hinnie.  

This picture falls into the ironic category.  We are standing in front of a tasty restaurant called Element Fresh that is in the same city block as a huge dirty smoke stack. 

Just an average Ikea trip. Here we are waiting in line to ship all of our stuff home.  

Like father like son in their mock turtleneck zip-up jackets.

DB was once terrified of this football player dress-up costume - do not ask me why.  However thankfully one day he decided it was not scary anymore.  

KB: Hey kids! Make a bridge for the train with your legs.  (AB got the idea.  DB not so much)

For my birthday KB bought me my favorite flowers.  I read online that although it can be tricky, you can start a new hydrangea plant with a cutting...

...so I tried, sort of and was very unsuccessful since I did it all wrong.  However AB decided if mommy can stick sticks in the potted tree, why not also stick something in there too - note the paintbrush.  

This is in Bangkok while we were there to deliver RB.  This was exactly one week before RB was born, and thanks to the long hot walk to the pool it was almost the day he was born.