555, It's funny. Trust me.

I was scolded at the market today.  I was getting fruit from “the grandmas” (that is what Kiddo’s former nanny Sa called them and it works for us) and they know us and know we are trying and learning.  So, when I got fruit and held out the cash for the purchase, she looked at me and said, “Say.”  Well, I couldn’t remember what 80 was in Thai.  I got a frown and a scold.  However, I did redeem myself.  In getting my change, she held up the coin.  

“SAY!”  

Song Sip Baht.  (20 Baht)

She handed me the coin with a smile under her mask.  “Good.”

I'm good with 50, which is what the total usually comes to, but we got some extra.  Normally it's Haa Sip Baht.  Haa (Ha, like a laugh) is 5 and Sip (See-P and that's a hard P; Seeeeep) is 10.  So, 5 tens baht.  Or 50.  HAHAHA, or maybe I should say, fivefivefive.

It’s nice, in a strange way, to know that someone is looking out for us and trying to help us help ourselves and advance.  Even if it’s only little things and in little ways.  

Kiddo is advanced beyond what J and I can do, but that’s thanks to Nanny Beer.  Listening to her and Kiddo chat and play and interact during their days together is super awesome.  It’s a mix of play, talking, imagination, and English and Thai.  Beer is learning as well, so it’s a weird sharing of language and words and this strange Beer/Kiddo mashup shorthand of sounds.

But they play all day or they adventure.

The other day, the adventure was to a butterfly area/cafe thing.  I can’t do it justice, in trying to retell what I learned, but the pics speak volumes.  

Beyond that, there is art.  Kiddo loves when she can do decorating or art or window drawings or whatever.  Her and Beer are readying the house for Valentine’s Day.  Most of the decorations are hearts or things like that.  However, the creation on Kiddo’s door…. Well, I know what I think it looks like.  J agreed with me about that.  Beer and Kiddo called it a love volcano.  And YUP!  That’s what it is.  HAHA