Lets Go Kiddo

Today I’ve got some pics of Kiddo being Kiddo.  Kind of a 2ish year retrospective.  Partly to post one or a few cute Kiddo pics, but also because I don’t have any current pics and I wanted to talk about Kiddo for a few minutes today. Previously, I talked about Kiddo and night time.  She gets up.  Some nights, like last night, she gets up to use the toilet and deliver any love mail we might have.  Love mail is Kiddo mail to J and myself.  She will draw us pictures at night.  At first, these pictures were hard to make out, but upon enquiry, we found that was because they were being drawn in the dark.  Well, now that Kiddo can tell time better, we found an arrangement that works for her.   See, she has some story podcasts that she likes.  Little stories or adventures that are made for kids.  She gets to listen to 3 of these a night, but since they are anywhere from 8 minutes (for the shortest ones) to up to about 20 minutes (the lo...

I mentioned in the last post that J was doing grad school this year and we’ve gotten some comments and questions on that.  I wanted to take a minute to address that quickly.   J and I have been talking a lot over the summer.  About us and Kiddo and where and what’s next and all that.  We decided that we like the expat life and will keep at it for a while yet.  This can be better accomplished and we can make more money and have more opportunities if J had a grad degree.  So, she found a self paced program that will, at completion, earn J a Master’s Degree in International School Leadership.  It’s a cool thing and will check boxes for admin or higher tier schools and just gives us flexibility in where and when and all that.  Also, leadership… That can lead to Admin or some type of dean, grade level head, class lead or stuff like that.  Besides, she’s a natural at that type of stuff and likes being in those positions, so it’s a good and natura...

A few Kiddoisms to start our day. First was from the car ride back from the airport after the Vietnam trip.  I couldn’t find a good place for it in the blog about Vietnam, so I’ll share it here.  I want to be a pilot.  I like to fly and I like telling people where to go. J and I both lost it and saved the quote.  Been sitting on it for a month now.  LOL Also, in LA for a few days before moving to BKK and Kiddo had (as we call it now) the LA Pigeon Incident.  Since then, she has HATED Pigeons.  Yesterday, her and J went to the library and ramen lunch.  I got this pic from J. We have to hurry outside… pigeon duty calls! She is too much. She’s been doing so much growing up this summer.  On top of Vietnam and doing international travel at 6 years old, she’s pushed herself this summer to do new things and accept the Mythical Yet.  She can’t read a whole book… yet.  She can’t ride a two wheel bike… yet.  She can’t rollerbla...