Lets Go Kiddo

Last night was a night.  Oh, the joys of parenthood.  The day was weird and we had all slept weird the night before, so that was part of it.  Also, J and I had made plans with Nanny Beer to stay late and eat with Kiddo.  We had plans to go to the hospital and do a well check that is needed for our China Visa.  Thankfully, Kiddo doesn’t need to be part of this.  We (J and I) went and found out that 16:00 was the cut off for being seen.  The thing is, J is contracted until 17:00 (or 16:45, something like that) and so she asked permission to leave early and was told she could leave 16:30.  We went and boomeranged home.  Canceled with Beer and she was fine with that, but we still took Kiddo to Plurn Dee for dinner. After that, the fun started.  First, though, some background will help. Kiddo goes to bed 20:00.  It’s a bit early, I agree, but she’s also more of a morning person (like J) and even if we let her sleep in, she’s up 07:00...

Every night, Kiddo has some mumma time and some dada time.  She has her little things that she enjoys with each of us.  Her and I will video game sometimes, if she’s in the mood to game.  Sometimes she just is into my game and wants to watch.  Sometimes we play Uno or Connect4.  Stuff like that.  We just hang.  Chat.  Spend time together. Last night, it was her Dada Time and she asked if she could read to me.  However, she had a book in mind. Her book! Unprompted by me and the topic of yesterday’s blog, she asked.  She also popped up at one point and ran into the other room and grabbed my phone so she could “read for the blog people too.” So, without further ado……

Saturday evening, we headed out with plans to get dinner and then see Kung Fu Panda 4 which just started playing here this last Friday.  I checked online for showtimes on Friday and there was a Saturday showing English with Thai subs at 18:00.  Perfect for lil miss.  Walk to eat, walk to cinema, watch movie and be pumped, walk home as she regales us with recaps and Kiddoisms plus any new ninja moves learned/invented while watching, and then to bed and sleep like the dead. The best laid plans….. We were walking past the cinema on the way to dinner and we popped in to get tickets.  Nothing at 18:00 (6pm) for KFP4 in English.  Seems that due to the popularity of the film, they moved some of the times around for more Thai language showings.  Bummer, but we can do a movie next weekend and, I learned, after 11:00 on Friday, they have the weekend show times set.  Friday I can walk over and buy tickets for the Saturday show time we want and done.  Bi...

Kiddo is in a phase right now.  She has adopted a zero sum policy when it comes to love.  I posted something in the past (link for reminder) about J housesitting for some people while in college and how the dog, Souska, would always try to nose into the middle when J and I hugged.  Kiddo has that spirit and doesn’t like when J and I hug.  We always hear, “No love for meeee????” Hugging has become a thing. The other night J sent Kiddo to her room to get a hair tie before dinner and when Kiddo scampered off to get that, J and I took a second to have a hug and hello after the day.  J was just home from work, Nanny Beer just left, I was cooking, so we had a hug.  From Kiddo’s room we hear, “You aren’t hugging without me, are you?” We’ve explained that we can hug and it just means we love each other.  Kiddo will always retort, “But no love for meeeee?”  We try to explain that just because we (J and I) love each other, that doesn’t mean we don’t a...

Kiddo is amazing.  She’s so different than she was when we landed in BKK and yet, very much the same.  I think back to our first months here and trying to get her to walk somewhere, especially in the heat and humidity, was sometimes a challenge.  A few weeks ago, her and I were on our own for the night and we were going to try Burger King since McDs at the mall closed.  That would mean a cab ride to The Bright.  It’s 2ish KM away and across the highway, so it’s definitely a cab ride.  However, to break that up, I took her to Decathlon first.  It’s a sporting goods/camping/physical fitness type store.  We could run around and she could burn off some energy.  Also, it would break the cab ride in halves.   Upon running, jumping, trying out the tents, looking at baseball gear, seeing how good she can bounce and dribble, etc etc etc, we headed out and I tried to book a car.  That was easy enough, but it was a 15 minute wait on the car....