Catching Up!

Whew....I think we're are now about up to date here! As I said before, it's been kind of a long, boring first week here. Rick worked all week and other than running to the grocery store on Monday and again on Friday, the kids and I didn't go anywhere that we couldn't walk to! We spent a lot of time at the park outside our house and WAY too much time playing Wii and Nintendo DS! However, things are picking up!

First of all, many of you know that when we proposed the idea of moving to Thailand to Caroline, her response was that it was a great idea and that when she got here, she'd be catching a millipede to have as her pet. She told us she'd just dig until she found one. Well, no digging was necessary! The little (really, kind of big) buggers are all over the place here! The kids routinely find them at the park here and are thrilled with them. Ewww! Here's a few pictures:

As you can see, the kids have been busy with bugs! This weekend we also went to ISB and got the kids fully enrolled, got uniforms, school supplies, etc. Tim and Caroline did GREAT on their assessments and both of them scored at the 5th grade reading level for reading - smart cookies! And Leah breezed through her assessments and was an easy shoo-in to kindergarten, even though she misses the cut off by a few weeks! I'll post more pictures after they have their first day of school on Wednesday, August 6th.

Finally, today I got a new set of wheels!!!! We do have a driver and a van that is available to use pretty much whenever. Our van is plenty big (seats 11) and very nice, as is the driver (he's not so big, but also nice! ;) ) But he spends most of his days driving Rick to work and hanging out there until it's time for Rick to come home, so it really is helpful if I have a way to get around our community, Nichada, when I don't have the driver. To that end, we are now the proud owners of a spiffy red golf cart! Check it out: OK, I see that you've already seen it at the top of this post...I can't figure out how to move pictures around very well in here, so we'll just leave it as is for now!

After all this that has brought you up to date, we are now looking at school starting this week (yay!), our air shipment arriving at the end of the week after about a 2 week delay....it was supposed to take one week to get here but clearly that isn't the case and the kids have been real troopers about entertaining themselves with only the stuff they brought on the plane with them, and moving into our house at the very end of the month...if our sea shipment isn't delayed, too! I'll be sure to keep posting, so check back soon! :)