Time to sleep train

Nik's mom left for Portland this past Saturday and will be staying up there for the next two months, so now we're back to cobbling together childcare with my parents and our brothers. I think we'll manage through the summer, but we're certainly going to miss Grandma Udom while she's gone.

Matthew helping us one day..

.. Chris the next..

.. and then, my parents and Matthew.

Though while she's gone, we have an extra bedroom again, so it's time to work on sleep training Sora.. because right now, this is what a lot of our nights look like:

We had a fun time this past Fourth of July. We went to Emma Prusch Farm for the church celebration. They had chickens freely roaming around the park grounds and a pig and goats for the kids to see. Kai enjoyed chasing around the chickens and they had a face painter on site. Kai requested a "Kung Fu Panda" and although he was a bit apprehensive about getting painted at first, once he started, he wanted to keep going and ended up with two pandas, a frog and a football.

"Check this out!"

Addicted to ink

Harsha stayed over with us during the holiday weekend and although we didn't go out to see any big fireworks show, we did play with some sparklers in the backyard once the kids were asleep (we'll wait until they're bigger to play with them).

Harsha's attempt at light writing "Udompanyanan" :)

Kai loves playing with the camera and he actually took a pretty epic picture of Sora the other day. Although I'm pretty sure it was just a fluke, because the next shot was of Sora's thigh.

But since Kai loves playing with the camera, we acquired an old digital camera from my parents.

Kai likes to "help" around the house these days.. we've found a couple of ants randomly wandering around the house and when Kai sees them he likes to pick them up and throw them out of the house, saying, "Kai-Kai throw ant!" He also helps bring in the garbage cans.

Kai continues to figure out novel and fun ways to do things and play.

Why use one spoon when you can use two?

"Hiding" with papa

Kai and Sora are becoming good friends. Sora is starting to develop a sense of humor and no one makes her laugh quite like Kai-Kai. Kai also loves serenading his sister and sings "Wheels on the Bus" to her.. he even sings her to sleep, singing "Baa Baa Sheep" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" (aka the "star song").