Sister and Brother

Having Fun
Originally uploaded by gbchiles2850.

Lily and Leland have been having a lot of fun together. They've had a couple of skirmishes (click on the picture to see what I mean), but overall they get along great. Lily loves to help with him, and has not seemed to mind losing her "only child" status so far. She brings him his drink, gives him snacks, plays ball with him, sings to him, and tickles him. She does NOT like it when he tries to take her toys or snacks from him. But she's still bigger than he is, so she can keep things out of his reach a little bit. She has done amazingly well on this trip. We weren't sure how she would handle the time change, new situations, and adding a member to the family, but she has done great on all accounts. I know God has answered our prayers that it would be an easy transition for her!

We've had breakfast at the hotel buffet every morning, which is pretty good. Homemade omelets, fruit, pastries, fried potatoes, yogurt, cereal, juice and coffee are what we tend to go for. Dad, the daring one, tried squid and sushi for breakfast yesterday. He said the squid tasted like squid. Yuk.

After breakfast we started to go for a walk to the park, but it started drizzling, so we hung out in our room. Gary and dad ventured out to the grocery store and McDonalds and brought us back our lunch. Then our guide took us to a department store that had a play area for kids, and Lily and Leland played for about 45 minutes. They had a great time! This picture took about 10 minutes to take because Leland is a wiggle worm and would crawl away the second we would sit him down!

We went to a stone carving gallery where there were beautiful stone and wood carvings, some that cost over $5 million.

We went to Pizza Hut for supper, and it tastes the same as at home. Delicious!

We spent the evening in our hotel room, and Leland's personality really started to show. He is so much fun! He started out sitting on my lap on the sofa, and would crawl down about a foot away, then crawl right back for a hug. He did this 15-20 times, then ventured a little further on the sofa, and would come right back. Eventually he would climb off the sofa and go a little farther, each time coming right back to me. It wasn't long before he was zooming all over the room, laughing, playing, falling over, hitting his head, smiling the whole time. He can crawl, pull himself up on furniture, and even likes to try to walk with us holding his hands! I was afraid it would hurt his feet, but it doesn't seem to bother him at all.

He is a tiny little guy. The 18 months clothes that I brought for him just hang on him. He's probably more 12 month size right now, but he will grow by leaps and bounds with lots of love and good food.