Some Oldies, But Goodies!

I don't have any recent pictures to put up, but I went through some old ones and found these. 

They are all over a year old.

Pianica

WHAT IS A PIANICA???  Yes, that was our first question when we had to sign Truett up for it at school.  You see, there were several choices and Truett wanted soccer, of course, but that filled up too quick.  So, he got stuck with pianica.  This is a pianica . . . 

He spent a whole semester learning how to play that thing.  Boring?  Yes.  And he came away with playing 1 1 1 5 5 5 1 1 1 5 5 5 (for those of you who are musical, that's like playing C's and G's).  The older kids learned a few more notes, I guess.  Here's a video of his riveting performance.  Notice the hands of the teacher who is directing.  He's indicating if the kids should be playing the 1 or 5.

He's giving us a "thumbs up" to let us know he's ready!

 I think we need to work on his posture . . .

I wrote out the notes for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for him one day.  He's showing us that he has it, but promising that he's not going to play it in the middle of the recital!

Such concentration.

Look at his eyes on the director.  I know Grams is proud!

I also have a few last pictures to add on from Cambodia.  These tuk tuks are how we traveled around the city while we were there.  Pretty fun!

The kids were so exhausted after a fun filled day and an evening of trick or treating that they just couldn't stay awake any longer!!

At the Thailand Beach

These pictures are about a month old, but their still good ones.  We had a good few days at the beach in Thailand before we headed back to Indonesia from our meetings in Cambodia.

 Truett loved to jump over the waves.  I was quite ready to let him do that by himself, so I had a strong hold on his life jacket.  It was so much fun listening to his laughter when a wave would get him.

Paisley was so excited to get braids in her hair!

But this is how she looked before they started braiding her hair.

 At least she smiled when I asked her to.

But then she went back to looking like this for most of the time her hair was getting braided.

 She got a nice little arm and leg massage out of the deal.