Thursday, April 7, 2011

B.E. #9 river boat to the mall

After our date we went with our friends on the boat taxi to a huge mall (one that was burned down during all the riots awhile ago, but is back up and running and quite swank).



You kind of have to 'hop on' they only stop it for a second. And you cannot really call it a complete stop, with kids this is interesting...but doable.


We went to this place first, which was mainly for reading, great for kids six and up...we soon left and went to a play place..


We let Bella go up and down the slide by herself... Until she just would not 'sit down' first. We really have come to realize that she has an unhealthy sense of fear...she has NONE. We know her pain tolerance is high, but she will jump from things really high, not knowing how she could get hurt, we just happen to be there most of the time. She would stand at the top of the slide, not sit, and just tumble on down, and get up laughing...

Training her has been hard, and we need to really get on it now. She will literally run from us laughing when we tell her to 'come here.' Then after discipline, she will do it. But I still think she thinks it is all just a game. In our world of travel and busy airports and malls, we need our children to heed our voice well. Bella's 'happy go luckiness' is making this difficult. Though her cleverness is cute, It can be scary at times, and dangerous, so we are making a push to train hard and stay consistent...





Sophia had fun playing with this girl, though they could not communicate verbally...I told her in Thai that I could not speak Thai, and then guessed at what she was saying, and answered her in English: 'her name is sophia...she is three, etc.'