Ava Grace Weathers

Announcing the Birth of:

Ava Grace Weathers

January 10, 2009

7lbs. 1 oz.

20.5 inches

Mom, Dad, Baby and Big Sister Chloe are all doing well.

Christmas in Bangkok

This year we are spending the holiday season in Bangkok awaiting the birth of baby #2. Despite it being 80degrees and no santa, we still had a wonderful Christmas meal at a local American restuarant complete with Fajitas for me, a burger for Jeff and Chicken tenders for Chloe. We were also able to spend some time with friends who live in another country who are also here expecting a baby any day.

Here are a few pics:

I'll post again when our new addition has arrived- any day now!

Happy Loy Krathong

Chloe would like to wish everyone a happy Loy Krathong.

Loy Krathong is a national holiday where everyone lights big balloons that float up into the air. There are lots of fireworks as well as candles that they light and float down the river in the evening.

The picture below is at the main city gate where hundreds of paper lanterns were strung across the square in celebration of Loy Krathong.

We decided to participate as well this year and sent off a few balloons of our own.

update

The last two months had been so quite that I didn't have anything to post on our blog.

Last week, Chloe was sick and we were in the hospital for a few days. Nothing really very serious she just has a problem with seizures when she has a fever. She had a fever last week and a seizure on the way to the doctor. She is fine, though. The fever was from a urinary tract infection but we had to stay in the hospital until her fever went away. That took four days!

We are home now and all is well. The doctor is going to run a test in a few weeks just to make sure she does not have any kidney or bladder problems that would have caused the infection. Remember Chloe during your quiet times that the tests are normal.

Also, in case I forgot to mention it earlier- we found out that we are having another girl! In December, we leave to go to a bigger city to have the baby. Our doctor thought it would be best to deliver in the larger city because of the complications that I had when Chloe was born. We will be there about a month and then return home for two months.

We plan on returning to the states in April.

See you all soon.

Family Time

I can't believe I haven't posted anything in two months. Chloe and I have been busy training for the 2012 Olympics. I'm looking at competing in the group synchronized swimming competition (since my belly is getting too big to do anything but sit in large pools of water) and Chloe is pretty sure she can secure a spot on the Chinese women's gymnastics team (since they're a little lax on the age restriction and all) and Jeff has been busy saving the world from earthquakes, floods and WMD's. In between all that we were thrilled to have some of our family come to visit.

Here are some fun pics from their adventure to the land of grass huts:


The place just wouldn't be the same without Ronald McDonald.


And of course, you have to visit the local markets.

And the beautiful waterfalls

And the elephants

And top it off with some Chocolate cake. This is from Chloe's birthday celebration. I gave her the entire cake and she thought I had lost my mind.

Vacation Pics

This year we were very blessed with a few visa problems (the stamp in our passport that allows us to stay in the country not credit card problems). Unfortunate for us, we just HAD to go to Australia to get our visa renewed in order to return legally to Thailand. So we decided to take a short plane ride over to New Zealand and spend a little vacation time there. I know it's a rough life, we're just making the best of it. :)

We began by spending some time in Brisbane to work on our visa. Then we spent a couple of hours on the beach where I ate the yummiest fajitas ever at a Hard Rock Cafe. We can't get fajitas in our city so I take any chance to eat them when we are away.



Then we flew to Christchurch, New Zealand and visited the international antartic center. Chloe and Jeff slid down the ice slide in the snow room.

We spent a week in this campervan driving around the south island (the place where the Lord of the Rings was filmed). Since New Zealand is in the Southern Hemisphere it is winter down there as their seasons are opposite ours.

It was quite beautiful

We rode a luge down one of the mountains. Chloe thought sitting on the sled was fun at first. But as her and Jeff headed downhill she no longer thought it was fun.

We saw a glacier. You can see a person in the very right-hand corner of the pic. That's how big the glacier really was.

As we approached the west side of the island, we spent a little more time on the beach.

You may not be aware that New Zealand has more sheep than people. The sign we saw as we were driving down the mountain road said "Stock 30 km/h." Of course, we didn't know what that meant until just happening upon this sight a little further down the road:

2nd verse same as the first

Good News!! We left last year as three and we just found out that we will come back next year as four. Our second baby is due Jan. 15. Hooray.

In other news: We will be traveling again the next two weeks. I spent most of today packing to appease the airlines strict luggage policies. I walked into our room and found Chloe had "helped" me unpack everything I just packed. Oh, well. At least she had fun throwing the clothes all over the bed.