how short is my height- singing da song How deep is ur love.Kakaa

Hic hic, feel so saddd... I didnt know i look so short till i see this pictures. I just higher than my niece Chip 9 year old a lillbit... but I love that for sure Chip will be alot taller than her aunt Thao..;))

Must be allergy

...So, after a week or 10 days or something with a lot of cream that we bought from the pharmacy and with lot of poison to kill ants because we thought it was all ants or mosquitoes that bit Kyle like the pic we showed. But now it seems we totally wrong. Kyle has allergies.

He was always complaining that it was ants or mosquitoes that bit him while he was sleeping but why strange that I also sleep on the bed too but I'm always fine? I told him so many times that it can't be ants or mosquitoes... and u know what he says? *I'm sweet so they just bite me*, hahaaa...

For sure he is allergic now, but we don't know exactly yet what gives him allergies. We are trying so hard to notice what are the new things we buy these day like food/drink, or anything new....

1, Maybe coz of the kill ants/mosquito spray??? Every night before we go to bed he sprays it in the bedroom even we know that smell is not good for sleeping... But seems can't be right? Coz he already started to have some bumps before we bought it. Anyway we never use it anymore.
2, Maybe coz of the ant poison food we bought and put around on the ground??? I don't know if it is that, but at as long as we just think it must be one of the reasons Me and KYLE very quick go to clean up house at 11 pm and try to mop very carefully where we had put ant poison....:(( hehee.
3, Or maybe the new energy drink called *Sting*??? I don't know either but he stopped drinking it now.
4, One thing we still keep thinking it must be the reason is the laundry fabric softener... Coz of last few day we find out that as soon as Kyle wears new clothes he will get new bump, exactly the same bumps on his back, legs and shoulder... We think it must be softener soap but not really coz we started that soap long time ago and it was always fine...
5, The last reason is must be in the air has something that gives Kyle allergies....
6, ONE more the most right reason make him allergy that i think is the weather is too hot in summer in VN and makes my Kyle get that sick....

Anyway, we still don't know what reason makes Kyle allergic but these days he always stays naked, he wears nothing 24/7... It's funny when I see him run around like that in the house but better he must stay away from clothes... coz i can see the new bumps don't come much since he wears nothing... Hahaa...Its work. So from now he also can't go out...:)) , hehee.. And something funny that, sometime when i cook something i always open the front door but he doesn't notice that... and just walks around naked while outside there are always some girls waiting for elevator there... Hahaha....

Anyway, Kyle still takes allergy medicine and puts cream everyday, he is getting better... Anyway good that it is not AH1N1...;)) Until yesterday 8 people in VN have this virus, most of them come from US and Australia

Chip visits for world childrens day - June 1

Outside of Lenin park, the biggest park in Hanoi




Of course, the first thing we had to do was to buy some ice cream!




Many vendors were selling beautiful roses made of clay




It was a hot day, too bad we could not go swimming here!













Time for Chip to play on the playground, while we watch in the shade
















For lunch we had Bun Cha




Now it is time to go to the Ali Babba circus show!



















What I hate most in the world is monkies dressed up in human clothes... They look like cute little children, only with sharp claws and fangs. Watch out!!






















After the show we went out for some more ice cream










What visit to Hanoi would be complete without going to Hoan Kiem lake?






































World children's day at our apartment. Downstairs the kids watched a show and music










Something you can't get in Ba Vi: KFC!




Near to our apartment is the Ba Vi store where they sell milk. We had to show Chip that her hometown was famous!

Attack of the killer ants!

Lately we are having a big problem with red ants in our house... So many times we found that if we left any food or drinks out, we would come back and it would be covered in ants. And after trying several different containers for the sugar that somehow weren't ant-proof, we now keep the sugar in the fridge. And yes, now we saw some ants come in the fridge, but at least it seems to be too cold for them!

Anyways, a few days ago I got up and saw a long trail of ants. So of course I killed like fifty of them with my fingers, but somehow then I got busy and forgot to wash my hands... Uh oh!!




This is what happened to my shoulder when I scratched it with ant poison on my fingers. It is a huge gash about 10cm long. When it first appeared, there was a white raised scratch mark about 1cm wide, surrounded by red. Now that it has been two days, it is starting to look better (can't you tell?? :P)




I also scratched my belly after killing those pesky ants. Ooops! It looks like I got attacked by a bear or something, but no, just tiny ants...







The ants must have put a bounty out for me after the previous day's massacre, because yesterday after lying down on the couch, I got up and saw an ant crawling on my arm. Wait a minute.... why is my back so itchy now? ... let's look in the mirror.... OH MY GOD!!!

Ok, no more mister nice guy!!!! We finally went out and bought some ant poison to spread around the house. And of course some much needed bite medicine for me :(

Thao says it must be from the hot weather. So now we moved the computer into the bedroom, since it is the only room with a working air conditioner. Yep, we have a three bedroom apartment, and now two bedrooms aren't being used at all!! Good thing that Thao's neice Chip is coming to stay with us for a week on Sunday :D