The Latest Edition

We realized recently that we're due for some updates on various situations and experiences we've written about recently. Sorry to keep you hanging on the household plumbing saga and the family's health! As far as the indoor flooding, we are back to being on dry land when it rains - the worker came while we were in Thailand and cleaned out the clog in the pipes. (Not to get into too many yucky details, plumbing here is generally pretty wimpy, and it's very typical to put used toilet tissue into a wastebasket in the bathroom instead of flushing it - sometimes the septic system can't handle it. We hadn't needed to do that at the other house we lived in, and were hoping not to have to here. Pray that our system - with a little TLC - will handle its load from now on!)

Photo above: Our new home (the AC unit you see is not ours - we use fans and sweat!)

And our family is healthy again, though it was a rough ride. The day that Ryan wrote about needing to take Kai to a doctor, we went to an international clinic (the doctor and nurse we saw were Khmer but spoke English) at 9 pm, concerned that Kai was dehydrating since he couldn't keep anything inside. He received good care and recovered in a few more days. So, after the sickness that started with Juliana, went to Kai, was passed to Daddy and then on to Mommy, we are all back to good health (PTL!).

Three-quarters of the recovered crew

Kai has some more milestones to report. He's been busy cutting more teeth - the total count is up to 6! He was not himself the weeks when two or three of the top four were trying to come through the gums almost all at the same time, but he's less cranky recently since they're almost all in now. His other big news is his new mobility! Our days of just sitting him on his play mat and knowing he'd stay there are over - he's very happy to scoot on his well-padded bottom to explore places that look interesting. We just had a "jee-ung" (worker) here this morning to talk about installing gates for the stairs, in hopes of avoiding a tumble down the concrete, non-carpeted steps!

Showing off his new teeth

Being mobile has interesting moments (getting stuck under a dining room chair being one of them!)

Oh, and he's learning to drive a tuk-tuk, too! (Sok, another tuk-tuk driver/friend, and Kai)

Thank you for praying for us and asking how we are when we forget to give updates. - Bethany