The Bryan Family

A rainy day in Bangkok.

We’ve been pretty busy lately, so we haven’t done much with our tot school.  Here are some of the things that we’ve done.  Warning:  Lots of pictures

Playing with pattern blocks.

Ellie’s first attempt.

…and her second.

planting flowers

sorting flowers by color.

coloring with purple

reading the calendar

learning our colors

learning about Adam and Eve

practicing sweeping

playing with purple clay

and painting on paper…and our body.

Neale, Ellie, and I took a little trip up to Chiang Mai and Chaing Rai, Thailand with Neale’s parents.

We were all able to attend the annual Bible Camp Somprasong 4 hosts every year.  It is held in April on a beach site in Cha-am, Thailand.  We had an amazing time during the week-long retreat, worshiping and fellowshiping with more than 500 of our brothers and sisters from around Thailand, and around the world. Neale’s father was given the opportunity to both teach the adult class each day of camp and also to speak during the first evening lecture. The camp’s theme was putting ourselves 2nd in every situation, with our family, friends, and in our service to God.  Here are a few photos from camp.

Ready for Songkran.

Ellie in her Bible class.

Bill preaching with P’Glome translating.

Can you find us?

Ellie’s first French braids.

Neale, Ellie, Yaya, and I went out one morning to visit the zoo in Bangkok.  They were doing some construction on some of the exhibits, so we didn’t get to see all the animals there.  Ellie really enjoyed looking at all the animals.. (she actually got more excited to see the cartoon animals on the side of the train than she did the real animals.)  We finished our visit with the elephants and then headed back home.

Not really in the picture-taking mood, but she did stand still long enough for me to get a picture.

Modeling her bunny shirt that I made for her.  I was in the mood to make something, so I took a plain pink onesie, a few old shirts for the pieces, and made her a bunny shirt (which she called kitten the first few times).  It took me a while to hand sew all the pieces, especially around the edges to keep them from fraying.  I think it turned out pretty cute.

Searching for candied eggs that Papa and Yaya brought with them from the U.S.

Besides doing things with the color yellow, we did a few Easter activities as well.  We had to go to a market in Chinatown to find Easter eggs and they only came in sets of 100, so we did a lot of things with our eggs.  We matched the colors, learned how to open and close the eggs, put little animal erasers inside the eggs and matched them, used our eggs as a scoop in beans, and played with them during our bath to see if they would float or sink.

Ellie playing with the sound eggs that I filled with various items to make different sounds.  She really enjoyed these until she figured out how to pull the tape off and open the eggs up. 

Showing off her bunny that we made together. 

…and playing peek-a-boo!

Painting yellow Big Bird.  She knows now that when we do any kind of painting, gluing, or coloring that we use her Elmo mat.  She goes to get it herself and when she is finished with what we are doing she says “done!” and then folds (wads up in a ball) up her mat and puts it back under the sink.

Creation day 6 : God made the animals.

Matching up the animals and then…

knocking them all down.

Singing “5 Little Ducks”.  Ellie loves the “quack, quack, quack” part.