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After the recent success of taking Megan to the photo studio last month, Nok though that it would be good to take her again today.  The results are good but I don’t think they are as good as last time.  Megan also was not smiling as much as she was the last time.  When Uncle Paibool asked her why she didn’t smile too much she said it was because she doesn’t have any teeth….  I think she is starting to get a bit self conscious.

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Megan was struggling not being at school and was getting a bit moody and maybe lonely too since she finished school a few weeks ago. Nok decided to ask her brother, Kai, if Yang and Chi could come and stay with us for a few days to keep Megan company and give her some friends to play with during the day.

For most of the first couple of days while they were here they spent most of their time in either the small pool that Megan has or at the big pool at the Clubhouse in our village which is just round the corner from where we stay. Megan was still being a bit naughty and on Yang and Chi’s first night here Megan told Yang that she wanted then to go home. She didn’t mean it when she said it, she was just a little frustrated but Yang took it quite badly and was a bit upset. It was business as normal the following morning and Yang seemed to forgive her.

Nok also took them to the play area at Yo-Yo Land at Seacon Shopping Center, the same place I took Megan a few weeks ago when Nok was on holiday. I was at work so couldn’t join them but they seemed to have a great time and it looks like Megan was a bit more adventurous than she was when she was there with me. She was jumping around a lot more and sliding on some of the larger slides that they have.

On last weekend we took them to Leoland, this is a big water park on the roof of Central City shopping mall in BangNa. We have been there before, probably a couple of years ago when Megan was much younger, I think she was able to enjoy it much more this time because she is older and less scared about playing in water. They were all a bit wary at first so I decided to get in the water with them and play with them a bit more and try to bring them out of their shells. Megan was more interested in eating and spent most of the time running between the pool and eating the food that Nok had bought. I think it was a good time for Yang and Chi to get a bit more used to being around me and they seemed to relax much more than they had done previously. Most of the time before then they would just stare at me like I was a big monster because they found it difficult to communicate with me because they speak little or no English and they also don’t get much experience being around westerners.

Yang is very much like his dad and is much more confident and is very jovial. Chi is very different and more like his mother, he is much quieter and a lot of the time you feel he is just sitting back and watching and learning. They are great kids and more that welcome to come stay with us again. I know that Megan will miss them a lot over the next few weeks.

Here is a great video from a couple of years ago.  It is amazing just how much Megan has changed and grown up over the last couple of years.

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Nok took Megan to the shopping mall yesterday and stopped of at one of the small photo studios to get some photos of her.  Here are the results.

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Megan finished her first year of kindergarten today, actually she only joined midway through the year so she has had an easy start.  She will now have a 6 week break from school and return in May.  We are thinking about putting her in for 3 weeks during summer school so that she is well prepared for the year ahead but nothing is confirmed yet. 

As the school is only a kindergarten the kids will need to go to another school once they finish K3.  Today was the schools first graduates as it is only a new school and it was the first time for them to put on a show with all the kids from all the classes from Pre-Kindergarten 1, 2 and 3 and also Kindergarten 1, 2 and 3. 

She is already exited about going into K2 after the summer and today we found out that her new teacher, Teacher Tammy, is the mother of her old teacher, Teacher Cat.

Below is a video of Megan performing with her classmates on stage.

Show at Kindergarten from ThaiBankie on Vimeo.