WW: Around Town

Yazan: CanCan | 03 December 2008 | 15 Comments
Categories: Engrish, Laos, pictures

Jojo and Deeds being welcomed into our favorite jiaozi shop in Vientiane.

A weird sign from the water park in Vientiane, Laos.

WW: Chinese Logos

Yazan: CanCan | 19 November 2008 | 15 Comments
Categories: China, pictures

This is a giant poster that I bought in Beijing and framed.
It is a reproduction of a vintage ad for bug spray. I love that it is two pretty, smiling girls surrounded by dead insects. Those spots on the wall paper are upside down, dead bugs.

This is a can of sweetened condensed milk from China.
I [...]

Monky Business

Yazan: CanCan | 14 November 2008 | 23 Comments
Categories: CanCan, Laos, links, pictures

Today, for Photo Friday (hosted at Delicious Baby), I thought I would share a picture from the time we decided to do family portraits at the local wat. It was fun, but hot. We got lots of neat pictures that day.

Which monk is the cutest?

Tea Time: Casio Baby-G

Yazan: CanCan | 09 November 2008 | 586 Comments
Categories: Deaky Deke, Engrish, Laos, Mom stuff, Tea Party, air travel, giveaways, pictures, reviews, riding in cars with kids

Hello, Tea Party guests!

I have been looking forward to this week for ages! This is a special week of fun and giveaways just for the ladies!
It is fun to win stuff for our children, but how about pampering yourself for a change?
True, I’m kicking things off a little early, but I just couldn’t help myself! [...]

Photo Friday

Yazan: CanCan | 07 November 2008 | 8 Comments
Categories: Engrish, Thailand, Uncategorized, pictures

Delicious Baby, a website about Making Travel With Kids Fun, invites you to share your travel photos every Friday.
These are from a shopping trip on Thursday in Udon Thani, Thailand.
Sorry about the blur; I was trying to be incognito and not draw attention to myself taking photos inside of the store.
I used to always buy [...]

Celebrating Fall

Yazan: CanCan | 02 November 2008 | 7 Comments
Categories: eating, pictures, recipes

Jojo is 4 now, and he is such fun! He is old enough to eagerly anticipate fun events like birthdays and holidays. I like to come up with reasons to have little celebrations at home.
Mama was eager to debut her Thanksgiving/Harvest table decor, so I decided to celebrate the fall season.

These table linens are a [...]

WW: Rules of the Water Park

Yazan: CanCan | 29 October 2008 | 26 Comments
Categories: Laos, pictures

I saw this sign at the water park entrance in Vientiane, Laos and I thought it was humorous in its (very necessary) attention to detail:

Music for Little Ears: Baby Loves Salsa (And Mommy, Too!)

Yazan: CanCan | 29 October 2008 | 76 Comments
Categories: Deaky Deke, Music For Little Ears, Teaching Kids about Different Culture, educational products, giveaways, pictures, reviews, soundtrack

Are you looking for some fun music to energize those long car rides? Baby Loves Salsa is a fun CD is helping to bring Latin flair to nurseries everywhere!
Produced by Grammy winning producer Aaron “Luis” Levinson, Baby Loves Salsa features some big stars in contemporary salsa music, like band leader and singer Jose [...]

Jojo’s Special Day

Yazan: CanCan | 24 October 2008 | 14 Comments
Categories: Jojo, Laos, pictures

Jojo’s 4th birthday is on Saturday, so today (with permission) we went to his school to celebrate.
At school the children take off their shoes and put them on a special shelf outside the door.

When we arrived, the teacher was having the children make birthday cards for Jojo. I was impressed!

I brought snacks for Jojo to [...]