These are the microbuses. The different forms of transportation are the metro (subway), the autobuses (big buses like in America), microbuses and taxis. We live right near a microbus station so it is pretty crazy. The usual method of knowing which one goes where is a guy or a boy hanging out the window yelling where they are going over and over again. The people here are pretty hacked off right now because the prices of everything just went up. Our gas prices went up to $0.85/gallon so microbusses are now $0.13.

My brother has 4 boys and they are in the process of adopting 2 girls from china. So I told my friend H (who by the way says hi to my brother Chris), that Chris is going to buy a microbus to drive around all those kids... and that Chris will hang out the window and scream where he is going (home! home! home! or supermakret! supermarket! supermarket!). He thought that was pretty stinkin' funny.

so we have been watching super-nanny over here and we think it is great. she uses this technique called the naughty spot. she doesn't like sending kids to their rooms because it is where they sleep and play so they shouldn't be punished there. we agree and if spanking is needed then we use the spankula (a wooden spatula that we use for spanking) in the bathroom.




well the other day yvonne got landon some juice and some breadsticks and we told him to say thank you but he wouldn't. we don't view this as a spankula-rific offense so we instituted the naughty chair. we put him in one of our family room chairs and told him he couldn't get out of the chair until he told mommy thank you. we would talk to him often... making sure that he understood why he was being punished and told him that he needed to obey his parents and we told him all he had to do is say thank you.
well he wasn't in the mood to obey... and believe us... he understood us.

this is the beginning...
















after 20 minutes...
















after 45 minutes...
















after 1 hour and 10 minutes...
















after 1 hour and 35 minutes...
















after 1 hour and 50 minutes...
















after 2 hours and 5 minutes...
















after 2 hours and 7 minutes the boy finally gave in. some may say that this was a bit excessive but he needs to know that we mean business from the get-go. since that day... he has said thank you right away... or said pretty much anything we want him to say... very quickly! he doesn't want to go back to the naughty chair :)

We have been meaning to take this picture for a long time... but with my new handy dandy stinkin' sweet fun-loving awesome great super hi-tech easy fast and beautiful sony dsc-n1 digital camera with the 3" touch screen... i got it in a flash with no long wait times like the old camera.so anyway... there is a white VW bug here that looks just like herbie... and now we present it to you for your viewing pleasure... enjoy.

Our friend, Andrew just headed on back to the states. It has been a good time having him here and hope to see him here again. Bye bud.

here is a recent picture of yvonne and josiah... she is about 6 months along here...

I have always been a big fan of pioneer stereo components. I guess the people here like pioneer a lot too but maybe due to a lack of proper fundage they settle for the equate brand version pioneer.

It's nearly pioneer.

Landon just got his big boy bed! He has been in it for about a week now and it has been great. We were thinking that maybe he might not do so hot in it for the first few days but he did great!








He is hilarious about hats and shoes. When he wakes up... if he is in his pajamas or if he is only in a diaper... he brings us his shoes and wants us to put them on for him.
















We went with a friend from school to her Catholic church. It was very nice! They have a nice courtyard and Landon and I played soccer for about 45 minutes. Everybody wanted to kiss on him but all he wanted to do was play soccer... or actually football to say it right.

























Landon loves to hang on the handles on the subway. Don't worry... i was behind him ready to catch him when he fell.

here are some cute shots of landon and his good buddy lee anna...

z

hey all,

sorry for the extreme delay in posts. i am utterly ashamed.

you know how if you were supposed to call a friend and you forgot... sometimes you just postpone it further because you don't want to confront the uncomfortable situation? that is me with the blog the past few weeks.

forgiveness is what i need. NOW GIVE IT TO ME!

tim

So i made some lemonade today.
at lunch time i poured my wife a glass of the lemonade. i poured myself some milk because we were eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches... and i like to dip my pb&j's in milk and eat'em like that.
she didn't realize that I had poured milk and not lemonade and so when she saw me dipping my sandwich in my milk she said, "you're dipping your sandwich in lemonade?"... to which i immediately replied, "yep... and its good too!"
she gave me this strange look and so i encouraged her to try it by saying stuff like, "don't knock it till you try it" and "just try one little corner... its not like you're going to ruin the whole sandwich!"
so she dipped her peanut butter sandwich (she's not into the jelly) into her lemonade and tried it! i started cracking up under my breath just before it hit the lemonade but she didn't notice. right after i started laughing pretty hard and she asked what was so funny... to which i told her i had milk in my glass!
har har... you gotta love that!