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Rubbing Off

Spring is here again and Araella does what all children seem to do – keeps growing. Last year she was two on the verge of three and now she’s on the verge of turning four. You always wonder as a father if you’re doing anything right; if they’re actually learning the values and principles you’re [...]

Role Reversal

Araella’ a trip these days. An ornery trip at times to be sure. But a trip nonetheless. Bedtime, despite it’s inevitability, is a mini epic every night. We’ve established a fairly standard routine which helps, though we are not usually sure how much she catches on to our routines until she start acting them out [...]

Podcast video

Well, lazy weekend has resulted in our first-ever video podcast. The subject is of course Araella, but if this works we want to do some on our work and life in Cambodia. Podcasts are designed to be small, and in the world of video these are small files. But in the world of internet, the [...]

I Like Salt

While technically defined as sentence fragments, Araella is now putting together phrases which, while not always grammatically correct, are usually quite descriptive… Just the other day I discovered Araella sitting in a remote corner of the house with a large pile of white stuff between her legs. She had managed to procure the salt shaker [...]