Thai 4th of July etc.

July 2- July 8 2007
Thai 4th of July. There are a couple of Thai MBA students doing internships at DOW with James this summer, so James invited them to invited them to cook for a small group of friends so we could all experience a Thai Fourth of July. We took them shopping for ingredients at one of the Asian markets and we were amazed at all of the exotic combos they came up with. We all went over to Alisa and Lonnie Mercer’s house and luckily they have a huge kitchen that accommodated the day long cooking affair. Our Thai friends, Nee and Niran seriously kept making one dish after another. . .and then another. Everyone was pretty stuffed at the end.
Levi weaned himself from his binky this week. Lately he hasn’t really needed it and now if you try to give it to him he’ll spit it out—hooray! I’m really glad that that process was pretty painless. I expected him to put up more of a fight, but he did it on his own.

Isaac threw something at Levi in the backseat when we were driving on Westheimer home from the library and it freaked me out so I yelled at Isaac very forcefully and he was quiet for a second and then said, “Can I kiss you mom?”

We ate Sunday dinner at the Turner’s house (a family friend of James’ from Michigan who just moved to Houston over in the Katy area). We made cookies together afterwards and when the cookies were too hot to eat Isaac said, “Queires soplarlo mama?”

Cama para Isaac! On Saturday we FINALLY went and got Isaac a bunk bed at IKEA. Tim and Julia helped James put it together on it looks really good. At first Isaac just wanted to jump on it, but we settled him down and had him practice going up and down the ladder.