August

There isn't much new to report around here. Drai is doing very well. He is starting to stand up on his own a lot and can now climb up on the bed. He moves incredibly fast. We went out for dinner last night with Mike and his girlfriend Sandy. I had just finished commenting on how fast Drai's hands were. Then another guy showed up that I hadn't seen in about a year. After about two minutes of watching Drai grabbing things, he said, "My God that kid has fast hands." So perhaps he is destined to be a goalie. Or a card shark.

He has now mastered saying, "Mama" and started saying "Dada" today. He also can say the cats name, "Bao Bao."

Everyone told me I would be amazed how fast babies grow up but I didn't really understand until now.

Taiwan is still recovering from the typhoon. About 6-600 people died in it. Most were buried under mud slides. The majority of the people that died lived within two hours of here. It is pretty sad. Especially watching the news and seeing their president lie constantly about it. I was watching him give English interviews on Reuters and CNN and saying one thing; then turning around and saying something completely different to the Taiwanese media. For example, he said on English TV on the Saturday that they didn't need outside help and could handle it. But then, when everyone died, he asked for outside help. He then blamed his underlings for not bringing in outside help earlier and told the Taiwanese media he didn't know they had turned down the outside help. (Even though, it was he that did so.)Then, he told the Western media that he would take full responsibility as he was president. Then, the next day all the guys under him tailored their resignations but he did nothing. It's very frustrating to watch. All politicians lie but this guy really needs to start getting busted on it. Taiwan needs a Jon Stewart equivalent to expose the punk.

We lost our awesome nanny. She needs a full time job to help her family, so we had to find another one quickly as she only gave us a one week notice. I think one of my students is going to do it. Which will hopefully work out well. She doesn't know much about babies but we can teach her and Jenny is always just in the next room teaching when the nanny will be taking care of Drai. She is a hottie too, so Drai will be happy. I can't hire any ugly nannies. That would be child abuse right?