June
This month had a lot of firsts for our family.
Tannin has finally named everyone at home, Daddy, mommy,
baby Lana, Gairweh (Garrett), Wy-yeh (Wyatt), Hoti (Sophie), Ama (Gramma),
Pawpaw, and he’s Tan-tan or Ta-ta, depending on the day. Tannin also ate his
first bowl of cereal with milk! We’ve also been reading books to him every
night, and he’s started “reading” them back to us from memory. His other major
accomplishment was completing his first 24-piece puzzle! He could have done it
before, but his attention span was too short and he got bored before he’d
finish. Finally, he can sit long enough to do it!
Alana has started wearing pigtails! Her hair’s long
enough…at 10 months! That’s pretty crazy. We were looking at some pictures the
other day and realized that Tannin’s hair was much shorter at this age than
her’s. Tannin got his first hair cut at 11 months, but even then, it was only
half the length of hers. She’s also walking much better! While before, if she
stumbled and sat down she’d start crawling, now she just gets right back up and
keeps walking! She’s also roaring…no need to point fingers at anyone, like me,
or Olivia, or Tannin, lol. She has now been initiated.
As a family, we got to celebrate Father’s Day on the 19th
with some friends from church! We invited them and their two boys over for a
cook out and some splash time. We got out the kiddie pool and lots of toys and
let the kids go crazy while we chatted. It was a lot of fun J
Then, at the end of
the month, we traveled to India! We left out of Birmingham (after visiting the Peach Park in Clanton) on the 25th
and arrived in Bangalore on the 26th. The kids did surprisingly well
on the plane flights and we actually had a pretty good time. Alana slept a lot and
Tannin watched movies and played games. We flew from Birmingham to Atlanta (30
mins) then from Atlanta to Paris, France (9 ish hrs). It was so cool to be in
another country! We got to sample some of their breakfast items; a croissant like
thing that had a sweet meaty filling, and Richard bought some chocolate. It was
dark chocolate and I really didn’t like but he loved it. We got served meals on
the planes, which was cool. I had never experienced that before. The food wasn’t
too bad, though they were French meals and I didn’t know what all I was eating
half the time. Lol
From Paris we had a 10 ish hr flight to Bangalore, India.
That one got a little long. Tannin and Alana both got up at different points to
walk the aisles (or frog hop, that happened too). Before we took off in Paris
though, the pilot came on the intercom and said that per international
agreement the plane had to be sprayed for bugs before we could take off. As he
was telling us about how safe the stuff was a flight attendant came walking
down the aisle with two cans of bug spray at shoulder level spraying the air
behind him as he walked around the entire plane! It was a very weird experience….
We finally landed in India and had to go through customs. It
was pretty cool though, they had a special line for families with small children,
so we didn’t have to stand in line long. After we made it through security we
had to get our luggage. We came down the escalator and immediately got bombarded
with men asking if we needed a porter. I just told them no and kept walking but
Richard couldn’t understand them very well so he stopped to see what they
wanted. At that point they swarmed him all asking the same question. I yelled
back and told him to say no and keep walking. Lol He was so confused. We
retrieved all but one of our bags but that was ok. It was one that we didn’t
need right away.
We finally made it out of the airport and stepped outside.
It was beautiful! When we left Alabama it was in the 90s, Bangalore was a
wonderful 70 with a light breeze. It felt so good! We got a cab and Tannin had
a blast. Alana fell asleep but our little man loved being able to ride in the
car without a seat belt. He stood up in the seat watching everything as we
drove through the city, and loudly pointed out every stray dog he saw…which was
quite a few. lol
We got to our hotel at about 4:30 am India time. Slept for 3 ish hours and then relaxed and explored the area around the hotel. We found a fun little grocery store that had everything we would need and a Baskin Robbins….
…and I’ll leave that right there because the rest happened in July lol ;)
We got to our hotel at about 4:30 am India time. Slept for 3 ish hours and then relaxed and explored the area around the hotel. We found a fun little grocery store that had everything we would need and a Baskin Robbins….
…and I’ll leave that right there because the rest happened in July lol ;)
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