Father's Day, December 2008

December the 5th is "Father's Day" here in Thailand as it coincides with the birthday of HRM King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the reigning monarch of the country. It is a public holiday here and a wonderful opportunity to spend the day with the family.



Little Nio was up pretty early in the morning and one of the very first things that he does is start his breakfast with some yogurt.





Here he is going at it, full of gusto. Very little distracts him when he tucks in to a tiny pint of yoghurt. As you can see here, a fist full of yogurt proves that even this nutritious meal can be considered as a kind of finger food.



This particular brand comes with bits of whole fruit, which means that you get juicy bits of strawberry in your strawberry flavored yogurt. So aside from letting him listen to classical music, this is another way to get a bit of culture into our young man.

Later in the afternoon we had to go to the dentist for my wife, Kanittha. Her wisdom teeth are growing out on both sides, so more than a week ago we took care of extracting two impacted teeth on one side. The stitches came out today. We will probably wait until next year to get the other two on the opposite side. It has been very traumatic for her and she has been in a great deal of pain.



Here's Little Nio giving directions on what he wants done. Not sure what he wants done, but he can be very emphatic about it. Very "Navarro", I think.



We also put up our tiny little Christmas tree today and Little Nio was delighted, amazed and excited by the blinking lights and all the decorations. He's actually seen a tree before when we were in Manila last year, but this is the first time that he has had one of his very own. Our tiny green tree is decorated with only red tinsel and red ornaments to deliberately give it a traditional feel.



He's at the back of the tree in this image inspecting the shiny red balls.

Later that afternoon, Little Nio and his Daddy went swimming. We didn't stay in the pool too long. Since the weather has changed the water in the pool was very cold.



Here's a photo taken with Little Nio standing on top of our coffee table in the family room just before swimming. He's not too happy about something but we couldn't figure out what he was all upset about. Let's hope it's not the size of our tiny Christmas tree he's complaining about.