Bangkok Week 888 July 3, 2025 It’s the first week of Arlo & Lucy’s summer holiday … and it feels like a month! View fullsize It's the first day of summer holidays, and Arlo is wasting no time. View fullsize He's set up his own little office... View fullsize ... and is off to work. View fullsize Very proud of the frame-in-frame illustration he's made... View fullsize ... his hand, drawing a picture of his hand drawing a picture. View fullsize At breakfast, the focus continues: concentrating on coloring. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Making larger-than-life deep sea art outside. View fullsize New toy from dad: TV remotes for each of them! View fullsize View fullsize Make-up swimming lesson for Arlo. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize My receipt for "one blue hippo". View fullsize Morning trip with Dad to a very important bakery. View fullsize View fullsize No trip to Holey is complete without a gourmet cookie - the most pricey Oreo out there! View fullsize And then onward to Makro. (Thank you for all the frozen bread.) View fullsize Lucy says thank-you for the gourmet Oreo. View fullsize And another swimming lesson for Arlo: this time, in his normal slot but with a stand-in teacher. View fullsize And then an afternoon playdate at Nimo's house. So many new toys! View fullsize Concentrating hard on their slime. View fullsize The three of them are taking a trip down to the 8th floor common area all by themselves... View fullsize ... because Nimo has a new set of industrial-grade walkie talkies that easily travel the distance. Over. View fullsize The parents followed a few short minutes later, when reports of a leak and water all over the floor came via the radio waves. View fullsize Heading to dinner across the street in the aftermath of what turns out to have been a very rough storm! View fullsize These two were hungry! View fullsize View fullsize Nevermind that it's super late: move night must go on! View fullsize This big girl is peeling her own breakfast egg with skill. View fullsize No supressing the climber in her. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize What now, Lucy? View fullsize Meanwhile, at piano, Arlo has brought his new favorite accessory. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize He wanted to bring a keyboard to keyboard class! View fullsize View fullsize Well, the keyboard had a fun morning out. View fullsize Riding the lift back down... View fullsize ... and home safely in his lap. View fullsize Meanwhile, this one had a make-up lesson of her own with Dad. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Big hug from P'Octopus. View fullsize Playdate with Juma, a good friend from school. View fullsize View fullsize Doing origami together: Arlo and Lucy definitely need practice. View fullsize Heading to the playground, hand-in-hand. View fullsize Playing ball and on the jungle gym together. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize You can't tell from the photo, but this is one *HUGE* mosquito. Positively massive. (I thought it was a type of bee.) View fullsize Hurrying home before the rain, and carrying the ball bag together. View fullsize View fullsize Quick, run! View fullsize View fullsize Bathtub bath! We haven't had one of those in a while! View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize The plant from Arlo's graduation was being munched up by 3 (three!) giant snails one morning. View fullsize I guess it's a tasty plant! View fullsize View fullsize Looking through his learning journey to calm down. View fullsize This one needs to enroll in climbing classes! View fullsize View fullsize Practicing for his upcoming recital. View fullsize Giving Arlo some space to practice. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize We figured out that whiteboard markers make great tattoo pens! View fullsize Dressing herself with confidence. View fullsize View fullsize Challenge accepted: Arlo wrote his name so that it faced the right way for me, standing outside the shower. View fullsize Jellyfish, by Arlo. View fullsize Popping over to the St Andrews uniform shop, to make sure we have the essentials in hand before the new year begins. View fullsize It's not a big shop, so we're lucky to avoid the crowds. View fullsize Looking good, Arlo! View fullsize One PE uniform, too (although we'll likely need a second soon). View fullsize Folding more paper boats. View fullsize View fullsize Enjoying his first durian of the season - what a real Thai boy! View fullsize Reading to himself before it's officially time to wake up. View fullsize Annual eye check-up. Arlo brought his deep sea textbook to read while waiting. View fullsize View fullsize This year, he could read the letters with much more confidence. (Because of his phonics lessons, not his eyesight.) View fullsize View fullsize No worse than last year! Come back in a year! View fullsize View fullsize A hastily drawn coloring job for his room. View fullsize The stomp rocket has been a hit during this first week off from school. View fullsize View fullsize Good action shots! View fullsize One last make-up swimming lesson for Lucy. View fullsize Whole entire facility to herself! View fullsize View fullsize Mum's learned the hard way to suit up when consuming khao soi and khanom jeen. View fullsize Preparing eggs in the kitchen. View fullsize View fullsize And one last make-up lesson for Arlo before we go. View fullsize View fullsize Lucy calls his her "unicorn" hair. View fullsize Matching unicorns. See you next week!
