Some pictures from my travels

Hanging out at the Bowling Alley while Uncle Jason bowls in his tourney...I was less interested in watching and more interested in all the racing games!

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Getting a bath in the sink...the tubs have glass screens that go halfway across them so it is hard for mom and dad to give me a bath in the tub.....the kitchen sink seems to be a perfect fit for now though!



Eating a local favorite........and a new favorite of mine and moms..............the shawarma! This one is chicken..it has some yogurt sauce, chicken, a pickle spear, some cucumbers and lettuce and sometimes tomatoes on a flatbread thing...YUM!!




We finally made it to Bahrain after a few troubles with our travels. I am so happy to see my Daddy! I snuggled and kissed him for quite a while!



We had to wait outside in very cold, rainy weather in Washington DC. Our flight was canceled and they gave us a hotel room but we had to wait outside for the hotel bus thing. It was pretty miserable.

A local favorite becomes one of my favorites too!

One of the cool things about Bahrain is the food. This local favorite is a shawai'ma or shwarma. It is a thick flat bread with either lamb, beef, or chicken, veggies, and a cucumber sauce. I love them so much. Whenever I see them or smell them I go bonkers until one gets cut up for me. Of course I would rather eat them whole but mom doesn't like it when I stuff half a shwarma into my mouth. Here I am enjoying a chicken shwarma, this one had fries inside of it too. This is kind of like the Bahraini version of fast food, kind of like their version of a gyro or burrito. And you can have them delivered, actually you can have any food delivered here. I can't wait to have another shwarma and lucky for us the place that was voted best in Bahrain is very near to us on the road that daddy calls "heart attack row" it is where all of the American fast food places are.............even burger king, dairy queen, and mcdonalds deliver here. We never eat at those places though, why should we when the local food is so much better!

On being an expat baby

Here I am in Bahrain. We came here to live with my daddy, he has alreay been here for a year. I like it here a lot. Everywhere we go I ooh and ahh over the things I see! In Bahrain one this is for sure, they love kids a lot in Bahrain and everywhere you go there are tons of fun things for the kids to do. In the big City Centre mall there is a massive kids area with games, a playground, rides, a huge merr-go-round, one whole part of the mall is all kids stores and toy stores even! The people are so friendly to me too, they always say hi to me then call other people over to look at me and say hi. And at Rics and Fudruckers the waitresses cleaned me up with wet wipes after I ate and picked me up and carried me around showing me off. I don't understand what they are saying but I am very young so I am sure I will come to understand a bit of their language as I grow. I like the food here a lot, mommy was worried that the flavors would be too different but I have enjoyed shawai'mas, lamb kabobs, beef kababs, persian chicken with rice, sweet melon juice, a wonderful gumbo made by my new Uncle Jason, and warm fresh flatbreads with hummus and cucumber garlic sauce which I really loved. Mommy says she is happy that I am so young because I will really grow up with 2 cultures and have a good start on living a diverse and open-minded life. I wanted to show you some new pictures of me but the pictures won't upload right now so hopefully I can do that later.

It's been awhile

It has been so long since I updated any of my blogs, a lot of things have been keeping me busy but once I get settled in my new home in a few weeks I will be back to updating reguarly.

Experiencing new things......

I've been neglecting the blogs lately, life has just gotten in the way. I spent two weeks with stitche in my right hand so that slowed me down a bit. I did take plenty of pictures though! I got this great one of Skye laughing at Lexi. Her face is hilarious. She is also learning to feed herself with a spoon. She likes eating with her fingers but always tries to take my spoon so I gave her one the other day and she did a nice job. She took her first steps yesterday, I wasn't quick enough with the camera. They were wobbly and she looked down at her feet each time, after 5 steps she reached out for me and I clapped and cheered. I also got her a little guitar the other day. The strings move and make noises too. She put held it the right way the very first time, I think she has her Daddy's talent! Ever since then everytime she even lifts her foot up she claps and cheears!! I have my video camera charged, hopefully she will take more steps soon!

More Movies

Just a few random movies of Skye. They are about a month old if not older by now so I will have to take some more to post soon. Enjoy!

Skye updates

I can't get the picture upload thing to work today so we'll just go with some writing.

Skye has 2 new teeth bringing the total up to 7, that is 4 on top and 3 on bottom. She has some funny new things she does. Well, it isn't very funny but her reaction is a hoot. She loves to bite me now and when I say "ouch!" she scrunches her face up, puts her hands on front of her and says in a real scratchy voice "owwwwwwwww!" Pretty cute even though it is painful, I am sure she keeps doing it because I laugh. She has discovered her toybox finally, it is in the living room and has been there for some time now but she never paid any attention to it. The other day she pulled herself up on it and started pulling stuff out of it much to my delight and surprise. She emptied the whole thing they crawled away to pick up a forgotten cheerio she spied under the couch! Today while at moms she discovered the stairs, a scary thing for any parent. I stood behind her to see what she would do and she actually climbed up the first step........oh boy, time to get a baby gate for the stairs! Skye is saying mama, dada, hi, and Rob so far, I am sure she will be a talking considering the family she comes from!