Korean students, body builders and food!

An interesting week, sort of.  We had a young girl from Korea stay with us for the week.  She normally lives with our friend Karen and her family as she goes to the international school with her daughters but as they had to leave for their Christmas vacation 1 week before school ended, Young Eun (or Marie as we called her) came to stay with us until last night when she flew home to spend Christmas with her family in Korea.  She is a lovely girl, but all she did was study, every night up until really really late.  I would wake up at about 12pm and if she was still up I would turn the Internet off to try and get her to go to bed.  I don't know if she was on the net or not but I wondered what else could she be studying for during her final week of school?  She is 17 so I couldn't just demand her to go to bed, but a few subtle hints may have been dropped.  The kids loved having her with us, they would run into her room every morning and make a big noise and mess and she was too polite and shy to kick them out.  But now she has gone home Judd gets to have his bedroom back much to every ones relief.  We had him sharing with Lillie the first night and that lasted about 1 hour before he woke her up with his wandering around and ended up in our bedroom.  I put up the portacot for him and he just fit into it with only millimeters to spare.  He definitely isn't a baby anymore! 

Last Sunday Marcus got his second tattoo.  Ouch!  He has already got Judd down the right side of his torso and to balance it out he now has Lillie down the other side.  A really good job too, the writing is slightly thicker than the first one but I think it looks heaps better.  Now he has got the taste for them he wants to get a full 3/4 sleeve done.  We have been looking at some designs at the shop we found just off Beach Road in Pattaya next to Mikes Mall.  It is the cutest little alley, all the way down it is just tattoo parlors and artists workshops.  I loved just walking along watching all the artists working on their paintings, so much so that this Sunday we have the nanny booked to watch the kids while we go out shopping for the day and I plan to go back to that alley and buy a big original piece of artwork for above my dining room table.  They all seemed fairly reasonably priced too. 
Marcus and I have been talking about taking a day to ourselves and just walking along the streets and alleys and checking out all of the little bazaars and markets that are too hard to go to when we have the 2 kids in tow, so we figured the Sunday before Christmas we will take the whole day to ourselves and hopefully have some fun together too.  It gets hard sometimes when the kids keep us so busy to take time to remember how to laugh with each other again.  And to think I have seriously been thinking about adding to our stress and having another baby!  Which surprise surprise, Marcus has agreed to, but only on one condition....I need to lose the weight I have been complaining about for 3 years, I have to get myself down to 70kgs before he will allow me to get pregnant.  Isn't that wonderful of him?  Actually it is, he has found the incentive I have needed to get off my ass and really get serious about losing this extra weight, before it becomes and permanent fixture.  So the plan is to not go crazy and cut out all the good stuff in my diet, I mean who travels half way across the globe to go on a bloody diet?  Not me, there is far too much delicious food and drink to be had while we are living this wonderful experience, but I do plan to take it all in more moderation, only drink on weekends and try to cut out the sugar as much as possible.  Thai food is quite filling so I don't find myself over eating I just snack on far too many sweets and drink too much Coke.  Plus I need to work in a new exercise routine, I would like to walk everyday but it is soooo bloody hot that I am dripping sweat into my eyes before I get one lap around the block, so I need to think of something else that fits into my day of taking care of Lillie and taking Judd to and from school and also fits in between Lillie's naps and feeding and on and on and on.  Yes I have a nanny/maid but lately I have been staying with Lillie alot more and her naughty behaviour has stopped, she is eating again and has stopped having as many tantrums.  So leaving her with the nanny everyday isn't really an option at the moment, not if I want to keep my sanity anyway.
I will think of something and I will reach my goal then I will stack it all back on with my baby weight with pregnancy number 3! LOL LOL!

Last night we took the kids to the big shopping mall in town for dinner, we like to do this on Fridays as Marcus works every Saturday so he wants to get out and do something before the weekend is over for him, which I totally understand.  So we had dinner at a lovely Japanese and Korean restaurant, and we ate like champions, even Judd surprised us and ate a Pork Steak with his rice and then he even went so far as to eat the udon noodles from our soup!  I nearly fell out of my seat with shock, this is the boy who wont even taste ice cream or chocolate and don't even think about getting him to eat a pea and here he is eating pork and noodles like he has been eating them his whole life!  What a champion.  Even Lillie has some rice, she is becoming so much better with her food lately too (but I shall not get my hopes us just yet as with kids you just never know).  After dinner we went out to the front of the mall to get a photo with the biggest Christmas tree I have seen, all lit up in blue and purple lights, but we got outside and there was a Thai body building competition on.  OMG I have never seen such ripped little (or not so little) Thai men!  They had muscles coming out of everywhere, it was fascinating and of course I had to interrupt family photo time to get some pics of these men.  It was weird and gross at the same time.  But Lillie and Jud loved dancing to the music they were playing, it was so cute.  That is what I love about Thailand, everyday there is always always something happening, something to celebrate and everyone is pretty much in a pleasant and cheerful mood.  If I wanted to to I could take the kids down Walking Street and still feel totally safe and not have to deal with drunken louts stumbling around and starting fights and skanky women swearing their heads off.  The word for Thailand really is Mai Pen Rai