sibling bonding

The kids (as Rae and Robby are called) have been doing much better together. One example:
They share some good time at the table eating cheesy potatoes (thanks Beth). Then it is on to fun with stickers and bouncing on the top bunk of their beds. Great times for the two of them. The only bad part of it was that it was happening at 1:30 in the morning! Jet lag does nasty things to your body's sense of schedule. We put them to bed at 9pm or so and they sleep for three hours and wake up thinking they just took a nice long nap. We can't convince them that they need to sleep for six more hours.

Amazingly, Robby has been doing much better than Rachael. He is sleeping much better at night, at least for the most part he does not get up and play like she does. He does have a period of about an hour where he calls out repeatedly and wants someone to touch him...speaking to him doesn't help. He was calling Mama "nie la" (you come) over and over...of course Mama came. Last night he woke up calling out for his Aiya. Aiya means auntie and is what the kids in orphanages call their care givers. Mama was able to comfort him, but it was touching that he wanted his aiya.

One side light, Aiden, 3, was one of the little boys in our travel group. He and Kayla fell in love with each other. He would call her aiya and loved to play games with Kay.

We discovered today that Robby loves pancakes. Some of the 'American' food we give him he just looks at and won't eat. We know he is thinking 'what kind of crazy foods do these barbarians eat?' and this from a kid whose home town eats all kinds of animal parts! However, he stuffed his mouth full of pancakes this morning. A future I-hop fanatic in the making.