She's a big girl now. Abigail is our eight year old second grader. She’s goes to a Christian school here in Bangkok. She's picking up the Thai language so well that she's often translating Thai and English for her English teacher. She loves to read books some of her favorites being The American Girl series and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Her favorites here in Thailand include mangoes, desserts, swimming, air conditioning and riding her bike around the house. What she could do without is the sweating (she sweats like crazy. . .just like Daddy) and the mosquitoes a.k.a. "muskies". She’s also learned that the tooth fairy travels to Thailand, and even leaves Thai money instead of American money! Pretty as a princess. Deborah is at the cute and impressionable age of 5. She has inherited her older sister’s excitement for the Disney princesses. She's quite a natural dancer, and we often find her dancing or singing to herself around our house. She has just recently started playing piano, and she loves to play. Her favorites here in Thailand are watermelon, watermelon and watermelon. She enjoys her fruit so much that watching her will make you want some, too. She enjoys being in her Thai kindergarten class, and she has had no problems in making lots of friends with classmates. Her Thai is coming along, and it shows as she often plays speaking Thai instead of English. She also has Daddy’s sweat glands and sweats buckets, too. He loves his monkeys. Stephen is our very active little 3-year old, pretty different in the way he plays than the girls. He surprises us with how much he understands, and his Thai and English vocabulary grows with each day. He talks and can hold a conversation as if he was a teenager...almost, and we often find him singing to himself a variety of songs. He's busy exploring and playing with his toy cars--he loves cars. In fact, he loves riding in the car to watch the cars go by, and he could play in a parking lot if it wasn't so dangerous. He has Asian tastes in food and his favorites right now being sticky rice and grilled chicken. Yum! Already working that smile. Christopher being just a few months past 1 year enjoys eating whatever can be stuck into his mouth. These days he prefers crawling and cruising along furniture so that he can get to wherever he can sneak into. He has discovered that snatching toys that are being played with by his siblings seems to be more fun than the toys that sit in the toyboxes. Stephen seems to have trained him very well as his apprentice in his mischievous ways. He too has inherited Daddy's sweat glands as he sweats buckets, too. With the addition of Cho kid #4, we often wish that we had a dollar for each person who stares at us when we are in public as most Thai families these days have 1-2 children per household.   Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him. Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows in a warriorÕs hands. How happy is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city gates. (Psa 127:3-5 NLT)