update

Isaac:

Isaac is crawling! so our household is entirely mobile, making life more complex. Making sure that Isaac doesn't crawl off the edge of the bed we could leave him on before, being confident he would be where we left him. He is also very interested in standing up, pulling himself upright at any chance. He particularly likes doorways where he can get a good grip to pull himself up.
    He continues to be a happy, smiley boy, always greeting us each morning with a smile and a little 'happy jig'.
    His newest, first?, game is to have his head covered with a kramar (towel) and he pulls it off, laughing. We ask, "where's Isaac?" and he pulls down the kramar and smiles wide as if to say, "Here I am!".

Patrick

Patrick is lots of fun, too. Last weekend we put in a sand-pit and swing. Of course the cat loves to use the sand-pit as a toilet if we leave the cover off. Patrick manages to get sand everywhere - everywhere on him and everywhere around the house. He and I have on and off battles-of-wills. If he thinks he's not getting enough attention he starts playing up, doing everything he can think of to get my attention. Often the attention he gets is negative. I constantly amaze myself at how grumpy I am as a dad.
    We got a second cat (after the first one died in two days) and they are 'best buddies'. Well, Patrick likes to think so. The cat doesn't always see the need to run away so it  gets some pretty rough treatment from time-to-time. We'll often see Patrick carrying the cat from place to place around the yard.

Vigilant Vigil Vigilates

This week our family was able to attend the Peace for Burma Vigil in front of the Burmese Embassy in Phnom Penh. For the last week roughly 70-150 people gathered in support of the democracy movement led by the monks. We have all been disturbed by the news and pictures coming out of Burma. Monks with their limbs hacked off and then their bodies torched to the point their identity is unrecognizable. It's amazing to me that information and photos are still being sent out of Burma.
    Yesterday our whole family was there. There were the usual number of vigil-ants, and the same number of police, but the police seemed higher-ranking and were busy taking photos and video footage of the people there. I'm a little nervous as to what may come of that surveillance. But it is important to Samantha and I to support the Burmese, continuing our connection with the Burmese-in-exile community of Australia.

I don't know if this photo will make it through, but here's the picture...