Here are some of the latest photos of Thomas. Admittedly, with everything going on in the last few months, I haven't taken as many photos as usual.
An update on Thomas:
He is loving school. His teacher Mrs Curry came back from India this week after six weeks away and all the kids were very happy about that. The little chickens at school are growing bigger fast. The little chicken that the kids called mrs Curry turned out to be a rooster, so they had to change its name to Mister Curry. His Japanese is improving quickly; he can now tell us all the colours in Japanese. Tomorrow he will start music lessons at school; he wanted to play the saxophone, but he will have to wait a few years, because it is too heavy. So he will probably go for the piano now. This week they were learning about opposites at school and on our way to and from school we have to ask him all the opposites. He is getting really good too, coming up with some amazing answers (smooth-wrinkly).
I was telling Alan yesterday, that having Thomas around the house is like having an instruction manual that talks. He loves explaining and demonstrating how everything works. Very exhausting sometimes when i am trying to concentrate on studies or preparing for school. This week he brought home some experiments with dry ice and our kitchen was turned into a science lab while he was showing me how the experiment worked.
At home he is really getting into lego, building some really good houses. He loves David Attenborough videos, especially about bugs, Ben10 and all the superheroes. He is still into dinosaurs and aliens (I still cannot convince him that some humans are good. He thinks humans are bad...no point trying to tell him we are human). And he tries to get on my computer every chance he gets to play the studio100-games.
He is a great help around the house; stacking the dishwasher, setting the table, making his bed, cleaning up toys and feeding animals.
Today he is off to the local flea market trying to sell one of his roosters (only 8 to go). He is very excited when he makes himself some money (he calls it bucks)and is saving up for something big (I assume it will be a spaceship).
PS: the rooster sold!!!
