Thailand and 2 months of Grandad

So Grandad left on monday after 2 months with us. What to report? Well he arrived at 114kilos!!! I sent him home at 106kilos. We had a few rows mostly over his use of slang, Charlize started saying "you wanna punch up the ear? or a bunch er fives".... After a month of winding each other up they did get friendly to the point of C letting him push the buggy and being rather sad now that Grandad is no longer around to fight with!!! I had him pushing it up and down the hill 4 times a day!!! Also he got on the bike and cycled to the Shiba Koen pool with cliff every Saturday and moaned alot about having t0o cover his tattoo with sweat bands to be allowed in but I think we managed to sweat quite a fair amount of fat off so pleased with the plan just need him to stick to it. If you are reading this dad I hope that is a banana you are munching on seriously. We managed a family holiday to Thailand. Cliff left us for a week ( eek it was not easy) to pop to Milan to attend his sister Dominique's baptism of 2 daughters Anna and Sara to whom he is the god father. There was no way I could have done standby with 2 kids to Europe for a few days and back again. He flew from Milan directly to BKK and left me to bring the 2 monsters and Grandad on the red eye on standby... Well we made it but only just. Stayed in Amari again room 2520, got the 155 dollar rate for corner suite massive with 2 rooms and a connecting door for grandad included breakie on executive floor and 3 oclock cocktails and dinner. We chilled mostly round the pool with knowing all the staff as we have been going there since she was born and they love her its the same nice ladies. She wanders up to pool bar and orders herself a fresh coconut juice then does the hands together kapumka thing!!! Did a bit of shopping in pratnam whole sale mall directly outside teh hotel doors and had a Thai massage for 99 bath that is 3 dollars for 2 hours every night. Also splurged and for 30 bucks had mani pedi, 2 hour hot herb massage and facial. God I love Thailand for the affordable pampering. Also the Thai restaurant Thai on 4 in the Amari is great as was the food court on top floor of MBK. Other bargains- I got my Tag watch serviced and battery replaced for 30 bucks instead of 100. Got my teeth filled and cleaned for 50 USD was going to do whitening but then chickened out at last minute thinking it oouch as they are sensitive anyway. Also from the photo shoot we did in Tokyo had the disc and took it to MBK where there is a studio where I laid it out the way I wanted into a collage, bit of photo shop in places and mounted on a massive canvas for the living room. It cost 60 USD as apposed to the 86,000JPY that is 900USD in Japan!!! Shipped it home for 25 USD as too massive to plane and it arrived 3 days later in one piece hurray!!! cliff hates looking at himself on the wall he wants it down but I am not budging! We had a nightmare getting home but stayed calm. All flights out of BKK way over sold on every airline and have been the last year!!! What is the poingt in having airline benefits with a family you can never ever use them. We need better salary instead. We had Grandad with us so our options on other airlines were limited. In the end we had to Jet Star for 50 bucks each but no check in luggage!!! to Singapore ( in end I paid the 20 USD for a check in bag with all my Thai shopping in) and then one night at airport crowne plaza in singers ( modern and walk to check in 1 minute so good as flight left at 7am and nice food court in basement with play area) back to Tokyo on United. did manage 5 seats all to us in Premium economy and had an extra on the bulk head which grandad nabbed and had a nice kid free return flight until charlize worked out how to bonk him on the head over the seat with her head phones!!! The kids were very well behaved with all the travel all things considered but we did get reminded that Charlize can not do cars she projectile voms after 10 mins in a car we had that prob in Italay too every year in the people carrier I had just forgotten. So that meant we only managed Wat Po and a river boat taxi and the rest we had to sky train. Back to Tokyo last week and its still warm now even in October it has been a very hot hot summer this year. Serafina doing well growing growing so fast. She coos, says mamama, sits almost unaided and can push up really well on her tummy. She is a very easy going little dolly although we do have some probs with colic she really does not bring up wind no matter how much I try and burp her and then an hour later screams in pain. Roll on 6 months. Also breast milk low at 6pm feed but sorted that thankfully with the Fungkuk herb tablets from Lesley. To date she has not had formula ( I tried) but she wont take the bottle..) Apart from making armpits stink of cumin they really do work. Charlize in love with Lesley's little girl Vivinne and Bella the dog who she wants to take for walks all the time. Dont ask me about cliffs job I still have no idea and almost afraid to think about it. Just putting out of mind. Soon to be Halloween and then after that it will be Cs birthday so other things to keep us busy. Xmas is how many months away???!!!! HELP!