What's up with Elisabeth & George?: Penang -- Week 16 -- Just call him Flipper

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Penang -- Week 16 -- Just call him Flipper

TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY, July 1st & 2nd

Carmen and family are back from their trip home and she invites me and Regin over for a little pool time with other moms and kids. We get there pretty late (after nap time) so everyone is pretty much leaving by that time, and Carmen is dying to get out of the heat by now, but R and I have a blast by ourselves in Carmen's pool. There is a large shallow area that Regin is free to walk around in and play. I'm constantly standing guard between him and the rest of the pool, and leaping to his rescue every time he loses his balance and does a face plant in the water. Wow my boy loves the water! I have a hard time ripping him out of the pool, but I have to, or we'll both be (soggy) burnt toast. Carmen and I hang a little and chat, but it's always challenging chatting at someone else's house with R around. I have to follow him and take everything out of his hands and put it back. Still, it's nice to spend some time with Carmen.

There is another issue with the sofa again. So, it's still gone and we haven't heard anything about when it'll be coming back. George calls, and at first they seem surprised that we don't have it. Then they say it's in KL and it hasn't been worked on. George loses it. This is unacceptable. It's been a couple of months since we bought the stupid thing and we STILL have never had a usable sofa! We get all sorts of promises and someone (some manager from a store in another city) who is actually good with customer service is taking care of "Mr. George" now. I'm not sure what transpired, but all I can hear while George is on the phone is a woman's voice saying "Sorry Mr. George" a lot, and finally George calms down.

Random pictures from July 1st - 2nd:

Eggs and Papaya (= "Appuh" and "paya" in Regin) make for a messy meal I can never resist shooting photos of a food-covered face like that! Here he rests his head, as he often does when he's sleepy, and says, "nigh! nigh!"

Here you can see five of his eight teeth. What a smile, huh?

More eating "paya"...

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How we're doing right now.

April 6th, 2009
Oh man, moving back home has been quite a transition! For Regin especially. It has taken him three months to return to being fully, or almost fully, potty trained. But we're home and happy to be with friends and in an environment where things are easier.

But of course, not everything is easier. George's first day back to work he learned that the company was exiting the business and he and all the other people that work on that product (including all those people he trained in Penang) were told to look for other jobs.

His last day was March 31st. No time for that cozy little 'sabbatical' though; after he finished his last day of work, his family called and told us they are coming (from Florida) for a visit on the 10th! This would be no big deal (other than being terribly exciting) if we were fully moved back in, but of course, until now, we've had VERY little motivation to fully unpack! So now we're preparing the house at warp speed!

You know, I do miss Penang. Hard to say what I miss exactly, because I know it's more than our friends there, but I feel a certain pang. And all the time we were there, other than missing family, friends, easy living, and snow, I never once actually missed 'Colorado.'

When we got back to Colorado, I expected to have a new and complete love for the place. I do appreciate some things a lot more, especially visual things. I see beauty where I didn't before. But it hasn't been the feeling of home that I expected, and I still have some of the same issues with the place. But what I do love IMMENSELY and will always love IMMENSELY is the people we have here. And it's been absolutely amazing to see how Regin has picked right back up where he left off with his loved ones here. There's no doubt in my mind that he somehow remembers them.