What Is It With ME and Geckos?

I just met the newest member of the gecko family that shares our home.  It's a baby of the 'kitchen gecko' who lives in the cupboard above our sink.  

I'm hoping Mama Gecko has outlined the rules of conduct to her new baby otherwise there's no telling what might happen. 

Rules:

1. Stay out of sight at all times and no one gets hurt.

2. When you get caught cooling down in the sink late at night or early morning, don't play dead- instead just scurry away and we'll forget it ever happened (don't linger, okay?).

3. Never get caught out under my foot in darkened rooms (please learn from the baby gecko killed in the bathroom and the (now) stumpy tailed one who really is very lucky to still be alive).

4. No playing in the drawers... see picture below. RIP

5. Eat as many mosquitoes as physically possible.

Obey these guidelines and everyone is happy! 

I was hanging out the wet clothes one day and felt ants
crawling up my leg only to notice I was standing on a
dead gecko skeleton.  

This little guy was squished between our plastic lid drawer
and garbage bags drawer :( 

The mother of the newest kitchen gecko.

Give me your best gecko (or any other mini-beast) story.  

C'mon, I really want to hear them!!!

Random Events... of the past few days.

I just thought I’d post some photos with a brief description of what’s been going on.  The photo below is of Spencer and I in the back of a songthaew on the way to the day markets.  Spencer loves trying to put his head and arms out the open window... WHERE are those car seats we shipped? Ha ha.

These little creatures are commonly seen lurking about our doorways! Ewwwww! 

Notice how narrow this foot path is?  

Needless to say, we didn’t see many other strollers around these parts.

A very generous, lovely person gave me some spending money to go to the baking shop and purchase cooking supplies.  What a treat!! Jess took me today and this is what I got... yay!

This is Jess and I busy baking cookies.  Jess make choc chip and I made Anzac biscuits (for Australia Day).  This was Jess’ first baking experience in Thailand (she’s been here for 3 years). I’m so proud of her!!! And the cookies were delicious.

Today I stepped outside to find Dave and the kids running under the sprinkler. It took us a few minutes to realise this was something they’d never done in Australia due to the water restrictions. Well there’s no restrictions here and the kids (and Dave) had a marvellous time getting soaked.

We’ll be thinking of you all tomorrow on the 26th and celebrating over here too ... Happy Australia Day.

Andie :)