family tree
We had Yai, Pa Nok and P Monet in house for weeks and the big Thai family in one small house does affect the boys's family tree concept. Let's see...
There are 2 mama, 3 "Mae" (mother=แม่): Mama is a Mama, Pa Nok is a Mama for P Monet, then Yai, Pa Nok, and Mama is "Mae" (แม่) for different persons!!
First, Mama is Mama for the boys but Mama is "Na Nam" (Aunty Nam) for Monet and the same Mama is "Nam" for Papa, Yai, and Pa Nok.
Then, Pa Nok is Mama for Monet but she is also "Pa Nok" for the boys, she is "Pii Nok" for Mama (older sister), and she is "Nok" for Yai and Papa.
Then, Yai is Yai for all the boys (this is easy!), but she is "Mae" (mother=แม่) for Mama and Pa Nok and "Khun Mae" for Papa.
Now, Papa is Papa for the boys, also he is "Na Rieko" for Monet and he is "Rieko" for Yai and Pa Nok.
Mama even has an headache describing this relations..imagine how the boys wil be...let's see the results.
One day, Monet needed some help in the shower. He shout "Mama Pii Nok, Help!!!"(Here he has got the point, to specify whom he needed to come and help coz if he only shout "Mama"..who knows who is coming!!).
Another day, Mama got home and asked Marco who went to picked him up from the kindergarten today. Marco replied "Pii Nok went to pick me up". (So now Pa Nok is Marco's older sister!!).
One other day, after playing together with Marco and Rieko, Monet changed his relationship with Rieko by calling him "Papa Rieko" (Marco called Rieko papa all the time..so Monet decide to do the same while he already has his own Papa..so this one is "Papa Rieko". He may think "Papa" means a man!!)
Roy is the only one who has got teh family tree concept correctly. He calls everyone with correct relationship. Yai is Yai (his favourite..calling her more than 20 times a day even when he sits on her lap!). Marco is Marco or "Pii". Monet is Monet (he can say it correctly better than when Monet called himself when he was at Roy's age!). Mama is Mama but sometimes he calls Mama by name loudly "Nam"...and Papa is Papa but lately he also knows that his papa is "Rieko". So, he calls Papa by name often as well.
It is already complicated enough for them to know things in 2-3 languages..but the family tree is difficult. Mama still doesn't understand the Chinese family tree when mama's friends are tellign about their family or even Dutch family is mroe complicated than Mama thought. Let's see when the boys go to Thailand the end of this year..anothe rfamily tree story to tell, may be!!

) and it is his story that makes ussmile or even laugh everyday. These are some examples.