Christmas Party--and the aftermath

After all the husles and bushels of having the tree up, decorating the house (well, I guess we just put the lights up and some garlands:) ) and cleaning the house a bit, the 4th annual 'Christmas at the Chiangs' came and went succesfully:) The gift exchange still opened with how it should be played and seriously, it sounded justtt like last year. Maybe Bry is right, maybe I'll tape the next one and so the following year's we'll just play the tape:)

Party started at 1pm and ended at about 7pm, and pretty much all of the kids were spent! Thank you for all of you guys that came...it was good to see everyone again in the Christmas atmosphere. Too bad the karaoke didn't work...but we did get a little performance (and little encore) from Vats and Chris:)

Mrs. Sales was the only one who brought a camera...so we'll just wait for her to post her pictures:)...Darn...I wish we did a group picture. I know we had a group picture for the 2nd one...can't remember if we did or not for the 3rd one and I have to dig in for the 1st one....oh well.

The aftermath of the party is not the greatest...for us anyways. Kairo started to have a runny nose on Sunday and yesterday(Monday) he had a fever. I'm watching him closely to make sure that his breathing is still okay, darn respitory problem!! It got me so sad when I checked that his temperature was close to 40 C. Last time he had a temperature that high was 3 days before Indie was born and we had to rush him back to the emergency at Children's. Hopefully this is just a mix of the cold season and him being tired maybe. Hopefully all the other kids are doing okay too. Nothing's worse than having to witness your child being sick.

Last night when I lied down with him, couldn't help but cry. I went to his room at around midnite, to check his temperature again and found that he was up, just lying in bed and looking at me. I asked him if he's okay and he raspily answered "yeah"..and when I took his temperature it was nearing 40 C. So I rushed down to get him a cup of warm water and his tylenol. The guy just loving tylenol..heheh...thank goodness for white grape flavour..(btw...what is white grape? don't think i've seen one in store before). He chugged his water and asked me to go lie down with him for a bit. So I did. He asked me to tell him a story about donkey, and I did(btw, the most boring story ever, but he still loves it):) My baby boy seem so grown when I lied down with him. We had a quiet conversations and I sang a bit for him. After that I asked him to put down his cup and offered to put him up onto his trucky bed and he agreed. While all this happening, I was just thinking if things got worse and he had to go to the hospital, I couldn't stay with him because Indie still needs me too. So thank goodness that everything is better now for him.

Brought back really bad memories of having him to stay in the hospital for one week, in the isolation room. And during that one short week, he visited the emergency one night, visited the Operating Room once and scheduled for a Day surgery...and this all happenned when I was 7 month pregnant. In times like that, I sure miss having my family around. They phoned me from Indo almost everyday, heck if this were to happen in Indo , I sure would see them everyday; my parents, my brother, sister, nephews and my in laws. So for you girls that knew about this then and care enough to phone and visitted me, I can't thank you enough. A friend in need is a friend in deed:)

Anyways, that what's happening so far in our house. I hope all the kids that came to the party is doing okay, especially Alexis since her and Kairo kissed and hugged..hahha...Nat, your daughter finally gave in to my son's persistent-ness...heheh....a lesson for Kairo, no means no, but if you wait long enough, it might changed to a yes...hahahha:)
Merry Christmas everyone. Now here's a toast for a wonderful new year ahead!