Last Sunday, we attended a very beautiful and joyous wedding.  It was David and Jess’s wedding.

We have known David for a number of years, dating back to those OCF (Overseas Christian Fellowship) days when I was still in university.  David has somewhat been a special friend to us in that we have *watched* him grow during all these years.  I have even served in the same committee as him!  It was such an honour to be able to attend his wedding and to get to know his beautiful bride.

The wedding has brought together many many friends, especially those from OCF.  I had the chance to catch up with many of the friends whom I have not met in a very long time. It was so good.  The ceremony was very meaningful — the couple put a lot of thought to the songs and bible verses, and the message was very good too. Robin and I have truly enjoyed the wedding.  As for our boys, they were with their grandma and that was also why we could enjoy ourselves!  Here’s the happy couple:

Here’s us with the happy couple:

May God bless both of them richly.

Over here, we have a long weekend over Easter, meaning, the Monday after Good Friday is also a public holiday for us.  What more, it is school holidays for all the students too.  Calvin is off school for a good 2 weeks.

We had several activities lined up over the Easter long weekend — one of which was a  birthday party and the other was a dinner invitation.  We did not make it to either activities. Calvin was sick.

The boy started to throw up at around 2.30am on Saturday morning.  Not only did he throw up, he also complained of a headache.  He looked really sick.  The vomiting was happening at every half hour which meant he was not able to keep any liquid down and that also meant that he could not sleep at all.  I suspected he had gastro, but the headache made things a little more worrying.  I rang a health line and was advised to bring Calvin to see a doctor if his vomiting did not stop within 4 hours.  It did not.  So I took the boy to the children’s hospital at 6.30am while Robin stayed home with Athan.

Again (Calvin went to the hospital before when he was younger due a dislocated elbow), the hospital staff impressed us with both their skills and care.  They are really really good at what they do.  Anyway, the doctor confirmed that Calvin had gastro.  He then started Calvin on gastrolyte drink (green) every 10 minutes and I had to record if he vomited etc. Calvin hated the drink and he was still throwing up every half hour.  He was so tired but could not sleep.  Poor boy.  I was relieved in some ways, to know that it was gastro he had, not something about his head! Apparently, the headache was due to dehydration. And, we were told that the hospital has already seen numerous cases of gastro!  The bug had come early this year.

More and more kids turned up at the hospital with different problems as the time passed by, and it was really noisy.  Calvin requested to go home and the doctor agreed.  We went home after spending about 2 hours at the hospital.  The interesting thing was that Calvin remembered we were supposed to go to a birthday party that morning and he said he wanted to go!  And, he said he won’t eat too much so that he won’t puke! How innocent.

Anyway. The vomiting stopped by late afternoon on Saturday and he had no other symptoms.  Thank God! Mr Athan seemed to have been spared from the bug for now.  Gastro (gastroenteritis) is a very common childhood illness and it is very contagious.  We tried to keep Calvin away from other kids and his brother for a few days, and so we were stuck at home the whole long weekend.

This afternoon, I went to a afternoon tea at Calvin’s kindy.  I have to say I had a very enjoyable time there.

The parents were all invited to afternoon tea for a very special reason.  Well, to celebrate end of term 1! Yay! How time flies, it has been 10 weeks of school for Calvin already. The weather was perfect for a afternoon tea outdoors — where the children played.  All the food was prepared by the children!  I was impressed.  There were pikelets (little pancakes) spread with butter, fairy sandwiches, scones and biscuits.  The children were even asked to serve us with tea or coffee!

Calvin was so eager to show me his class and the play area.  He brought me around the place and pointed out everything to me like I was a tourist. 🙂 I just followed him.  I was only allowed t sit and eat after the *guided tour*.

I also have very nice chats with a few of the mums.  It was such a nice opportunity to get to know  them.  The turnout was great and I was so glad I went. After the food, we went into the classroom.  The school principal came and said a few words to us — reinforcing that kindy education is important and how he was impressed that the kids have already set into a routine and able to listen and follow instructions.  The teacher also gave a little speech where she shared that the children had no problems adjusting socially and in the classroom.  She has also written comments for each child as well as left a section for us to give her feedback.  After that, the children presented 3 songs to us and then they were handed their folio which contained all the work that they have done and learn in the last 10 weeks.  I looked through the folio with Calvin and I was very very proud of my little boy.  He has indeed improved in many areas and I know that his teachers have done a great job with him.

The only thing that I regret was that I forgot to bring my camera!

There is definitely a flu bug going around ….. lots of people that I know of are currently down with coughs and colds. Yikes! Our own Mr A happens to be one of the victims, unfortunately.

He had a runny nose for a few days last week and then on Monday evening, he began to develop a fever and a even more runny nose.  His appetite dropped at dinner and was rather cranky for a while.  By the next morning, he had *sticky* eye.  Yup, eye infection.  Robin brought him to the GP and was given a script for a anti-biotic eye drop. It has been a HUGE struggle for us to try to put the eye drop into Athan’s eyes.  He screamed very loudly and shut his so tightly that it was near impossible to peel open it. Robin had to hold him down while I tried to get a drop into each eye.  It is all about timing.  I should also add that we sprayed a saline based solution into Athan’s nose to help unblock his blocked nose. The boy screamed like there’s no tomorrow.  Well, who can blame him? It must be so horrifying for him to have the eye drops followed by a nasal spray!  I really felt sorry for the boy, but we have to administer the treatments to help him get better. There has been some night waking too, due to blocked nose and dry throat. Poor fellow.

Today seemed to be a better day for Athan.  The fever seems to have gone and his nose is not runny any more.  His eyes have cleared up beautifully too. He is much happier, so are we.