SHINGLES:
This week Chip had a rash on his hand, and so went to the Dr. to get it checked out. Turned out it was Shingles! Hmm......definitely hope I don't have them!
STRESS:
The Dr. told Chip his Shingles were caused by stress! This tells you how stressful his job is out here. Yet still things are up in the air for as what that means for us. Will we be staying, or will they be closing the office here in China and sending us back to the US early - as in next month? Yes, that is the million dollar question right now for us, and if Stress caused Shingles for Chip, I wonder what it will cause for me if we don't figure it out this week and let me know where I am going to deliver this baby! Yes, Stressed we have been!
SHEDDING of blood:
Yesterday I put Cash in his crib for a time out. He doesn't seem to mind timeouts at all, and in fact was playing nicely by himself for at least 5 minutes - that is until I heard a blood curdling cry - I went running in and saw blood gushing from his mouth! Apparently he had jumped and when he came down hit his jaw on the crib bars, causing himself to bite his lip - it stopped pretty quick, so no stitches or anything required, but he has a little owie on his lip today on the inside and outside, and like to point at it and say "owie"!
SWIMMING:
This is something we do a lot of as we have a great pool at our place, along with a cool baby pool and a nice "hot" pool too. Today we decided to go there in the morning with the kids instead of going to playgroup. Cash, Kees, and Coy all have fun. Well, there were swimming lessons goin on - and we saw yet another weird part of the chinese culture that I just had to share. There were about 15 kids at the lesson, with 1 instructor, and she never once got in the water (note - she was probably age 55+). Maybe this doesn't seem odd to anyone else, but as the kids were at one end of the pool far away from her, I was wondering what she would do when one of them started to drown? Then, it gets better! There was a garbage can sitting at one corner of the pool - i didn't think anything of it until it started to get used - as a pee bucket for ALL the kids to go into - first just one kid got out, pulled his pants off and peed in it - however, then at the end of the lesson before they got into the hot water pool they lined up - both boys and girls, and took turns squatting over this thing - totally gross and also something that would NEVER happen in the US. Boys just pulling trunks off, and girls pulling suits to the side, all intermixed! Weird - altho guess good since we know that noone peed in the other pools!
Finally - all their clothes were just sitting on towels on the side of the pool - after they got done with the warm pool she had another trash bucket with water in it and they all stripped down to being naked and she poured a bowl of water over each of them, and then sent them to get dressed. As they were all getting dressed, she took the pee bucket and went into the locker room to dump it out - leaving ALL the kids unattended by themselves next to swimming pools - i was seeing lawsuits written all over these actions - and yet they all seemed to think nothing about it - such a different place - and yet I like America where we seem much more civilized when it comes to bathroom behavior (don't even get me started on the nake ladies in the locker room - GROSS!)
SECOND TRIMESTER
Finally, I am officially out of my second trimester and into the third and final haul - not sure if it is more mental or actually physical, but i already feel more tired and HUGE each day! I will post a pic soon! Anyways, we are still struggling with boy names so if you have any unique cute ones send them my way!
This week Chip had a rash on his hand, and so went to the Dr. to get it checked out. Turned out it was Shingles! Hmm......definitely hope I don't have them!
STRESS:
The Dr. told Chip his Shingles were caused by stress! This tells you how stressful his job is out here. Yet still things are up in the air for as what that means for us. Will we be staying, or will they be closing the office here in China and sending us back to the US early - as in next month? Yes, that is the million dollar question right now for us, and if Stress caused Shingles for Chip, I wonder what it will cause for me if we don't figure it out this week and let me know where I am going to deliver this baby! Yes, Stressed we have been!
SHEDDING of blood:
Yesterday I put Cash in his crib for a time out. He doesn't seem to mind timeouts at all, and in fact was playing nicely by himself for at least 5 minutes - that is until I heard a blood curdling cry - I went running in and saw blood gushing from his mouth! Apparently he had jumped and when he came down hit his jaw on the crib bars, causing himself to bite his lip - it stopped pretty quick, so no stitches or anything required, but he has a little owie on his lip today on the inside and outside, and like to point at it and say "owie"!
SWIMMING:
This is something we do a lot of as we have a great pool at our place, along with a cool baby pool and a nice "hot" pool too. Today we decided to go there in the morning with the kids instead of going to playgroup. Cash, Kees, and Coy all have fun. Well, there were swimming lessons goin on - and we saw yet another weird part of the chinese culture that I just had to share. There were about 15 kids at the lesson, with 1 instructor, and she never once got in the water (note - she was probably age 55+). Maybe this doesn't seem odd to anyone else, but as the kids were at one end of the pool far away from her, I was wondering what she would do when one of them started to drown? Then, it gets better! There was a garbage can sitting at one corner of the pool - i didn't think anything of it until it started to get used - as a pee bucket for ALL the kids to go into - first just one kid got out, pulled his pants off and peed in it - however, then at the end of the lesson before they got into the hot water pool they lined up - both boys and girls, and took turns squatting over this thing - totally gross and also something that would NEVER happen in the US. Boys just pulling trunks off, and girls pulling suits to the side, all intermixed! Weird - altho guess good since we know that noone peed in the other pools!
Finally - all their clothes were just sitting on towels on the side of the pool - after they got done with the warm pool she had another trash bucket with water in it and they all stripped down to being naked and she poured a bowl of water over each of them, and then sent them to get dressed. As they were all getting dressed, she took the pee bucket and went into the locker room to dump it out - leaving ALL the kids unattended by themselves next to swimming pools - i was seeing lawsuits written all over these actions - and yet they all seemed to think nothing about it - such a different place - and yet I like America where we seem much more civilized when it comes to bathroom behavior (don't even get me started on the nake ladies in the locker room - GROSS!)
SECOND TRIMESTER
Finally, I am officially out of my second trimester and into the third and final haul - not sure if it is more mental or actually physical, but i already feel more tired and HUGE each day! I will post a pic soon! Anyways, we are still struggling with boy names so if you have any unique cute ones send them my way!
3 comments:
Wow you are having quit the adventure! I like the name Crew and it would go cute with Cash. Just a suggestion.
Yeah, definitely don't name your baby Crew! I love the name, just more for my kid than yours... ;) How about Breaker? Madden? Cole? Trace? Good luck!
So much going on in your life right now-crazy. i hope things get worked out quickly for you so you will know where the baby will be born. I hope you are feeling okay and that chip's hand is healing. miss you
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