Chinese New Year - Happy Happy

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!  Wishing you all a prosperous, joyful, lucky and healthy year for 2016!

All Over Hives

Muimui has been having some funny rashes around her mouth lately which we think is due to food sensitivity.  And suddenly one day, she got all-over-body hives!  We don’t know what is causing it.  We racked our brains out to think of things that she may be sensitive to.  Soap?  Detergent?  Seafood?  MSG?  Food coloring?  Soy?  I dunno.

She was having fever as well and cold too.  I remember getting hives on my leg/torso area for a couple of days and I had no clue what that was about but it did go away on its own.  Poor Mui-jai, so itchy all over. We had to put on hydrocortizone cream and we gave her Benadryl every 6 hours as it did help a bit.  After 3 days and the hives wouldn’t let up, we went to see the doctor and was told to give her 5mg of Reactive non-drowsy kind, once a day.  It's better for her (no sedative) and can be used long term.

Muimui was scratching her face so badly that it looked like impetigo was forming so I used a home remedy with polysporin.  We used it 3 times a day after washing her face and peeling off all the crusty bits off.  After about a week, it looked much better and no oral meds were needed.  During this time, we were considering buying a new mattress and dust mite covers for all her bedding since I remember the allergist told us that she has a dust mite allergy.

Update - after 3 weeks, the hives went away finally.  We stopped the Reactine and the hives stayed away.  Thank goodness!  The doc informed that it may have been a viral thing and she may not have been allergic to anything after all.  We can only guess.

Connor Bday Party

Both Muimui and Beeps had a fun time today, attending Connor's 5th birthday party at the gymnastics center.  Unfortunately, due to Daidai's fight with his nap, we left the house late and only arrived 30 minutes into the party but they had a grand time anyways.

There was lots of chicken wings, noodles and cake for everyone. Too bad Muimui had a choking episode and was really affected by it.  She was shaken and really angry which involved a full tantrum session.  We took her into a separate room until she calmed down.  After that, she enjoyed a huge slab of cake and everything fine and dandy.  

No Kiddies! Shopping Day.

What?!?  Another bday?  Those dates sure come around fast.  Both Rich and I took a day off and spent the day shopping at the McArthurGlen outlets in Richmond.  Just us.  No kids.  Yay!  We've never been there before so it actually felt like we were on vacation.  

We shopped for 4 hours straight.  We even missed lunch because we didn't want to leave!  We ended up eating at a Beijing restaurant around 3pm for lunch and since we ate so late, we decided to watch an early movie and have dinner afterwards (instead of eating dinner then watching a movie).  

We watched Star Wars: the force awakens, the 6:45pm show.  Lucky we got to the theatre super early because if we got there any later, there would be no shows left!  Pretty much every show that night was sold out already.  Crazy.

We had dinner at the Keg and had a super size prime rib.  It was a fun day, just hanging out together.  It was as if we were still dating... remember those days?  

After Xmas Pics

After the Xmas celebrations, we usually let the kids open the gifts slowly, one-by-one so that it feels like it is Xmas again when they actually get to play with it.  Here are some pics of the kids playing with all the toys they received.  With exception is Daidai where he got to play with all of his new pets at the same time.  Man, he loves those dogs and cats.  Thanks Uncles and Aunties for all of the gifts!

Christmas with Dang Family

Merry Xmas, from the Wong, Dang, Leung and Lin Family.  It was a multi-family celebration this year, which took place at Justin's condo.  Lisa made so much food (shrimpies, roast and ...can't remember) and everyone brought a dish as well.  Alcohol was free-flowing and by the end of the night, I think we went through 6 bottles of wine?  It was terrific!  Thanks Lisa and Justin for hosting this year.  

Christmas at Sierra

It's the annual Sierra Xmas party today and we were all excited to go.  Last year there was arts and crafts, a magic show and the awesome Santa giving away gifts so the kiddies really wanted to go.  

It was raining so badly that we got there 20 minutes late.  Just in time for us to take off our wet coats, find a seat and then watch the show.  They even ordered new pizza for all the families who arrived late (like 4 other families).  Yummy fresh pizza.  Thank you Sierra!

School Xmas Concert

We watched the 2 girls participate in their school Xmas concert this year.  Each class prepared a performance of songs, skit or dance.  They both stood in front of an audience of around 100 people without being nervous at all.  I'm so proud of both of them.