First illness this winter

(photo by Isaac)

(photo by Isaac)

(photo by Isaac)

Isabel has been sick in the last week: mainly coughing and a bit of running nose and a few days of temperature. (No, I don't think it's swine flu. ) The good thing is she wasn't whinging or cranky. She was in good spirit and still happy and pleasant - most of the time anyway. We even visited Connie's new baby Tara last Saturday (we did try to keep Isabel away from Tara outside the photo time). Now she is much better and almost fully recovered.

Winter is the test time for our immunity. Daddy and Nanna have got the germs from Isabel (in fact daddy is on sick leave today), but Isaac and mommy are still perfectly healthy (knocking on the wood!). Needless to say, mommy is very proud of passing the good immunity genes on to Isaac.

We are not complaining about the colder weather though. Every time when I was on the edge of complaining, I thought of the hot and humid weather in Hainan and Guangzhou, then I would shut up and become very content about what we have. One of my colleagues and her husband just had one week holiday in Singapore. She said it was sooo hot and humid there and when their plane landed in Sydney and they stepped out, they were extremely happy about the chilly breeze. Our pastor and his wife also just returned after a holiday in Thailand and Singapore. They also said "money definitely can't buy the weather here!".