We are really on a roll here with bicycle-related content!
Mai-Mai pedals his red ride everywhere we go. He's grown fast in the past couple months, and today both he and Jonathon registered for fall preschool. Mai-Mai's been saying, "I is go 小班！" (How do you like that sentence, half-English, half-Chinese with fledgling grammar...he means that he's going to first-year preschool class.)
This guy has transformed from my two year-old adversary into my almost three year-old best buddy. He is helpful, reasonable, polite, and cooperative.
Any statements about my children's behavior come with a crucial "most of the time" disclaimer!
Today, he's not been happy. It's only 93 degrees, but already Mai-Mai's developed a nasty case of heat rash all over his body -- the worst on his face. He looks like that fourteen year-old boy with the awful painful acne and you just feel sorry for the kid. Three extended bucket baths each day should cool and restore his skin soon.
I love this video. It's a memory of what I do many mornings in this season of life -- a trip to the vegetable market with my little boys, and hanging out with my good neighbor friend Yang Cong and her son Rui-Rui.
counting the graces
thank you Father for
sympathy-love notes/calls from my siblings
assurance "you're doing a good job at Tuesday night English corner and we like it"
lily and elegant vase from two really cool local sisters
running water
cool watermelon
meeting Qu Ya, who I've passed on the sidewalk so many times, and now we're finally friends
shared wisdom from expat moms who have homeschooled before me
just jolly thinking of Drew rafting on the river with coworkers on this beautiful day!
Auntie Wang to help when guests come -- she saves me an entire afternoon of prep and a late night of cleaning up
the knowledge: if I get nothing else done today besides loving and caring for my children, it was a wonderful and worthy day
realizing that I can never become a Chinese person, of course! and that's alright
Loved the biking video, how precious! Your Chinese sounds great Rachael! Thinking of you today.
ReplyDeleteHey Rach! From what I can see in the picture the rash on Mai Mai's face doesn't look like heat rash- too blotchy. I would think of either an allergic reaction to something either eaten or contact (little hands to all over).Try some liquid diphenhydramine (benadryl) and perhaps a topical like 1% hydrocortisone cream. The other option could be a virus like Fifth's disease which is a very common self limiting virus in childhood. The benadyl and cream will still help and perhaps check a temp in the late afternoon. Without a bathtub, you could try making a thin paste with corn starch and sort of plaster it on him without rubbing. Let it sit for a bit and then rinse off. Should be very soothing. You could do it outside- start a corn starch mud ball fight ;>. Use a cheap kiddie pool to wash off kids (yeah run the corn starch through the hair, too) and rinse out clothes and you have three things done at one time!
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