Where to begin

Lots has happened over the last couple of days. To write about everything would be too much, so I only write the important stuff.

Results Medical Examination
Last Monday, we went to the hospital near our place. We would be informed about the results of the medical tests. We hardly sat down and the doctor started to inform us, that the results, which have come back are very good. Not all bloodwork has returned, but those, which have come back give a very good feeling. ZiXuan does not have any illnesses, is immunized against HEP B and Scarlett fever. According to the results, it appears that he is immunized very well and probably against all childhood diseases. But that will be certain if we get all bloodwork results back. That will be on the 30Th. The scans, echoes and what have you, which have been taken of ZiXuan, were good as well. No abnormalities in the heart and kidneys. What the doctor told us about his right hand came as no surprise and was exactly as we expected. So all in all we are extremely happy.

Creche
Wednesday ZiXuan went to the Creche (children's day care). Just to get used to the idea of being around the kids and carers and not being around daddy and mummy. I took him to the creche and we stayed for an hour. What I saw was very good. He did not interact with the kids, but he did not hide from them. In fact, when one of them came to close, he pushed him away. Suddenly one of the children started to cry because he had fallen. I started to comfort him as Tammy, the carer, was busy with a ten months old baby. When the crying boy went to Tammy (as she put the baby somewhere safe), ZiXuan immediately went to me and started to hug me, as to say "You are my daddy, you may only hug me!"...... Today (Friday), Nina went to the creche with ZiXuan and stayed for three hours. She was asked (beforehand) to be away for half an hour, just so that ZiXuan gets used to the idea of being away from mum and dad. Nina was not very happy to leave ZiXuan, especially as he started to use his fake "I am going to cry" look. But in the end he did not cry. Apparently he did wave a lot in the direction of where Nina left the room, when Nina had allready left. Afterwards they had lunch together with all the kids, and he behaved himself well. So these are good things, but it is still tough on daddy and mummy.......

Speech Therapy
On Thursday, when daddy went to the dentist for part II of the root canal treatment, ZiXuan and Nina went to the speech therapist. She will help us, help ZiXuan to talk. She gave Nina a couple of pointers how to commence something like this. At least all pre-conditions have been met for him to start talking (which we know, because he can say papa, mama and bah [yuck]). One of the pointers to get him to bite properly and suck through a straw is to stuck a piece of bread (with butter and jam) to his inner cheek. Apparently this automatically makes him chew....we will find out if this works. Next week Wednesday the speech therapist is coming to our home to give us more pointers.

Fever
When we all returned home, Nina felt that ZiXuan was feeling very warm, so we took his temperature and we saw the device indicating 39.8 c, which is too high for a kid (even for an adult it is too high). We also noticed, that he did not feel like doing anything, eating anything, nor driking anything, which is very odd for him. We gave him a little bit of paracetamol and this help bring down his fever. But later on it went over 40. This morning he woke up with 37.1 which is excellent. I must admit both Nina and I felt a bit worried, even when the receptionist of our doctor's office said not to worry and come back when ZiXuan has 40+ for over three days, we still were worried. When the fever came down, ZiXuan became more lively again, which was a relieve to us.

ZiXuan at the hospital, waiting for the results.
ZiXuan at the creche.
ZiXuan watching television.