There was an update that I wrote in November that Michael never put out there, but I'm going to get on his case and hopefully, he'll put it up along with this one. Hopefully, they both will go up there maybe like tonight or this weekend since he does have the whole week off.

I hope everyone had a very nice Christmas and New Year. Ours wasn't all that pleasant. Nicholas has a virus in his mouth right before Christmas and we ended up not going up to Oregon because of it. He was very fussy and cranky. His tongue was filled with cold sores and also a few around his mouth and under his mouth. He would not drink anything besides apple juice so for about five days, all he had was apple juice. Michael had the flu also at the same time when Nicholas was sick so that didn't help either. I had and still have the cold (or whatever it is that's making me feel this bad). Nicholas was also very sticky during the time. He would not want anyone besides Mom and thought of Dad as the bad person because he was always the one with the medicine. He didn't like drinking the antibiotic at all. He had the virus for about a week and in the middle of it, he took the medicine and poured it all out of the bottle. It has a childproof lid on it, but I guess it wasn't all that child proof after all. We ended up getting him another one but because the insurance would not pay for it, we had to pay the full price which wasn't that bad, luckily. Teach me never to give him a medicine bottle to play with even though it has a childproof cap on it. He had a fever for the first two days of this virus and was very cranky. Both Michael and I did not get any sleep because of it and Michael was sick at the time. They both got a little bit better by Christmas. Somehow, Nicholas associated the pain to milk so after he recovered from the virus, he would not drink his milk at all. I tried and tried, but every time he saw his milk bottle, he would shove it away. On Christmas day, (maybe because he knew it was Christmas) he drink half a bottle which really made my day because he did not have any milk or solid food for about five days before that. He was getting so skinny. The doctor said that we had to make sure that he got lots of liquid so that was all we really cared about while he was sick. So we gave him all the apple juice that he wanted. I guess he got use to it and didn't want his milk anymore. After the virus was gone, he ended up with the cold and so did Michael. (I think I gave it to the both of them.) So from having a mouth that hurt, he went to a nose that would not stop leaking. It was pretty bad. He was just miserable for about two weeks. (Probably tells you what a holiday we had) He would not drink he milk even though his mouth has healed until last Thursday or Friday. For a while there, I thought I would never see him drink another bottle of milk. For about two weeks, all I ever saw out of him was a cranky face and tears all the time. He looked so miserable. I was wondering throughout the whole thing when I would be able to see my smiling and sweet little boy back. This weekend, he was a lot better. He's almost over his cold and he's drinking his milk again. Now, all he wants is his milk and he's looking a lot better. He's smiling and running around like he use to and getting himself into all sort of trouble again. That's okay because I love to see this Nicholas than the one two weeks ago.

Christmas was spent at home because Nicholas, Michael, and I were all sick and so was New Year. Michael spent New Year's Eve putting up the tents for my younger sister's wedding and I just spent it watching him and Nicholas. Afterwards, Michael went home with the baby and I stayed at my mother's house for dinner. After dinner, I drove home, but stopped to get Michael some food. I went to a Vietnamese restaurant that he liked, but they ended up being closed. As I headed out to make a left turn at the light when it was my turn to go, the scariest thing happened to me. As I was making my left turn and in the middle of the intersection, I heard this loud noise. It was the sound of someone slamming on his or her breaks. I looked to my left and there was this car coming straight at me. All I did at that moment was stare. I did not step on my breaks nor did I step on my gas to move my car out of the way, if possible. All that was running through my head was "Oh, my god. This person is going to hit me!" The car came within literally a few feet from hitting my car on the driver side where I was. After I realized that I was not going to get hit, I continued to make my left turn and continued my way, but for about twenty minutes after that, I was still shocked. I was so shaken up that everything was a bit blurry to me. My head was blurry and my neck was tinkling. I have never been that scared in my life and that close to maybe getting seriously injured. That car would have hit the driver side directly and I have no idea how seriously injured I would have been if it had hit me. All I can say right now is "thank whoever is up there for not allowing that accident to happen!!!"

My younger sister's wedding is this weekend and there are a lot of things to do. Michael took the whole week of to help them with stuff but I'm not sure what else Michael can help them with besides putting up the tents, which they have already completed. Me, I'm taking this Thursday and Friday off since I'm the head of the caterers. The reception for my side of the family will be this Saturday, but there the dinner the night before that on Friday. I just hope everything will go okay. Oh, yeah, by the way, we got Nicholas a cute little tuxedo because he's the ring boy and his aunt wants him in a tux. Oh, he's going to look so cute. I think he might look cuter than the groom himself!

Well, that's all for this month. Chinese New Year is coming up so I think next month's update will be quite interesting with the wedding and new year. Talk to you guys next time.