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*swallow saliva* ouch!
*swallow water* ouch!!
*swallow yoghurt* ouch!!! ouch!!!
*swallow a mouthful of rice porridge* ouch!!!ouch!!!ouch!!!

That was how bad it was to eat/drink while having Strep Throat & my throat looks way worse than that picture in Wikipedia, & trust me – it felt far far worser (i know bad grammar – expressive license?)

i started feeling a sore throat late Tuesday night & by Wednesday night it was full blown with constant pain & sharp pain with every attempt to swallow anything, plus high fever. Of course, we went to the doc on Thursday morning. Confirmation – Strep Throat – i already had an idea that it was no normal sore throat – i, the semi-expert on having sore throats, knew that much.

With the wonderful aid of antibiotics, i started feeling better Friday night – but the constant headache won’t not go away – finally this morning, i felt more normal.

My darling hubby has been most wonderful!! What would i do without him – sigh!
He stayed home most of Thursday & went to work only in the late afternoon. He also stayed home Friday – partly cos he wasn’t feeling well, i think (he didn’t say) partly it was to care for me.

Thank God Tobias is in the clear – no strep for him!

However, that Wed night he had complained of ear pain (he also has a runny nose & cough for 2x weeks already) – so we decided that since we were at the doc’s we’ll have the doc look at him & we ended up going to the hospital ENT department – it turned out to be no biggie – Tobias just has a very common condition – his Eustachian tube was not draining fluids from his middle ear properly – so it causes pain sometimes – called Ottis Media as i now found out. The ENT felt it wasn’t too serious & gave us some meds to try & told us to make an appointment with the ENT specialist in a week’s time. Our family doc was just being cautious as the last few times we’ve seen him – it was always something to do with Tobias’ ears.

So that’s our drama this week! What’s yours?
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No, it’s not that we have never cut his hair – we normally cut it ourselves with a hair-trimmer/shaver or else we wait till we go back to Singapore & go to the Malay Barber for a cut.

This time i decided to try the Kids’ Hairdresser in the toy shop in Solothurn Old Town – i’ve seen lots of kids line up for their cuts & it seems to be quite good.
It was! It is!

The amount of fussing & squirming is very minimal compared to when we did the cut ourselves or when we did it at the Malay Barber. Maybe cos it was a pretty young lady doing the cut, maybe cos it’s a new thing, maybe he is just growing up – sigh! – my little guy growing up…

Anyhow, here are the before & after pics:

What do you think? Walter thinks it’s still too long – but i really didn’t want it tooooo short as he would look like a little rascal when he has it way too short. It’s all short around the sides & back & i asked her to keep the top a little longer – hoping to maybe grow that to a length where we could comb it – maybe.

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So it has been a fairly good summer with a few very hot days, a few weeks of warm days & some rainy days  – our new pool & new kids tent came in quite handy…

Here’s Tobias enjoying his new (1.7m) pool by himself & with some friends:

Here’s Tobias enjoying his new Bob the Builder tent (we had it in the house when we 1st set it up as it was those rainy days):

The big person in the tent is Carlos who stayed with us for 2x months & was Tobias’ constant playmate 😉

Definitely hoping for more warm days to use the pool…

Sigh! Summer hols are coming to an end – we are going to see about a playschool/preschool for Tobias & i think he will start next week.
It’s called the Kangaroo Club & when i told Tobias the name, he asked,” Am i going there to learn bounce like kangaroo?” 😉
More about that once he’s had his 1st day there – it’s only for 1x morning a week.
Now i have to check how to get to the school.

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