Let's see, what's been going on around here with the kids? Zuri and Ezra were sick at the beginning of the week. They both had high mystery fevers, there were no other symptoms and within a couple of days, they were healthy again. Elias still has a lingering cough but slowly, slowly it is fading.

Elias has a Chinese New Year program tomorrow. He is singing a song with his class and holding a lantern at some other part. He just told me yesterday that he needs a traditional Chinese outfit and the costume of a dentist. I was a bit irked but we'll find something that will work around this house. Ezra was so happy that Teacher Kevin wasn't at school today because he's "sooooo hard!" Ayi won't be here tomorrow because she is going back to her old home to see her eldest son.

I volunteered at the orphanage again this morning. It figures my favorite child would be a little boy, wouldn't it? I've named him Justin. :) Anyway, I found out that he is blind in one eye and his other eye has poor sight. He's such a handsome little boy, too! He was the one I wrote about last week that was moaning. He was also moaning this week but not quite as unhappily and yesterday was his second year old birthday! I sang happy birthday to him in Chinese and English. I made sure he got a big bottle this week (because last week he just got a tiny bottle) and we worked on developing some muscles in that piece of skin we call a neck. Tummy time isn't going to do it; at two years old, his head is much too big for that. I've decided he's going to become my special project; I wish I had a medical background. I'm just so sad that I only get to see him once a week!