4th birthday for our eldest son

Our eldest son had his 4th birthday this week. Unfortunately, Luca was quite sick and wasn't in a very good mood and this made it very difficult and embarrassing for us as he was rude to some of our neighbors bearing him gifts. We learnt from his 2nd birthday that when he's sick he doesn't blow out the candles (that time many members of our church and Lisa got quite sick - Lisa hospitalized). We were so thankful to have Rich's parents around to help with the birthday preparations. With two sick children (our youngest was sick as well) it was very difficult to prepare and then get through the party. Our neighours were very gracious about our son's behaviour and helpful when we didn't have enough chairs for everyone (we got some from our neighours). We were amazed that all the neighours we invited came (3 families) and one woman took home some tracts about Christianity.

The next day Luca was so sick we took him to the local private hospital. The paediatrician wanted to admit him into the hospital but we were booked into hotels in Chiang Mai with Rich's parents. The paediatrician ordered a chest x-ray and then prescribed a very strong antibiotic.

Both children are finally recovering but we got the shock of our lives when we came home and saw a big black dog (doberman?) in our front yard. More about this in our next blog update.