The last few days

Yesterday we were treated to a lovely spa at Eagle Canyon which is like a development like Dainfern only that the development is still being built. Many tractors hovering around and not as green but there is a golf course. My friend, Christine, the chinese woman who has two daughters, is a developer there and she never thought she'd own a spa but the clubhouse had a large empty space. It has taken her 6 months to convert it, www.senshispa.co.za, it has many chinese elements and is really quite nice. I went for the thai massage and mom for the traditional chinese. Michelle and Charmain also got massages, we'll have to bring shelley when she is back.

After over 3 years, I have finally found a massuer who can crack my back and neck and it felt so good like the tension that you can't get rid off apart from being twisted in funny contortionist positions. Ahhhhh is all I can say. I have booked Loren for Sunday.

Yesterday pm, nate's cough took a turn for the worse, if he got upset, like riley and lucas not sharing toys, he would start to cry then cough badly. At the end of the meal (great chinese noodles by christine), he threw it all back up. Well at least yesterday he had an appetite.

We cancelled the wonder cave excursion today and heade to the dr. Nate has minor croup (the umbrella name for nose, throat and lung problems in kids), another 2 days and he would be heaving like a seal and not being able to breathe then its the emergency ward. Both riley and ethan has had it in the past 4 weeks, in preparation for it, I bought a baby monitor for his room. The dr detected sounds in his right lung and an xray showed it to be early bronchital pneumonia. He is now on antibiotics and a steroid and the coughing has gotten alot worse and its highly contagious so we have to watch for ike (high chance of getting it) and keep him from other kids, so no horse riding and school for nate.

The cold front has crept up on us again, strangely it rained last night (apparently it never rains in winter), today we are at a low of -1 up to 10 degrees celcius. The west of Joburg had even snow. There will be an elec outage from midnight till 6 tomorrow. Ike is bundled up warmly.

Loren is back from Congo tonight. Hope he is over his congested nose.