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This weekend Adam turned 30!!! Aashini LOVES birthdays! - even if they aren't hers! She gets so excited about singing and blowing out candles... and cake! Well, I made a strawberry cake... it was a mess! I messed up a lot of things with lack of ingredients and lack of the right sized containers - haha! It was still pretty good though... I love Aashini's face in this picture :) She had fun helping blow out the candles :) That evening our friends Joe & Amberley came over to watch the girls while we went to the mall :) We painted pottery, played some air hockey and some other hockey game & went out to eat :) It was fun! Happy 30th Birthday Adam!! :) Please lift up Adam right now - he has dengue now and isn't feeling so good :(

Dengue is not cool! I'm not a fan of mosquitoes. The past couple of weeks we have been fighting dengue. If you want to read about dengue then click HERE . (That is a picture of the Aedes Mosquito - the one that carries Dengue). Aashini's school called us last Monday and told us she was feeling bad and we should come get her. We went to school and one of the classroom helpers was standing in the lobby holding her - she looked pitiful!!! We took her home and held her while she watched some cartoons. Her fever got REALLY high. At one point it jumped up to 106 and we quickly took her to the shower and showered her off and gave her a Popsicle. She got down to 104. (The next couple of days she stayed at 103 and 104 - WITH Tylenol - it was quite scary.) We took her to the doctor that night and he said he thought she had Dengue, so we got some bloodwork done to check for Dengue and to check for some other things. The bloodwork confirmed Dengue. Since Dengue is a virus, the...