It was around 12:15AM.... I'm sitting in the living room couch reading and turning down when I hear Nui-nui's door open. Then I see a pair of shimmering and sparkling eyes.... followed by an enormous moon-crescent grin. "I see it..." Nui-nui whispers.... and she points with her tiny fingers at the princess bike sitting in the middle of the living room. 15 minutes into being 4 years old.... and she found her birthday present.
Joyce was happily sleeping already...so she missed that moment. And from that point on.... it was downhill from there.
We both took the day off spend the day with Nn.
But around 5:30AM.... Nn wakes up vomiting her dinner out. It was all over her bed and her clothes. We clean her up...and she felt good enough to down her breakfast.
So instead of San Francisco Zoo... we stay local and go to Happy Hollow. The entire morning... the only thing Nn wanted to do was ride her new bike. But we kept toying with her...trying to surprise her with Happy Hollow. We finally got there and Nn was cordially surprised. Maybe she's old enough to know it's polite to act surprise??
Her one favorite ride was broken. I forced her onto a ride she got really scared of. And she was tired from not sleeping well. By 1130AM, we were done. We left Happy Hollow and headed for lunch, but Nn fell asleep in the car. Moments later... she threw up all over herself.
We didn't have any extra clothes....except for one of Siu Wah's onesies. So we cleaned her up... made her wear a onesie as a t-shirt and went to lunch.
During lunch... before the food arrived... she made me run to the bathroom again... where she hurled all over the bathroom floor. I ended up cleaning up the men's room bathroom floor. Ewwwwww....... Thinking she was better, we gave her some porridge.
We get home...Nn lies down in bed...and within minutes...she barfs all over herself again. Emptying the porridge she just ate. This goes on and on for about 3 more times. We had it.... time to take her to her pediatrician.
And that's how Nn spends her 4th birthday.... drenched in her own vomit while sitting in a doctor's office.
The weird thing was...everything she threw up, she was as lively as any normal 4 year old. So she wasn't exactly sick... she just couldn't keep down any solids.
Poor baby... she blew out the candles on her birthday cake. But the cake went right back into the fridge. What else does a kid look forward to other than cake???? sigh....
That night... Grandma...Grandpa...and surprisingly... Dai Bak came to visit. I guess the night ended well on a high note. But what an UN-Happy Birthday.
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