Having a runny nose didn’t seem any big deal until Yauyau started to run a temperature at 39.5C. So off she goes to see the doctor, and we return with the usual bottles of paracetamol and another bottle of medication for runny nose. I was rather pleased with that new bottle of medicine for runny nose to add to my existing (and quite useless) stock of standby medication. The fact that it may cause drowsiness also makes me a little bit excited as I imagined the kid fast dozing off after taking a spoonful of it.

My girl has grown up; she can use a spoon now! I don’t have to administer the syrup using a syringe and I don’t have to pinch her nose to force the liquid down her throat anymore. What a joy. She took the medicine like an eager kid waiting to feast on a fancy selection of candies. Well, two varieties to b exact. We paraded the two bottles in front of her, and told her excitedly that she is going to have orange juice and strawberry juice. She has to choose which to take first.

“Orange juice!” she replied while stretching out her hand to pick her choice bottle and gulped all her syrup like drinking her juices.

Then she began chanting “Orange juice! Orange juice! Orange juice!” after the whole affair. Wah, children’s medicine must really taste yummy.