The next morning upon return, we had a plan to attend Theresa and Martin’s engagement party.  I went to observe the ceremony at her house on my own.  The ceremony was quite formal with all the Vietnamese traditions, and some of our friends were also dressed in traditional Vietnamese costumes to help celebrate.  After the ceremony and snacks at the house, Robyn, Nela and I came back to our house for a short break before heading over to the celebration luncheon.  Since Connor was still having a nasty cough, I only took Logan with me to the party.

    It was a banquet lunch at a Chinese restaurant, and the food was great.  Logan sat next to Brandon, and enjoyed his company during the two hour lunch.  They watched videos together, then Logan watched Brandon playing his game until Logan asked me to play a game on my phone. 

    At 3pm, I received a text from Stuart telling me that Connor had a fever after nap.  So right after Theresa finished her Karaoke song, Logan and I said thanks to the host and gave goodbyes to everyone and headed home.

    We drove back to the grandparents from San Diego in the afternoon on the 28th.  The boys were excited to see grandparents again, and they spent the afternoon playing with them along with their new toys.  Right around bath time, Logan suddenly threw a fit after fighting for a toy with Connor.  When Stuart asked him to apologize to Connor, Logan began crying sadly.  He continued to cry until he he went to bed.  Stuart and Logan had a talk before storytime, and it turned out that he felt injustice to apologize since it was not his fault to begin with.  This little misunderstanding made the bedtime quite hectic.

   During the day, Connor’s cough had been getting worse.  At 2am that night, he even had a major coughing spell that woke him up.  I then had Connor leaned against my chest to sleep instead and he eventually fell back to sleep without much problems.

    The next morning we spent few more hours with the grandparents while Stuart packed up the car with all of our presents.  We said goodbyes to the grandparents and got on the road shortly after 11am.  Both kids felt asleep, but within an hour, Connor woke up crying and he felt warm to me.  Fortunately. we were able to fish out the medicines in our packed trunk.  After some crying and convincing, Connor took the med and eventually returned to sleep.  Connor had woken up a few times being very unhappy; it was very sad to see our happy child being so unhappy.  There were lots of traffic on the road, and we even saw snow during the Grapevine, so the drive took a long time.  After 7 hours and two doses of medicines to Connor, we finally made it home.

     We were all so happy and relieved to be home.  We had forgotten to give Scottie his stocking before we left, so the boys helped Scottie opened up his presents.  Connor slowly returned to his normal self by dinner time.  Later, we asked the boys their best time during the trip.  Connor immediately said “Choo choo”, then he added “airplane” (in reference to a ride at LegoLand).  Logan thought about it and said “when I slept in the stroller”.