Aug 13th: Round 5

We were admitted at 8:00pm Thursday for pre hydration so she would be ready for the chemo on Friday. We put our heads down, dig in our heels and brace ourselves for round 5. Things went fairly smoothly as far as chemo goes. I could basically just copy and paste Julys experience... I think fatigue for all of us is setting in a bit more now. She got a little “dragony” but not as badly as last time.
I will have to go back though by day timer and see if I can pull out a few more details than that.

Here is a picture of her bedtime meds one night, once we were back at RMcD house.

I have also updated our prayer request list a little, mostly we are still plugging away with the same things.

Aug 7th: Home for a rest

I’m hoping to get away with the old “a picture is worth a thousand words” bit. I have lots to share but no time to share it right now, I’m closing in on midnight now and I have not caught up with half of what I was hoping to.

Helping water the trees, "Some for you, some for me, some for you..."
I hope our doctor does not see these ones.... we have orders about not letting her out in the sun, the drugs she is on could make her skin break down in the sun, plus she is not supposed to have her "line" get wet, and Im pretty sure it was soaked in about two seconds. But it was so nice out while we were home and we had not been out all summer. Sigh.

Dont worry Dr. Lucy, she was only out this once and it was only really for like half an hour tops. Our time home really looked more like the picutres below...

Actually they look too sweet in that one... they looked more like the one below here! With all the snorkle and drool on the screen.

July 28th: Fun at RMcD House

Back to July 28th: Yolanda is up just after Charlotte’s birthday
Charlotte has gotten a couple of donations from young kids (with heart warming stories to go with them) so we wanted to buy something that would be totally fun and that we could share with all the kids at RMcD house. A bubble maker was just what we needed!

....I hoping that one day I will have time to go come back and add in what those stories were but for now I will leave it at that.....

We had a couple of really nice evenings with lots of little ones around to play with. I think everyone had fun.

Here are Charlotte and Kaydee checking things out.

I think Chloe had the most fun popping the bubbles out of everyone... she stayed so focused!

Reese and Yolanda are investigating why the bubbles were slowing down... need more soap mom! 

Adorable Chloe!

I really wanted to take a "Birthday" picture for Charlotte’s album; I am trying to get one with sisters together each year. This year was a little different since we never really had a big party; everything was spread out over the week. So the day we got to go into the MAGIC room I tried to get them ready for picture taking....

I’m not sure if I should be posting pictures of inside the magic room, I would hate to spoil it for any other kids (or parents) who have not been in yet. BUT it’s just so cool that I can’t help it, I will just post two for now.

This is in through the first door. The most amazing murals in here!

Then the throne is in the second little room, princess Charlotte didnt really want to sit around a pose and princess Yolanda would not cooperate at all. So much for my sister picutres! Oh well, later on that afternoon I snapped this cute one of them on the couch downstairs