Angelica’s counts came back too low and she’s scored herself some blood. So, her and Jon are in for a LONG and boring day at the hospital today.
I have more to update on how Geli is doing and what’s up in our world, but time is tight right now…so, I’ll just send you over to RED HANDED PHOTOGRAPHY to see the Family Photo‘s that Tania took of us a few weeks ago.
They are AMAZING!
Tania, BABE!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
We are so blessed to have such amazing people in our lives.
We’re working on shaking things up a bit. Making things look a bit newer, a bit fresher….a bit……well, a bit something?!?
It’s kind of a work in process because we don’t have a massive chunk of time to work it all out at once, but keep watching and little by little we’ll get it all sorted out.
Siah went camping with my parents this past week and had SO MANY grand adventures. He came home excitedly telling me about the horse he rode and then got bucked off…..
Here is my mighty cowboy.
I’m looking forward to sharing some of his other stories with you! Maybe I can even convince him to share some of them with you…..we’ll see!
Hope you have a great and relaxing Sunday! Today we are celebrating Max’s Birth! Angelica is doing the decorating! She loves to organize and plan parties!
Family, Babies, Sunshine and Cake….what could be better?
Angelica went in for her last dose of chemo for this week. She has another 4 doses next week and then two more doses after that and she’ll be done. She was feeling pretty tired yesterday and the day before and so we asked if she could come in early today and get her counts. Her Hemoglobin was at a 95 on Monday and while it wasn’t likely that it had bottomed out, we just wanted to check it out.
When they did the blood work today there was good news, and bad (sort of)….the bad news was that her platelets had dropped from 220 to 146. Still in a decent range, but definitely dropping. Her White Blood count and her neutrophils are both UP, which is awesome as those are the infection fighters. They will be on their way down. The high point of these drugs should start to kick in the middle to end of next week (the nadir is 7-10 days). And her hemoglobin was at 95 which is lower for normal people and even low for her, but that’s exactly what it was on Monday so no need for a transfusion although we are likely looking at either platelets or blood or both in the near future.
(Speaking of blood, I’m scheduled to donate blood on Saturday June 18th…..have you given (if you’re able)? Would you consider it? It could be your gift!)
Other than that, today was a good day for her and that’s amazing. I’m still praying and hoping that we make it through the end of this round with no infections and no hospital stays. Actually, starting right now, I’m going to speak it out…..THERE WILL BE NO INFECTIONS, NO HOSPITAL STAYS…just protection and health!
Judah is growing so fast. He took about 4 steps on Thursday??? I think, maybe it was Wednesday. I don’t remember and then later that day he’s been taking steps and steps and more steps. He is much faster and confident crawling and so as soon as he feels unsure he drops down and crawls, but we will have a walker on our hands and most likely before his first birthday.
He is also communicating with us a ton. Here he is letting us know that he’s done. He’s done eating. He’s done sitting in his chair or he’s done playing on the floor. Anything that he’s had enough of or wants a change, he’ll typically put his hands up with his palms facing up and say “done!”
He gets a little upset with me about half way through, I think because I’m no actually doing what he wants. This child, he knows how to let you know that he’s not happy with you. No worries about him getting lost in the masses. He is very vocal.
I cannot wait for school to be over. I know that as soon as it’s over I’ll be wishing it was back in, but right now, I’m really ready for the summer to start so that things can just slow down around here. No early mornings. No morning meltdowns. No rushing. No lunches to be made…..the list goes on and on and on. I’m just ready for summer. I’m also ready for some summer days. It’s been so miserable, eh? BRUTAL!!!!! What’s the weather like where you’re at, if you’re not from the rainy, grey Lower Mainland!
How do YOU deal with frustrations in your life? Any tips, ideas, thoughts to share, comments to ponder? I’d love to hear from you!
Hope you enjoy your weekend! We have no real plans. It’s a take it easy kind of weekend. I like those.
I’ve had a bit of a tough day today. It’s been coming on for a few days now and I think it’s actually hit me.
I’m frustrated and what’s worse….I’m frustrated that I’m frustrated. How’s that for ridiculous?
My mom and dad took Siah camping for the week and in some ways this week has felt like a vacation. In other ways, I feel like it’s just highlighted how little I’m able to accomplish.
I could tell you all the things I’ve done and you’d probably tell me that I’ve done a ton of stuff, but this is not about the things that I’ve done as much as it is about the things I’ve not done. The things I want to do that get pushed aside as the things I have to do or need to go keeps cycling round and round and round. It’s frustrating!!!
I can say all the right things to myself about how I need to focus on what I’ve done. I can tell myself that it’s just a season. I can tell myself that my babies won’t be babies forever. I can tell myself to stay present and enjoy “this” moment……
Right now, I’m just feeling down. I’m feeling frustrated. I’m feeling UPSET!
It’s okay. I’ll be okay. I’ll make it through, but today……..today was a tough day.
Tomorrow will be better, right?
Judah is 11 months old.
He will turn one year old on June 24th. It’s kind of hard to believe that almost a year has gone by since he was born. It’s been a busy year, that’s for sure! I haven’t been able to just enjoy each and every moment of Judah’s first year in the way that I wish I could have, but it’s okay…..Angelica is alive and that statement right there, kind of puts it all into perspective.
Enough with the deep and serious talk, let talk about something a bit lighter, shall we?
I love little baby hair. It’s so cute and soft and fuzzy. Judah has a cowlick in the back of his head and it makes his hair stand straight up. It’s so SO cute. Up until now, there’s been no need or reason to cut Judah’s hair, and I like to leave my babies hair alone because usually as soon as you cut it, they end up looking like little boys and I already have two little boys…I still want my baby!!!!!
But……it was getting so goofy looking and I just wasn’t sure what to do.
I thought about shaving his head, like the rest of us were doing, but I really wasn’t sure that’s what I wanted to do. I mulled the idea around inside my head over the weekend and by Monday night I decided to go for it.
We had just finished dinner and Judah needed a bath. He is not the tidiest eater. Typically we take him directly from the dinner table and put him straight into the bath…and he has food EVERYWHERE!
Monday night, I figured that I could buzz his head before we bathed him.
Man, this kids is SO cute! (At least I think so!)
He did so good. I’ll admit that I was nervous about how he would handle the clippers and whether he would sit still enough for me to actually buzz his head, but he wasn’t scared of the noise. He didn’t fuss or squirm too much, just played with a few random things that we gave him and in minutes it was all done. Here he is freshly buzzed, just before his bath.
I managed to snap this shot of him on Tuesday morning. I sure love this little boy. I think that in some ways the hair cut makes him look more like a baby….which I’m not exactly upset about. Mind you, he looks like a freaking HUGE baby! You should see him in a pair of footy pyjamas……so SO cute!
Okay, enough of the cuteness talk….here he is!
