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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Some days I feel like the Annette Benning character in American Beauty when she is chanting to herself “I will sell this house today, I will sell this house today, I will sell this house today” as she’s furiously scrubbing the dirty counter tops and sweeping the leaves. I am sometimes gritting my teeth to […]
Quick Numbers Post
Sunday, August 24th, 2008VMA 7.3 = Normal HVA 10.1=barely high. Hallelujah!
MIBG Scan is Friday of this week. Injection Thursday.
Facts learned by Sam at SeaWorld camp last week.
“Did you know that when it’s dark in the water Dolphins find their food by sound?”
“There are two kinds of tall penguins. The king penguin is kind of skinnier and the emperor penguin is […]
SeaWorld Camp This Week/Good News-Bad News
Monday, August 18th, 2008The boys at the end of tennis camp last week.Left to right: Beau,Andy, Grant,Sam,Mack
Sam and Andy loved tennis camp last week. They came home every day excited about the all of the games they played (Jailbreak, something called Wolf and several others). This week is their second camp of the summer, SeaWorld Camp. Charlie and I dropped […]
Happy Birthday Charlie!
Monday, August 11th, 2008Charlie is two today! He had fun at his party yesterday and will open his family presents tonight when Neil gets home from work. A few quotes from our little boy might give you some insight into his personality:
“Mom, what doin’?”
“I’m folding laundry Charlie, what are you doing?”
”I’m doin’ whoa! Watz this!” -launches self down […]
Good Cats
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Boys and Dad at the park after water balloon fight
VMA/HVA last week were 10.6 and 13.9 so HVA is on the way and VMA is holding steady.
I dropped the boys off at tennis today and Coach Joe said they are going to grow out of their rackets pretty quickly with “their talent.” That was really […]
What We’ve Been Up To
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Neil and boys at the Nighttime zoo
All of us saying goodbye to John and Sock at the airport
John, Sam and Neil at Paradise Point Hotel
Everyone is doing well. Sam has great energy and has been eating well. His weight has stayed steady at 24.4 kilos (most he’s ever weighed).
We had a great time last week […]
Childhood Cancer Act Signed Yesterday
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008President Bush signed the Carolyn Price Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer act yesterday and the beautiful Eden Adams was there to see it happen. See the awesome article below.
I don’t want to sound complainy and say “finally” but this has been the School House Rock bill singing “I’m Just a Bill, Sitting here on Capital Hill” […]
Great Week Off Chemo
Friday, July 18th, 2008Sam with his cake
Boys with the Casitllo Gang at Legoland
Sam’s volley
Andy readying for killer forehand
Sam “dropping in” to mini bowl at skatepark
Charlie skating
Sam has had a great week. The boys have been going to tennis clinic every morning which they are liking a lot, then swimming on Monday and Wednesday. We have a […]
Eight
Monday, July 14th, 2008Sam turned eight today. He had a big weekend. Cupcakes and two baskets at Friday night’s basketball game, lunch out with Dad yesterday, laser tag party yesterday afternoon, home for a late night swim with his brothers and all his new pool toys and today, we went up to family day at the park where he went down the slip […]
Happy Pre-4th!
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008The boys are doing fine. They’ve gotten over their coughs are back to regularly scheduled summer. Sam and Andy have been taking some desperately needed swimming lessons this week. They are both strong swimmers but have no form or function whatsoever. I was chastising myself after watching their first lesson - thinking to myself “How […]
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