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Running Again

By Margot | May 7, 2008

Sam is fully running again and if you know seven year old boys, you know that it makes Sam very happy.    I pick him up from school each day and he has a huge grin on his face.  Yesterday he said he had a great day. He got a 90% on his math test and Natalie couldn’t catch him at recess.  We have the week off from the hospital so we are scheduling some play dates for after school. Today he will have Nate over and tomorrow Joe is coming over.  Monday he’s going bike riding with Johnny. Yesterday Kate Sessions kicked off Coins for a Cure.  The student council did a little skit at the morning assembly.  The Monacos and I had rewritten it some so as not to scare the kids but in the end it went off without a hitch.   Sam brought in Neil’s big canister of coins today and was very happy to be contributing.  Mrs. Gage is hatching chicks again in the incubator this year and the kids are so excited that one of the eggs is about to hatch.  Last year the boys named the boy chick “Darth Chickey, ” I’ll let you know what this year’s chick names are when they hatch.

Andy is doing well.  His art show was great.  He’s really a good little artist and his teachers have worked with the kids on some amazing projects.  Andy flew through his kindergarten assesment last week and can’t wait to get started, though I know he’ll miss seeing his preschool buddies every day.   He’s been having playdates galore as usual and he and Sammy have been playing a lot together.  This past weekend, aside from Brendon’s birthday party at Pump it Up, we just had a low key weekend which was a nice breather for Neil and I.   The boys and I played some tennis and basketball and we all painted on the easel Grandma Joan gave us on the back patio. If you can imagine all three boys and Mimi in the midst of several different colors of paint on the back patio, you can imagine that it was a messy endeavor.  Charlie mostly just liked sticking his hands in the paint water and splashing it everywhere.

Charlie is still very cute and funny and holds major conversations now adays.  He can sing all of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, though it’s not all intelligible. 

Basketball season starts in early June again and the boys are taking a skills class every Friday night.  They love it, though Sam is itching to start soccer.  He played last night with Neil and he’s getting some moves back.

I am working on my zen mastery ;-) and living in the moment. Neil is working on many different things at once as usual and has some great things happening on the lab front.  Hopeful things.

I’m going to end today with numbers. I picked them up from the hospital this morning when I dropped off the urine sample.  This is really against my zen/ABC principles but I know there are those of you (Meryl ;-)) who are sticklers:

last week’s LDH: 621 (think I posted that last week)

D-Dimer: 509

Vitamin D 59

VMA: 14.3  HVA 22.2  (ugly)

Fibrinogen: 245

Thrombin Antithrombin: 40.1

We’ll get the VMA/HVA numbers back from the sample I dropped off this morning before the scan next week.  Hopefully they’ll have dropped from this week.   Going into a scan with our current VMA/HVA is sort of like going into the championship game with your money players hurt.

This weekend is Andrew Castillo’s birthday party up in Irvine (boys can’t wait to see the Castillo kids) and from there on out, May is packed.

Margot

 

 

 

Topics: Progress Reports | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “Running Again”

  1. meryl Says:
    May 7th, 2008 at 7:43 pm

    Margo,

    Thanks for thinkin’ of me (-: It is awesome how much ENERGY Sam has…plus, I love those high scores in Math!!!

    Hang in there and keep inspiring me!

    L,

    Meryl

  2. Natalies Mom Says:
    May 7th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

    Natalie and I just read your blog. Natalie said that Sam is the “fastest kid she knows. Impossible to catch.” Keep on runnin SAM!!!