End of the Weekend

It's been a good weekend around here. Carter had a great end to the week... Thursday at the pool for playgroup, Friday at the water park, Saturday playing baseball with Daddy, today in his new kindergarten class at church, and tonight at the last Sunday night Hopper's baseball game. It was his kind of weekend! (Thanks to all of you who took him along with you!)

Julia stayed in- and I say with mixed emotions- she is fine with that. It can only be by the grace of God that a 3 year old can watch their brother climb into a van with her best friends and head off to the water park for a day of fun and dippin' dots and just wave and smile. She continually amazes me. She has been feeling pretty good. She still has the jaw and teeth pain and gnaws on her hands a lot. Her appetite has been insatiable, unfortunately her desires are hard to determine. When we do find something though, things are good. Her requests for food come about every 20 minutes, like clockwork. I don't know where she puts it!

She has been fever-free all week. Thanks for your prayers! She is still compliantly wearing her mask, though she hasn't really left the house much. Tomorrow we head back to the hospital. They don't expect her blood counts to be high enough for chemo, but she's due for her weekly physical and labs, so we will see...

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And we had a major breakthrough this week. Look who cleaned his plate!! ....

.......FOUR nights in a row!!!

Those of you familiar with Carter's eating issues know how utterly amazing this is. This is the kid who survives and thrives on water and air.

A little history... He had a severe GI virus for 6 weeks when he was 2 that caused him to lose 20% of his body weight, stop eating, and get really sick. This created numerous issues that combined with his small size, picky eating habits, etc. created a perfect storm. Here's what our meal times used to look like in some earlier attempts at meal times. He spent time in food therapy and was released last spring. They were really a great resource (didn't mean to make it sound like jail!). He's been doing so much better, but this is a first for us. Our little 40lb, almost 6 year old, must be growing :)