February/March 2013

Anthony loves to play basketball (or any kind of ball) at the church gym.

We had a turkey one night.

Maggie told me all about bones, fat, muscles, tendons, and sternums. 

Her class was learning about human bodies.
I jokingly said we should bring Anthony in so her classmates could see Anthony's scars from his open-heart surgery. She asked her teacher.
So, we went and did a show-and-tell of Anthony and his battle wounds. :)

Maggie's class was nice, and I think they learned a lot from Anthony.

Kelly went to a dance that had a princess/James Bond theme.

She made a pearl headband, a much more elegant tiara than something flashier.

 Our friends donated movies to Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee.

I like to make kits for parents of patients sent to Seattle or Spokane.

More info can be found here.

Anthony was sick the day after Christmas and ended up being in the hospital for a total of 8 days.

We got to come home on New Year's Day, but went back in after 12 hours because he just couldn't keep his oxygen saturation up.

It was just a nasty virus that our family had, and it affected Anthony and his small airways much worse than it affected the rest of us.

During the peak of the illness, Anthony had a fever of 104.9, after Tylenol.  

We had to do some lukewarm washcloth baths to cool him down.

Scary times.

During that time though, we noticed that the list of movies in the pediatric floor library were very outdated and were movies that Anthony would never enjoy.

So, I put a shout-out to my friends on FaceBook and asked for donations of new/gently-used DVDs.

They came through for me/the hospital!!

 Another Nerf war!

 (not part of the Nerf war, blogger keeps randomizing the uploaded pics)

Anthony loves when Daniel shows him his games, especially anything with Mario.

He has a special growl to tell us he wants Mario.

He does the growl at the store, when he sees pictures of Mario in the electronics department.

 Back to Nerf war

 Even Anthony likes to shoot the darts...up on the table.

 I finished the fort! I didn't do windows like the one I saw on Pinterest, but this was enough work without that.

After all the procrastination, time, and finding 3 sheets to use, I would definitely say that using good old-fashioned blankets works a lot better. Less work and less bulky.
He's liking it though. :)

 First day into Track season.

First 10 minutes of practice, and Kelly comes home with this.

She's healed now (April), but the sprained ankle and nasty flu we had last month, caused her track season to start out really poorly.  She's making up for it now, and is a rockstar on the track.

 For pi day (3.14), we made this non-attractive, yummy pie.

Chocolate mint pie.

 Anthony will be Chief for the Day to kick off the Apple Blossom Festival in Wenatchee this month.

He had fun meeting the Douglas County Sheriff to get ready.

And, sitting in the Sheriff's rig and getting to see the lights flash in the front was cool for him too.

 Some of our Easter-ish decorations.

Kelly rearranged stuff in the dining room.  

The forsythia branches came out (cause allergy issues) and plain branches went up, 

decorated with sequin-covered eggs.

On February 28, we received the best news ever.

!!!!COMPLETE REMISSION BONE MARROW!!!!!

We knew Anthony was in remission from the first month or two of treatment.

But, the only way to be finished with chemo is to have the bone marrow tested again.

Since Anthony had spinal chemo in February, they went ahead and tested his marrow.

We still have another 3 weeks of chemo left, but then we get to be done!!!

One of these days, I'll get Daniel to show me how to get pictures from our cell phones to the blog (again), or I'll get them from facebook to the blog.  There are some gems on there.