Tuesday, May 18, 2010

We Love the Hospital?????

Tru had her last chemo treatment last Wednesday. Yeah!!!!! We are all so excited to have that behind us. She will go back in a month for x-rays and an MRI to make sure everything is healing the way it should and then once every 3 months for a while. We are pretty confident that it is gone for good now. This lovely lady (above) is an angel sent straight from heaven! She spends her days playing with kids and helping them learn to cope with their illness and treatment. I can not say enough about how amazing she was with Tru.
This is Tru's doctor. Dr. Abraham. She was also amazing!
This smile is priceless to me, and it was a long time coming. When her treatments started she was screaming right about now. Thanks to Rochelle (the play therapist) and some awesome nurses Tru now smiles through this whole process.
And of course, makes plenty of faces.
Isn't that kinda creepy? Ya, I know.
The nurses had a little "end of treatment celebration" for her. She thought it was her birthday and asked me later when her cake was coming.
Center of attention...her favorite place to be.

So after this little goodbye celebration we left thinking we were done with the hospital. Apparently Tru had not had her fill.





On Saturday we came back...for a sleepover party!
Tru got the stomach flu. No big deal right...wrong. Apparently when a kid with Diabetes Insipidus gets the stomach flu it's a trip to the hospital.
Again with the faces...I swear this kid will have no normal pictures.
If only every day life could be filled with doting nurses and wagon rides out to the car....

Monday, May 3, 2010

The Blessing


Okay...so this always happens to me. Whenever there is an event where you are going to be taking a lot of pictures, my kids will wind up with some facial discoloration. Either a scratch, red eyes, eczema, you name it they will have it on their face. As you can see, today was no exception.
Avi in grandma Thomas' blessing dress.
...and Tru in grandma Thomas' blessing dress. Cool to have them both wear the blessing dress their great grandma made them. In the pictures below you will see Tru wearing the blessing dress my mom made for either Hannah or I. Must have been Hannah cause only she could have been a fat enough baby that her blessing dress would fit a three year old. Ha ha Hannah...I love you anyway.

3 sisters....I swear we look nothing alike.
Why
can I not get
one picture where she is smiling like a normal child?
Ahh...sisterly affection. I think this sums up their relationship to this point perfectly.