Meet EMILY PUMPKIN PIE! She was 7mo old in this picture and we had just gotten her the night before this picture was taken. This was two days before Caitlin's surgery in the underground parking garage of the hospital where my mom had just had surgery.
Visiting Grandma Cathy in the hospital while she still had hair. :) We haven't seen her since all the hair fell out because we have colds and can't risk sharing our yuck germs with her. :( Hopefully we'll be better soon though so we can go visiting!
In the hospital the day after her own surgery. Practicing walking around again. Notice the adorable silky cherry jammies. "Just because you're in the hospital, doesn't mean you can't look good." Plus I think they were more comfortable than the flannel backless things the hospital provides.
Art work created in "Hospital School"
She put the IV pole in front of her wheel chair between the foot rests and started pushing herself back to her room. I guess she was done with hospital school and I was taking too long...
Any extended stay in a hospital means an excuse to put "make-up" on daddy.
I've been meaning to put these pictures and more up for quite some time and then I finally just posted them into a "draft" and now that I have time cause I'm at work, I thought I'd actually post them with an update. Let's see....Caitlin is completely recovered from her surgery and her post surgery infection and is "sick" again this time with a cold. She's doing well in school. She started the Spanish Immersion class last week and this week they only had school on Monday and Tuesday because the rest of the week was for Teacher/Parent Conferences. At Caitlin's conference her teacher told me that Caitlin is the most responsible child in her class. Not really shocking to any of us that know her well-she has an incredibly strong desire to not get in trouble. She's 'struggling' with the language barrier but has already made great strides. She can count to 15 and is working on 16-20 to catch up with the rest of the class (all of whom have been doing this for 5 wks not just 1!) She can sing a "good morning" song in spanish, she knows almost all of her colors and the 4 shapes that the class has been working on. What she doesn't know yet, and will come with time just like it did for her classmates, is what the teacher is saying when she says "line-up" and "push in your chair" and "go choose a book in the library". We've checked out bilingual books from the library to read to her so that she hears that language at home and we've written vocab words on 3x5 index cards to post around the house in their appropriate locations ie.. "La Mesa" for the table..She's still really excited about the program and happy to be learning a new language and I am really proud of her.
My mom is still staying strong and tuckin' along with her Chemo treatments. She had her second dose yesterday (I am writing this on 10-09-09 because the "draft" was saved when I started posting the pictures). All of her hair has fallen out and she's learning how to tie scarves over her now bald head. Luckily she's gorgeous and her head is nicely shaped so bald looks good on her. I miss her a lot and really want to go hug her, but we can't take a chance that she'll catch my cold, so the next visit will have to wait.
Today is Caitlin's best friend Faith's 6th birthday- HAPPY BIRTHDAY FAITH!!! Which means that Caitie's 6th birthday is in just 11 days! Yikes I haven't even sent out the invitations to her party yet! Faith is having a really cool "reptiles" party where a local conservation/rehabilitation group brings a few reptiles to your party for an hour to teach the kids about the animals and their habitat. The kids can hold/pet the animals and learn something at the same time. Pretty neat. Caitlin is going to have a "swimming" party at the local swimming pool during family swim which will also be fun.
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