Countdown….. October 16, 2011

until we are a family of five.  Next Monday is my planned C-Section.   We have spent the last few days getting the last minute things done…..washing swing covers, cleaning the car and moving car seats around, etc.  Scott has helped tons and has even been able to get quite a bit of firewood cut and split for the winter.  I think we are ready, in the technical sense, of being ready for this new life to join our family outside of the womb!

Scott took this past Friday off for us to do nothing, which is about what we did.  Aside from my Dr’s appt and a trip to Yagoot, we took the day off from life and even took a nap.  It was a very nice and very needed day of nothingness.  We’ve tried to have a day like that here or there over the past year and it just hasn’t panned out.  But it did!!!

Last Sunday, October 2nd, we had a very fun birthday celebration for McKinley.  She turned 3 on October 3rd!!!  We had a great time celebrating her life and enjoying friends and family at her carnival party.  A special thanks to my brother in law for taking a few pies in the face and to AJ Yorio and Zack Leopold for being our own special carni people!  McKinley seemed to enjoy the day and our hearts were full of joy celebrating her health and normalness that she has been experiencing.

She has been doing very well.  We are now on 100% chemo and her counts are right where they want them.  Last time her ANC was 1240!  We have a lab draw again this Thursday and she is to get IV Vincristine on Friday (it is usually on Monday but we have about a 9 lb conflict arriving on Monday).  As long as nothing happens, we should be Children’s hospital free for about 4 weeks!  Praying we can all stay healthy and home this winter!

So, I wrote this blog before I went into labor on Tuesday morning at 1:45am.  Next post is about baby brother……

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