Hello Everyone,

It is so fun having a two year old!  Sharmi informed me last Tuesday on our way to the park that we needed to remember to take her little brother.  Apparently, I bought him at the store for her the other day.  We played for quite some time at the park and we included her brother in everything, “mommy, pick up brother, he fell down… mommy help brother, that is a big step… hold brother he is tired… help brother get up on the whale… on the bars… mommy you dropped brother…”  Apparently I am not a very good mother.  I didn’t even know I had a son and when I learn that I did I left him at several places in the park and I also dropped him several times.   On the way back from the park she somehow got a second brother.  For your future x-mas cards their names are “D” and “A”.    Tuesday was a good day!

Yesterday was not quite so fun.  We took Sharmi to the hospital again for her standard appointment.  Her labs were good at 1800 something, she got more chemo in  her port and we started her on another series of steroids.  Which, may explain why, at this moment, she is winning and opening and shutting her door for no apparent reason, other than she woke up from her nap grumpy.  Fun Fun.  I have one kid on chemo and steroids and Chantel appears to be teething.  She had a fever this morning of 99.3 and was really cranky as well. 

Yesterday, Sharmi also had an x-ray done on her knee.  Her pain seems to be increasing and she seems to identify her knee as the primary source.  At night her breathing also indicates her pain.  She gasps for air, holds her breath and then grunts the breath out.  Her Tylenol and Codeine cocktail seem to comfort her, but we would still like to know what is going on.  The x-rays didn’t show anything.  We will keep watching it and if it doesn’t get better they will do an MRI.

Good news!  Dean’s boss’s boss’s, boss approved for us to take the kids on the trip.  Now we have to hurry and work out the logistics and get passports, but we are very excited to be going.  This is against policy so I believe it is a miracle, and it also shows that he works for a good company with good people.  Sharmi can hardly wait.  This morning she woke up worried and said, “Daddy, I don’t have a swim suit to swim in the ocean.”  She is also very excited about getting on a plane and seeing “Guyah” (her nanny from California.

Thanks for your prayers. 

Cheris