Good Morning,

The baby is up and so I am trying to get out a quick update before Sharmi wakes up.  Sharmi did not sleep very well because I told her last night that we were going to the hospital again today, and I also told her we were going to the dentist.  She seemed to have bad dreams all night.  I had also put her to bed in her own bed instead of her mickey mouse bed on the floor in our room.  Unfortunately at about 11:00 she fell all the way out of bed.  She fell off of her bed and off of the half pulled out trundle.  She wasn’t sound asleep again until 12:30 AM.

To update you on her limp.  It has gotten better and the lab results from last week did not show any signs of relapse.  I am trying to believe that she is OK,  and I am trying to ignore the urge to think, ” I have heard that before.”  We are grateful that she is feeling better. 

Today we start another series of steroids so it will be a rough week again.  She will also have her first dentist visit.  I personally hate going to the dentist so I was anxious all last night and didn’t fall asleep until 2:00 AM myself. 

Last week Sharmi spent some time at Grandma and Grandpa’s house all by herself.  This was her first night to sleep over at someone else’s house. 

A cute story about Sharmi was that last week I was making capellini pomodoro for dinner and she was helping me chop up the tomatoes with an little hand blender.  That night we were talking to grandma on the phone and she said, ” Grandma I made supper tonight, I made capalini mamadora.”  It was very sweet. 

Chantel is very busy now and she it starting to talk quite a bit.  At Grandma’s house I was trying to put her down for a nap and she kept pointing to a picture of a little girl saying prayer with her dog and kitten. She would point and say, “Kiti, kiti… doow doow.”  She is also showing some strong will, imagine that.  :)  I think she will be able to hold her again against her sister soon.

It is a sunny day in Seattle so we are going to have a great day. 

Love, Cheris and the girls