Cruisin' Along

Addison is cruisin right along but of course she likes the fireplace. She is walking around furniture now and walking with one hand. The video shows all of this but there are a few tears at the end. When she wants something she wants it NOW! We are still working on patience.

It's never too early...

It's never too early to teach kids to help out around the house. Addison is already working on putting her socks in the dryer. She was a good worker and she was proud of her work!

Cancer...

I started this blog in December of 2004 when I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's. I don't write too much about it anymore because I have a 14 month old keeping me preoccupied with all of my time but occasionally it slips into my mind. What if it returns?

The scary part for Hodgkin's during relapses is patients must undergo a Stem Cell Transplant. Due to this when Addison was born we banked her cord blood. The patient undergoing a transplant has high dose chemo which basically kills the cancer plus the patients immune system. After the transplant you must redo all of your immunizations. Then the patients stem cells which were taken prior to the high dose chemo are administered back to the patient during the roughest 2 weeks. All this is done during a long hospital stay but it usually is the best bet for a cure however there are the rare refractory Hodgkin's patients who are not cured and go on to clinical trials.

I do think about this but I know what Lord has promised in Jeremiah 29:11. Please, pray for Adrienne, Jessica, Bekah, Mike, Darcy, and Steve. All these wonderful people are being treated for Hodgkin's either for the 1st time, 2nd time, or even 3rd and 4th time. They are fighters. I don't even know these people but I do follow their story. Also, check out the Hodgkin's Forum for others.

She finally did it...

Addison has been a bit delayed in her gross motor skills but she didn't seem to start that way. She rolled over by 4 months and sat up by the 6 months but then she just sort of stopped. My theory is she was content in sitting and that also her Grandma walked her around all day. Addison has always liked to walk while holding her hands maybe a little too much. So at 12 months she finally began the army crawl and then on Saturday she finally began pulling up and climbing. When she was 11 months she attempted to pull up but never succeeded after several attempts and never really tried again. Then today the fun has really began. She climbed up to her toy box (basket of toys) and started pulling out toys. Oh the fun she had...

Then by the time Phil came home she was climbing over chairs. What's next?

Swimsuit OCD?

I have a little problem with overbuying swimsuits for Addison. When I am shopping I just can't resist them. I just think they are sooo cute. It might be borderline OCD but lets hope not. If you are worried about throwing money away on all of of these swimsuits don't be because 2 were bought with gift cards and 1 was a gift from her grandmother so I haven't really spent spent any money on swimsuits. So when we go on vacation I won't have to wash any swimsuits.

The hard part was taking these pictures. As you can see I had to distract her by giving her lots of objects to hold and play with. But in the end I got the pictures and all Addison wanted to do was explore in her changing table.

Intense Game

It was a very intense game as you can tell by Phil's reactions. North Carolina just proved to be the better team. There is always next year!

Go Cards!

My husband is a die hard Louisville Cardinal fan. They made it to the Elite Eight. Let's hope it is to the Final Four. They are currently within 1 point of North Carolina.

Update-Well Louisville lost but it was a good game and good season.