Little Cameron

For those of you who have not yet heard, Andy's Cousin's(Sommer)son, Cameron, was recently diagnosed with a Cancer type disease called Langerhans' Cell Histiocytosis or LCH. He went to Devos last week for treatment. The doctor's say Cam is treatable and if he responds well to treatment between 90 - 95% of those kids are cured, so everyone's very optimistic. I've been staying updated through a care page that Sommer and her husband, Mike have been posting on. They're home and have good indication from the way it sounds that Cameron is responding well to his medication and treatment. He had his first chemo treatment last week and they are headed down again this tuesday for Cam's second chemo treatment. He's scheduled every tuesday for six weeks. After that he will get retested and if he is accepting the treatment they will go once every three weeks for a year. I tell you all this to ask that you please pray for Cam he's 11 months old, and he and his family have a long road ahead but they have every reason to be hopeful.

A Victorious Sunday

We had a very busy day, Andy got up early to start prepping to complete the last couple things on the bathroom. He spent the weekend painting the ceiling and the trim with the spray gun which does a great job, but there's so much prep work when your spraying! He put the final touches on the bathroom this afternoon and then I cleaned it this evening so it is officially 100% complete, okay well he still has to put a new doorknob on the door, but he didn't have a locking one here so he couldn't do that today, but here are the results. It's not a very large bathroom, but it's perfect. I love it. And the best part you can't even experience from the pictures, but the heated floor is such a treat.



And the big news is that at noon today I participated in a non-competitive traithalon to benefit the breast cancer support groups in Charlevoix and Emmet Counties. Most of the women involved form teams and each do a leg of the event, so I did the biking portion which was a 20K. A friend from the pool did the 1/2 mile swim and a friend of hers ran the 5k. I had mentioned doing it a while back and then sort of dropped it but about a month ago Andy mentioned it again and encouraged me to do it. I'm so glad he did. I had a really good ride, it was nice to push myself a little. I want to do it again next year, maybe I'd swim if someone else wants to do the biking, maybe Penny? There were quite a few Breast Cancer Survivors who participated and so many people doing it in honor of someone battling the disease or in memory of someone they'd lost to breast cancer. It was a really neat event. Andy and the boys saw me off at the start and made a couple stops along the way to cheer me on, it felt good to have them cheering me on. The event is so non-competitive that they don't really even time you, but since Andy had the video camera at both the begining and the end with the counter on it, we were able to figure out that I finished in just under 50 minutes.

Since the blog world can't get enough photos of my boys here's a little of what we've been up to. We're so glad the weather's nice again!

Kids do the Funniest Things

These pictures were both taken this morning. They were full of it! First Fisher tried nursing his teddy bear because "Teddy wants Milkies right now, Mom," then he tried curling his eyelashes when he found my curler in my make-up bag. What a cute kid.
Then there's my baby who's looking less like a baby everyday. Can you believe what a big boy he's getting to be? He's is so busy! I've always claimed that his brother was a busy kid, but Noah is even more so.

OH, I forgot to tell you....

The nine month mark has brought about all kinds of changes in Noah. He said Mama the other day! It's my turn since Fisher said Dada first. The doctor said he's about 25th percentile, kind of little but he's not concerned, just different than his brother was at this age. He also started climbing the stairs when he's given the opportunity! He's walking along furniture and behind walking toys like crazy, just loves getting around. The other day he was leaning on the sliding glass door and I moved the door and he stayed standing there with his hands in the air (like the door was still in front of him) for about 5 seconds. So cute.

Zoo Pictures

Sunday we skipped town (and church) and went to Detroit and spent an absolutely beautiful day at the zoo! Here are some of my favorite pictures, but there are so many I had a hard time narrowing it down. Enjoy!

Do you get it? Fisher is making a monkey face at the monkey. I know you can only see that he's pulling out his ears, but he also puffs out his cheeks when he does it.

If you ask Fisher his favorite part of the zoo, he'll start telling you about how the giraffe's poop on the floor and make a mess, that apparently left a very lasting impression with the little guy, but it doesn't seemed to have helped move the potty training along. Oh well. I think the giraffes were Noah and Andy's favorite too. I personally really liked the rhinos. They were huge!