Glad to be home!

We are so glad to finally be at home. We spent the day at home playing with the Kid's Christmas toys in front of the fire place.

Savannah even talked Payton into playing Barbie's with her.

Payton loves his new train.

Savannah made us Cinnamon Rolls with her new easy bake oven.

Savannah showing Payton how to play Webkinz.

Payton talking to Grandma on the phone.

Had a long day and I'm starting to get tired.

Payton has done really well at home. You can tell that he get's tired easy. I think that he is just so glad to be out of that hospital. We know that Payton's counts are starting to get low, so we are keeping him in. Hopefully, we can stay out of the hospital. We had a great day today.

Payton getting Chemo Drug Doxorubicin!

Day 2 in the hospital!

I like cookies for breakfast. I like that Mom and Dad will let me eat whatever I want whenever I want.

Day 2 at the hospital. Payton got his chemo late last night and everything went fine. We are moving up his chemo today, so that we can go home early evening and wait for his counts to drop. He only has two more treatment cycles to go. Payton slept in today until 11:30, he was pretty tired. He has been playful and has wanted to play with his bouncy balls. Payton is looking really good right now and has filled out a bit. He has chubby checks, tummy, and legs. We are thrilled to have him looking so good.

Back to the hospital for another round of chemo! (#8 and two more to go)

Savannah and Payton were exhausted after waking up so early on Christmas.

We are back to the hospital today and getting ready for another round of chemo. When we pulled up to the hospital Payton said “no nurse, no doctor.” We have been hydrating Payton prior to him getting his chemo. Already, we are on our second noodle since Payton managed to pull the first one out. Payton is still not liking the nurses to “hug his leg.” I think it’s his one way of showing he has control over something. My sister volunteered to watch Savannah since she is out of school and doesn’t like being here much. She has been so great.

It was so great having Christmas at home. Our kids are at such a fun age. Payton and Savannah have had fun playing with all of their toys. Last night we stayed up and watched the Christmas Story with the kids next to the fire place. Savannah was exhausted since she got up so early, but Payton watched the whole movie without ever moving. Payton was always such a busy body before this happened. We couldn’t ever get him to sit down and watch a movie.

I Just wanted to write a few cute things about Payton that I don’t want to forget. Payton likes to eat Clementines, “white” ice cream, “Joe’s” hot noodles, and have milk @ bedtime. He really likes to watch the show Caillou (I think he can relate to Caillou’s bald head). He also thinks everything is a rocket ship right now. He climbs on everything and pretends to drive his rocket ship; like everyone’s Christmas presents, pillows, mom and dad’s lap.

Christmas Day!

Kids had a great Christmas! Payton was so excited, everything that he opened he would say “Oh, Oh”. Payton and Savannah could hardly wait to rip into their presents this morning. Savannah woke up @ 3:30 this morning and wanted to open up her presents. Finally at 6:30 she said “that’s it, I can’t wait anymore, everyone get up!” They both enjoyed opening up their presents and got lots of fun things. We love and miss everyone.

Home for Christmas!

I took Payton back to the clinic on Friday to have his counts rechecked. Payton’s counts were just barely high enough to start another round of chemo. Dr. Bowman our oncologist said that he didn’t see a problem if we wanted to wait until Wednesday the day after Christmas to start the next round of chemo. We decided that it would be really nice if Payton felt well for Christmas. And we also considered his history of ending up in the hospital with neutropenia and we didn’t want to chance that we would end up back in the hospital. We are really excited to all be home for Christmas and have Payton feeling well. Payton and Savannah are so excited for Christmas they can hardly wait.

Can't Wait for Christmas

Payton has been getting really excited for Christmas this year. He has been carrying around his Christmas presents and can hardly wait to open them. Payton decided to open the corner of one of his presents the other day and told me that he peeked and saw that it was a plane. I taped the present back up. Since then Payton has been carrying around the same present telling me “mom this is a plane”. This morning I awoke and started getting ready to head to the hospital since Payton was still sleeping. While getting ready, I heard Payton in the other room awake and talking about a plane. I walked in and found that he had decided to open up his plane. I guess it is too hard for a 2 yr old to wait.

We went to the hospital today to check Payton’s counts and found out that his counts were not high enough to start the next round of chemo yet. We are now supposed to go back on Friday to check and see if his counts are high enough then. Payton is also due to have an EKG on Friday to make sure that he doesn’t have any damage to his heart from the chemo drugs. Although we are really anxious to finish up with all of this, by pushing it off to Friday, it should almost guarantee that we should be out for Christmas.