Jeremiah at grandma & grandpas apt

Jeremiah and I went and stayed the night with grandma on Saturday night.  She stocked up with puzzles, coloring books, bubbles for the kids to play.  She found a dollar store and went crazy!

Sophia loves her papa!!!!

Mamma's boys!

I turned on some music so the boys could run around and get out their energy.  They had some good dancing, and a few good wrestling matches.  Then caleb got a little too excited and bit jeremiah pretty good.  So every thing came to a screeching hault!  Literally, screeching!  Then they were both ready to sit and be quite for a bit.  They both wanted to sit on me!  So here's the picture of them both sitting on me!

There's also a picture of jeremiahs bite- it hut pretty bad, poor kido!

Hector's new tree!

The cat loves the new cat tree john made foor him!  He plays on it for long periods of time and hides in his little box from 3 wild boys.  Good job honey!!

Graph of dads cancer levels

the solid line is dads cancer level.  The left side of the graph is where he was before any chemo.  The dash lines at the bottum of the graph are what zanghari said are normal levels.  So dads cancer has come way down, but started to go back up already.

Dad will be admitted tomorrow, the 19th at around 11.  He will get chemo for 4 days, then 24 hours after that they will start the stem cell transplant.  This time in the hospital will be 3-4 weeks again.  Keep the pictures and stories coming!

Thanks for sending all the pictures - we love them.  Tami - what a great mini-sermon.  You have a writer's talent.

Vic, Jan, Kali, Natalie, and last but not least, Andrew - thanks so much from the bottom of our hearts for the 12 days of Christmas gifts.  We loved them all.  You are all special and I certainly hope you are all getting well from all the illness going around.

We are now in our apartment until the middle of February at least.  Would love to have you all visit.  Cliff's schedule is - Jan 11 - testing, Jan 18 - meet with Dr. Zanghari - Jan 20 - inpatient in hospital for 2-3 weeks for second round of chemo, then transplant.  Hopefully he won't be too ill.  Dr. Zanghari's nurse said this second round of chemo should be easier than the first which I don't understand because it is a lot heavier dose than the first round.  Don't know how the transplant will work but it should be good because they are HIS stem cells and not someone else's.

Cliff was bumbed out because he will be in the hospital on his birthday - Feb 4.  Maybe I'll have the nurses decorate his room with train pictures and balloons or something.  When we left the hospital the first time Cliff was pretty depressed - as I'm sure I would be too, but I don't know how I would feel having my birthday there.  He will be 71 years old.

Our love to you all

Mom

New apartment

We moved mom & dad into the huntsman apartments on friday.  They will have the apartment for the duration of dads next round at the hospital.  Its a small 2 bedroom, but very sufficient for them.  I ment to take a picture today while I was there, but forgot...next time!

Update from sister big. I added pictures of the apt.