GO STEELERS!

HERE WE GO STEELERS - HERE WE GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously folks, how can you not LOVE this team?!!!?!

Sick!

I used to be one of those moms, my kids got sick - it happens, no biggie. Fever, ah - here's some tylenol, go lay down. Now, any of my kids get a fever and I go into full panic mode - stay away from Raegan, Raegan don't you get by them! Even though I know kids get sick and get fevers I am now a freak about it. Xander came down with a fever today and I seriously get all flustered. ACK, I don't want to be a paranoid mom!!! Do you think after Rae goes off treatment I will be able to go back to normal (whatever that is) or will I always stress!?!

Hair

I love doing hair, and having only one girl poor Rae gets picked on by me. She does not like a lot of the styles that I like to do because they usually involve a lot of small rubber bands and pulling :D Now that her hair is growing in and getting longer I have so many ideas but she rarely lets me do them. Today was one of those days - she started right off with "NO PIGGIES!!!!!!!!!!!" and being as she is on the steroids I decided not to press my luck. So, this is what she got today. 80's style BIG hair :) -- all that is missing is the 5 inch bangs sticking straight up in the air!

Clinic Day

Today was clinic day. Rae did pretty good, she ended up having a small break in her port line which stressed her out a bit - then she had a reaction to one of her meds but the very good and efficient nurses (CARRIE AND TIFF!) took care of things pronto! Thanks to Kelli also for taking care of run-a-way Xander while we were dealing with miss Rae. Rae's counts are good so they are keeping her chemo right where it is. It is so strange to be at the tail end of things, knowing we only have 2 more clinic visits. To be honest I will be a little sad. I have made some great friends up there and it will be strange not to see them. I am guessing we will just have to have lunch dates or something :)

Morning Band Practice

This morning this is what I found my family doing - sorry for the blurry picture - I used the wrong camera!

Aww

Sometimes I just have to say AWWW!

Did he or didn't he???

So, on Sunday Xander acted like he was choking and then swallowed whatever was giving him troubles. I asked him what he swallowed because he said it hurt his throat. This was what he said he swallowed:
In case you can't tell, it is a steel ball. Yeah just ask me if that didn't stress me out at all. So, I call the Dr. she says give it a few days to see if he poops it out - GREAT, now I have to go digging through poop to see... SUPER! I gave him miralax pretty much every day and he pooped like a champ. No ball. So today, took him for an X-ray to see if it was in fact still in there, if it ever even was. 1st film shows HUGE circle in his lung - WHAT?! oh, woops, he had a quarter in his hand, which happened to be on his chest during the x-ray. So, ok, we will shoot another film. Second film shows large cirle in the right abdominal area - WHAT?! oh woops, it was a penny on the x-ray table. I decided he had been exposed to enough radiation at that point and there was no ball in his belly, intestines, colon etc. WOO HOO :) So, what was it that he swallowed? Who knows, I sure didn't find anything interesting or noteworthy in my daily searches!

Always good times at the Smith House!