Happy Birthday.... (and upcoming plans)

5 years old. Cupcakes at school, a successful doctors appointment, dinner out, a visit with Aunt Bo at her ice cream house. All starting with a 4 a.m. wake up call to confirm that they were finally 5. Ending with telling them goodnight and Parker telling me "I can't wait till I'm 6".

And yep....even mom had cake at work today. Celebrating their birthday, survival, the fact I took a shower this morning and all my clothes were on the right way. :)

And now for what's coming next over the next week or so...

Payton will go in Monday afternoon for her usual lab draw but will be in the afternoon. When she's done in the clinic, she will be directly admitted to hospital. Monday evening she will get fluids and platelets in anticipation of Tuesday, where she will get a PICC line. We've talked with several doctors and she just isn't a candidate for a port. After the PICC line is in, she will begin 4 days of infusion treatments that involves a cocktail of 4 drugs. The hope is that the treatments will jump start her bone marrow to do what it's supposed to. It will be a wait and see game for a while after we're released to go home. She will be on a couple of her medicines after she comes home for a while, and we'll be managing her PICC line, as well as being bumped up to 3x a week blood draws.

We'll keep you updated how things go, but for next week that's what will be happening here. For updates, visits, etc., just get in tough with me.

More to come!

The big 0-4

The past week has flown by. So here is the week the dynamic duo turned 4 (yes 4! holy smokes!)

We started the week painting pumpkins and doing a few other Halloween decorations around the house.

For their birthday we picked up special treats to take to school and share with all their friends, teachers and nurses. I told them we just needed something that was happy birthday. I love how they turned out, and apparently they were a hit with all the kids.

I told them before they went to bed for the last time as 3 year olds that when they woke up their feet would be bigger. Payton didn't really seem to care, but Parker was very interested on whether that was really going to happen. The first thing he did when he woke up was stick his feet out and promptly inform me that they were NOT bigger.

Their first day going to school as 4 year olds. Sigh.

After school we dove into some of the leftover cupcakes.

 Friday night after school we went to the pumpkin patch to do a bonfire and hangout with the cousins. It was a beautiful night and we had an amazing time. Thanks Stacey for organizing and inviting us!

By Saturday afternoon we were all a little wiped out...

Sunday afternoon was the big party. A pink and purple princess cake and a chocolate cake with a car on it. Candy, pinatas, friends, family, cake (yum!) and a house full that love and support the twins. My grandma used to say "my cup runneth over"...now I know exactly what she meant.

By the way, they both got some new jammies for their birthday, so if anyone is looking for a couple little ones to have over for a slumber party let me know ;)

The best things in life are 3

Thank you to everyone who came to the birthday party (and we missed all of you that couldn't make it!), sent birthday messages this week, or shared a cupcake with us somewhere along the way to celebrate turning 3!!!

We've got new toys - including a drum set! - so come on over and play any time!