Before the haircut...

Praise the Lord that Kateli has been doing so well with treatment, and that we have managed to remain healthy through this season!! Katherine had a spinal tap on Wednesday this week, and while it was a bit harder for me, she did magnificent as always. It impresses me when she wakes up from that procedure and acts as if nothing happened. In fact, her procedure was a 10:30am, we got home about 1:00pm, took regular naps and then that afternoon were outside playing like a normal 3 year old and her 18month old brother--what a blessing!!!! The previous time when we went into clinic Katherine's blood count remained high, about 1500, so the nurse told me that if her numbers were high again this last time that they would increase one of her chemo dose by 25%. When her numbers came back on Wednesday, Diane, very excitedly informed us that "she was amazing!" She was at 1197!!!! above 500 and below 1500!! So, guess what?? no chemo increase!! Wooohoo!!! THank you all for your prayers for our little princess. I know that it's not just by chance that she is doing so well, but that she's got quite the protector taking care of her, and she has her prayer warriors shooting up those prayers daily!! So, thank you and please continue!!

This morning Kateli and I went out on a mommy-daughter date (which we need to do more often) to get a haircut. Yes, she needed a haircut!! Another praise!! Her hair has been coming in and was long enough that we needed to style it!! She looks precious! It was so funny! I was so excited that she had finally agreed to get her haircut, that we got in the car immediately and started driving without a clue where I was going to take her. So, I called my hairstylist, only to find out that she was not working today. I called a few other places, but I guess everybody gets their hair cut on Saturday because they were all booked. So, finally we went to JCPenney and had a "master" hairstylist cut her hair. The funniest part was in the parking lot, getting out of the car. Katherine looked at me, as I was unbuckling her from her seat and said "mommy, I take my pepe (paci) for haircut, so I don't cry" and guess what?? she conned me into letting her take in her paci to use while she sat in the chair. It worked. She didn't cry, she didn't squirm, she didn't even complain; and she was super excited afterwards to come home and show daddy her new haircut. I have yet to capture a photo of her with her new do...but I wanted to leave you with a photo of her before her cut. I'll try to take a pic of her tomorrow. Enjoy!