Last Day of 2014

I can hardly believe that it is the last day of 2014!  It seems like it was just yesterday we were ringing it in (although, I was pregnant last year and don’t think we even stayed up).  So much has happened in just a year!!  Owen and Logan became big brothers in April to Avery, the boys had a breakthrough with going under water swimming this summer, Owen started Kindergarten this fall, Logan potty trained for his 3rd birthday… so many fun milestones!!!

Owen ended his year with treatment this morning.  Jeff took him down for sedation with the spinal tap.  He was very brave and did an excellent job!  His ANC was up again this month, so they increased both of his oral chemo medicines that he takes at home.  It has been up for the past few months, so that is why they changed it.  The medicine he takes is to suppress the white blood cells and when they are high, they think the medicine isn’t doing its job.  I hate seeing him having to take more pills, but I would rather that than have him come out of remission.

He joined basketball this winter and started back in the middle of November.  It is very challenging for him being that the program is designed for Kindergarten through Second grade, but they are all on the court at the same time.  So, the Kindergarteners are expected to do what the Second graders do.  He is doing an excellent job!  It has been quite a struggle.  He really did not like it at the start and could not understand why it was so hard.  We kept making him go, and he is liking it better.  As part of the program, they get to “perform” in between two high school games!  The first was in between the girls JV and Varsity games on the Monday before Christmas.  They will perform again between the boys game in January.  I was so worried that he wasn’t going to participate because this is pretty far outside his comfort zone, but he ROCKED it!!!  AND, he is looking forward to doing it again!  I am so proud of him!!!

Here is the video that I took.  DISCLAIMER:  I have never shot a video before using my camera, so there is a lot of focus issues as well as shakiness.