May – June 2015

Where has the time gone?  I apologize for the lack of updates, but that means that he is doing good!  A lot has happened since his last post.  Owen has done so much!!  First off, he turned 6!!!  I can’t believe it!   He finished Kindergarten, and really enjoyed it.  He loves learning and has been working over the summer so that he doesn’t forget it for next year.  He has also been playing baseball.  He did much better this year and had a lot more fun.  He did a week long camp where they gave them extra tips on how to get better.  They even got to have Neil Walker, 2nd baseman from the Pirates, come and talk to them one morning.  He talked about his baseball experience and let the kids ask him questions too.  You would have thought that was the highlight of camp, but I think for Owen it was getting a loose tooth!  The one day he came home and said, “Mom, I was biting on this metal ring at camp today because I thought it would maybe make my tooth get loose, but it didn’t.”  The next day, I picked him up he said “Guess what!?!, I got hit in the face when I was trying to catch a fly ball, and now my tooth is loose!”.  I think maybe he didn’t catch it on purpose 😉  This week we realized one more is loose, so I think the tooth fairy will be visiting us any day now.

His last treatment was a spinal tap, which is never fun.  He did pretty good.  He was tired for the week following, but didn’t get sick.  The Fellow who was the one who told us of his diagnosis the very first night, and has cared for him since the beginning, informed us that she is moving to Memphis to work at St.Jude.  So sad to see her leave.  She was always so good about answering emails, and was really like “family”.   Owen’s Oncologist will continue to see him, but they switched our days because of his availability.

Owen enjoys Cub Scouts and they were supposed to have a rain gutter regatta, but due to all of the rain we have been getting, it has been postponed until September.  That doesn’t seem to make sense, but anyway… Here is a picture of Owen sanding down one piece of his boat.  Mind the hair, he won’t get it cut because it is “cool” to have long hair…