I'm ADDICTED!

Ok, so I happened across a website today called http://www.scrapblog.com/ - it's awesome! And incredibly addicting! It's an on-line, electronic scrapbook site that lets you upload your photos from your computer, facebook, snapfish, and tons of other sites. Then, you can create these beautiful pages and save/publish them. Then, (and this is good) it lets you save them as a jpeg file on your computer so you can order them as photos! So, I made these cute pages (keep in mind that it's my very first time using this site so they're not too detailed.) then saved them a jpg files and ordered them from Walgreens online. I will pick them up tomorrow down the street from my house!! I'm giddy (can you tell???)!! I'm having so much fun with this. You can make invitations, birth announcements, thank you's, holiday cards, calendars, and so much more!! Wooooo hooooooo! Ok, enough for now, check it out and get addicted yourself. Have a great weekend. xo, Pam

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What's with this music??

In case you're wondering...

I posted a music playlist on here that comes on automatically (You can pause it, though) - these are songs that Avery LOVES! She chose them because they are all songs she really likes (please excuse any seemingly inappropriate lyrics, she doesn't know what they are saying, she mostly just loves to dance to them.)

So, I hope you enjoy the songs, because Avery surely does.

As for that cold - she still has it. It's still hanging in there, but (thankfully) not getting worse. Still no fever or anything that would send her to the hospital. She goes back to the clinic at CHOC on Tuesday for labwork and her 2nd flu shot, so the Dr. will be see her then and evaluate her ick. She's sniffly a little more today, but coughing less so hopefully this will pass soon. Her poor little nose can't take much more of this.

Both her spirits and energy have been high lately. Avery has been going on bike rides around the whole block almost every day lately - Dad is great for making sure she gets outside a lot lately. And she's getting so strong that I can barely keep up with her when she's on her bike!! Her hair is really coming in now - and it's dark!!! We can't tell yet if it will be curly again, but it looks like it will be a darker brown, rather than her sandy brownish/blonde she had before. Her eyebrows are back now, too (she didn't realize they were gone - can you imagine??)




This was taken almost 2 weeks ago, on her last visit to CHOC 11/25/08









And don't forget to stop by our official website for the latest information on Avery and any fundraisers. www.averybravery.com

And, as always, thank you for your support and love - we couldn't get through this without all of you - especially Avery's prayer warriors (and my chocolate delivery fairy). Much love to ya!

Avery's First Cold Since Being Diagnosed

Well, it's December 2 and it has been almost 8 months since Avery was diagnosed with leukemia - and she has her first cold. On the one hand we're fortunate that it seems to be a viral thing - no runny nose, no colorful nose items and no fever (thank God for that). It's just a sniffle and a weird cough. And as thankful as I am that it's not worse, I can't help but be really bummed out that she's sick.

I sort of feel like I've failed her by letting her get sick, but in reality I know that it was inevitable. We can get our flu shots, we can skip family functions, we can miss out on movies and dinners and get togethers, we can skip pre-school and playing at the park - but when it comes down to it, we can't control how many people go out in public sick. As careful as I am about washing hands, sanitizing (constantly), covering grocery carts, and everything else - it's impossible to protect her 100% - and that's the part I hate!

So, we spent the day in warm, snuggy clothes, got in a little extra couch time, drank some orange juice, bought a new humidifier, had a warm bath, a couple of books and some snuggles and we're saying lots of prayers that Avery feels better really soon.

I uploaded a new video on You Tube today from the CHOC Disneyland fundraiser walk we did on October 18th. You can check it out by scrolling down to the bottom of this blog page - it's on the You Tube video bar at the bottom. I hope you enjoy watching it - it was an incredible day for us. We are already planning ahead for next year's walk - if you would like to join Team Avery Bravery you can visit www.averybravery.com for more information. Big Hugs!