~A Rita Report~

A message from Rita:

I went to the doctor today. Got a good report. Actually a very good report. I feel much better since talking to him. My blood work all looked real good. He checked me over good. Sending me for a chest xray which I had done today after I left him. He told me I responded so well to the treatment and with everything else he feels there's a 90% chance of this never coming back. That made me feel much better. I guess I just had to talk to him again and hear all that. I told him I think about it a lot. It's always there. He said that would get better with time. I hope so. But I do feel more relieved than I did before I saw him today. I'm getting the portacath removed on 6/2 at 1:30. Once that's gone I should be in pretty good shape.

Thanks for all of your prayers and positive thoughts!

~A Day Out With Thomas~

This weekend Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Heathie came for a visit. We went out to visit Thomas at the railroad station...what fun!

We saw a great big train set and watched all the trains go around the track. We also got temporary tattoos on our cheeks~Finn had Thomas and Mama had Percy. Then, we went for a train ride. Despite the wind and rain it was great!

So, this evening it was bath time as usual and Finn was singing up a storm. Currently we love to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. When I get the camera and start rolling he clams up...as usual. The events that followed happened to be the funniest thing I've seen transpire in quite some time and I just happened to be taping.

If you've already watched the video you have seen/heard me trying to coax Finn into singing and all of a sudden a teeny weeny noise emerges from his backside...and again, another. While he's passing his teeny weeny gasses...he informs me that he's interested in going poo poo.

Now, we've gone over this time and time again...Mama is quite put out when Finn's bath is interrupted with scrubbing bubbles, borax, Mr. Clean or whatever cleaning product I can get my hands on to quickly scrub out the bacteria after one of Finn's poo poos shows up. After filming stopped Finn did indeed go poo poo in the tub. However, he was swiftly removed from the tainted surroundings and placed on the "big boy potty" where, I can only speculate, residual poo poos fell into the potty. This lead to a very big celebration in which we praised Finn up and down for going in his big boy potty.

He kept looking in and we kept clapping and pointing at the tiny little spec of poo poo in the potty. In the midst of all of this praise and his confusion, Finn kept saying: I go poo poos in the TUB!