The Smiths: All Else May

Here's all the other random stuff we did in May -

Seth tried broccoli!

We took Seth in for an ultrasound of his kidneys. Can't remember if I ever posted about this, but he has hydronephrosis - excess fluid around his kidneys; has since before he was born. They did an ultrasound when he was about 2 months old, then again at 8 months. It's expected to resolve itself as he grows, but hasn't yet. Abigail and Cora got to come with Seth and me to the hospital for the ultrasound!

Seth continues to love his blanket-face sleep. This is his preferred blanket - from Uncle Reid and Aunt Jana!

This one time, I went to Walmart with Abigail and the Cheeto guy was there! She got a free bag of chips, but was too shy to take a picture. We got to the checkout line and I realized I didn't have my wallet. So I loaded everything back into my cart and called Andrew. He came with all the other kids and dropped Halle off with my wallet. So she got to see the Cheeto guy too and wasn't shy for a picture!

Her presence gave Abigail courage :)

We did our first at-home haircut for Andrew since....well, since Garland. All the girls got a turn to help.

Some special treats just because! (Sam's Club clearance....)

Enjoying the soft grass while we wait to pick up Eve and Halle from school. We walked to get them almost every day in May and it was awesome!

Abigail being Abigail :)

Sleepy Hollow had "muffins with mom" before school on the 17th. The girls were just sad because they only had blueberry muffins. Boxes, and boxes, and boxes of only blueberry. Lots of the kids were disappointed. I bet "donuts with dad" is much more popular.

Halle helping me at Sam's Club - ha!

Abigail's latest scratch looking better and better!

The girls being goofy at WIC :)

So Dr. Belirgen had said to bring Abigail back two weeks after her surgery for a follow-up MRI and to remove the stitches. I waited a couple days after we got home and when his office hadn't contacted me about an appointment, I called them. I love Dr. Belirgen, but his office staff is kind of.....useless. She said they didn't even have notification that Abigail had been released from the hospital yet and they couldn't possibly get her in until one month after surgery. Um.....I explained the situation but she wouldn't budge. So I called the oncologist to reschedule our initial chemo consultation (he wanted to wait until she was cleared by Dr. Belirgen). Dr. Kaylani immediately said he'd call Dr. Belirgen's cell and get it straightened out. By the next day, Dr. Belirgen's office called Andrew (guess they were avoiding me for going over their heads??) to say she'd been scheduled for the two week mark as originally planned.

So, on Thursday, the 23rd, Abigail and I went back to Lubbock! First we did the rapid MRI, so no sedation. Then we had a couple of hours to kill until our appointment with Dr. Belirgen. We walked about a little, and then had planned on maybe going to the park, but....

Abigail fell asleep instead. So we just sat in the cool car while she slept.

Dr. Belirgen said the MRI looked good and took out her stitches! She didn't like when he had to tug, but overall, she did great! He gave the ok for her to begin chemo in Amarillo.