Saturday at home with the Girls
Saturday morning - Charlotte watching Playhouse Disney - JoAnn paying some bills and Facebooking - Toby doing some coding...
Sometime today we will be putting up the new shutters on the house... Home improvement is never-ending... but the satisfaction of improving ones own property is fantastic... I love living here, and I love working on the house!
Granny and Poppa are headed to Denver and then Estes Park tomorrow. I have to drop them at Albany Airport at 7AM, so will have to get up at 5:30AM... I'll have to pick them up on Friday too, some time after 11:30PM.
My birthday is coming up on Thursday. 35 - wow, I'm really going to be 35... We are headed to The Great Escape for the day, thank you to The Starlight Foundation. Gramma and Grampa will be joining us, so it should be a fun day. We know that Charlotte will have a blast.
Charlotte is saying many words, stringing many together. She is completely a sponge at age 25-months. It is amazing to me as her father to see the daily change in her and see her growing so fast. Just today she moved up to the next size diapers (nappies). Change is a good thing, but no matter how excited I am with her growth and seeing her develop, with each change I miss my little girl from the day before.
Life is busy, not blogging much!
I have to send out some apologies as I haven't been blogging much. Most stuff is sent to Twitter and Facebook, so getting in here to post is just a little more work. Live has been very busy in the last few months, but hopefully as we move past the middle of the summer, we can all slow down a little and take some deeper breathes.
Home from the British Isles
We got home at about 6:35pm this evening. We will work on some holiday notes and getting photos and videos up for all to enjoy over the weekend as time permits. Great to be home, even if it does feel like 1am right now! 
Home Town Hockey
The owners of the Philadelphia Phantoms are looking at moving the team to Glens Falls next season. We have already put down for season tickets, and having home town hockey back in the area will give a serious boost to the local economy.
This is the news article from WTEN News Channel 10, the ABC Affiliate in Albany, NY.
We are in the clip at 00:45 seconds. Enjoy! (SORRY ABOUT THE AUTO-PLAY!)
CHARLOTTE UPDATE: Second Round of Chemotherapy
We are now home from a long weekend at Albany Medical Center. We checked in on Thursday evening to get Charlotte started on hydration. Daddy did the night-shift, allowing Mommy to get a half-good night of sleep at the Ronald McDonald House.
Chemo was eventually started at about 11:30am on Friday, having the 4-hour Cisplatin course run through mid-afternoon. Charlotte actually slept for about three of the four hours, this was done to the anit-nausea drugs that basically knocked her out!
Later, Granny and Poppa came to stay with Charlotte, allowing Mommy and Daddy to take a couple of hours to go and have dinner, which they did at The Recovery Room Sports Bar and Grill, which is located on the ground floor of the Hilton Garden Inn directly across the road from the hospital. Great food, and a good time for them to get away and have a short break.
Granny also stayed for the night-shift, allowing both Mommy and Daddy to get a good nights sleep in a real bed, and not a chair that apparently works like a bed! Unfortunately, in the RMH the mattresses are all "Sleep Number" beds, and both Mommy and Daddy set the numbers at 35, but at about 4:30am they had both woken to find the number at 85, and they both have sore backs from the beds being like boards! Whoo-hoo to beds with technology! I think not...
Saturday was an off day for the chemo drugs, but some anti-nausea drugs were needed. Charlotte had a very cuddlely day, not really wanting to do much but sit and love with Mommy, Daddy or Granny. Poppa returned later in the day to collect Granny, and they went home. Mommy had the overnight on Saturday evening, allowing Daddy to retire to the RMH some sleep.
Sunday morning was time for Vincristin and 5FU chemo drugs, and then dischrage. We left the hospital at about 10:30am and all went back to the RMH. Daddy and Charlotte explored the toy room while Mommy got ready to check out, and we left to come home at about 11:30am. On the way home, Grampa Ron called and said that Gramma Dar was working and wondered if Daddy wanted to go to the Albany River Rats game in Glens Falls with him. Daddy, who loves hockey was right there for this one!
Whilst Daddy and Grampa went to the hockey, Charlotte and Mommy and an evening in catching up on The Wiggles and The Imagination Movers, recorded on DVR while we were away. Good mommy/daughter time! :)
Sunday night brough around a solid 12-hours of sleep for Charlotte, and about 8-hours each for Mommy and Daddy. Monday has shown some nausea again, but the medications appear to be working. Charlotte is still lacking some energy, but this is partly because her hemoglobin counts are low (not enough for high concern yet, though). All other blood counts are within normal levels.
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