Well Ellie just walked into radiation this morning with an excited Dolly. Ellie chose crayons from the treasure box yesterday, princess crayons this time, like we don't have enough already, anyway, Dolly asked her to draw her a picture. So this morning Ellie presented Dolly with a picture Ellie drew of her jumping on the trampoline at Dasha's house. Dolly was so excited to post it and get to look at Ellie every day!! ;)
I want to tell you guys about something that happened yesterday. My mom was in town for work meetings on campus so afterward we spent the rest of the afternoon and evening with her. We wanted to do some school clothes shopping for Ellie but she wasn't having it. She found one outfit at Old Navy and was done for the day. So she was being very uncooperative in her special way. So we left and got back into the car. We went on a quest to find the awesome park Ryan found last week so we could go this week again. Well in the car Ellie fell asleep, so her uncooperation was from tiredness aparently. After that rest it was dinner time so we got her out and ate at Hu Hot! She really liked it there so dinner went smoothly. We had icecream afterward at Cold Stone. YUM!! As we were buckling up in the car Ellie made the comment," It was a nice day hanging out!" Immediately I looked at my mom and asked, "did she really just say that?" And we both broke out in histarical laughs. She just sat back there and said,"what's so funny?" Our thoughts were that it was not a fun day of hanging out because she had been so uncooperative and contradictory in the mall. Oh dear, she had already forgotten what we went through and was commenting on how she enjoyed dinner and dessert. Cutie pie. I am still laughing at that moment today as I type this.
Ellie definately hit a wall last week during radiation. I can tell she is already tired at the begining of this week. It's taking its toll but we are hangin' in there and trying to do low key activities. We have been painting little ceramic figurines we found at the store for cheap. We have painted 18 since Sunday evening. Not even three full days and she has them all painted. She wants me to post them on the blog so I'll be getting pictures sometime and posting them. I also have lots of other pictures to post from weekend activities and stuff. I'll try to get to it eventually.
A cute story I wanted to share about Nathan also. One day I was picking Nate up from Wendy's and she told me that he likes to play with the play kitchen forks and spoons. Then when it's breakfast or lunch time he runs over to his chair with the play forks and spoons in his hands like he's ready to eat. It's so cute she says, he's just got a huge smile on his face like, feed me I'm ready. Nate has been using forks and spoons a lot so it's neat to see his coordination improving. Nate is our wild man.
Ellie has been also contradictory on whether she wants to be home or in Iowa City. When we are here she says she wants friends to come visit or she wants to be back home and doesn't want to do radiation. Then when we are home for the weekend she says she wants to go back to the Ronald McDonald House. This week she has said quite a bit already that she doesn't want to do radiation anymore. She asks why, decides she doesn't want to get another tumor so she says it's ok to finish this up. I think she's so contradictory because she gets bored or isn't doing wht she wants to be doing in one place so asks to go back to the other place. She's also been crying a lot for Titi Eleanor. That's her great aunt in Chicago. My mom's sister. She randomly says she's sad about missing certain people.
This summer has flown by and we will be starting school with her before we know it. Although I am excited for her to start kindergarten I wish we were going to have time to prepare some before it actually starts. She will start school the week after radiation is done. Well those are just some thoughts for the day. Have a good one!!
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