Here are a few videos from Mason’s successful test for his orange strip on his yellow belt from last night. 

Mason is really enjoying karate and this was his first trip to the actual karate school as all of his classes to date have been at his montessori school.  Based on Mason’s reaction to the actual school, I think we will be taking him there for some extra work as he would not stop telling me how much he likes it.  I only wish he would kick the soccer ball as hard as he kicks the pads.

Today went very well, aside from me not being able to see Cutler that is.  First things first, the results of the phish test came back and showed that there is no leukemia cells within his current system.  This is great news and the test was run because of the results of the test that determined the amount of cells coming from the different marrows.  This was a huge relief for us and excellent news to receive after a few days of frustration.

Positive news number 2, is that Cutler has now gone over 36 hours without digestion issues and they have increased the volume from 20 ml to 22 ml and will increase slightly every 12 hours as long as there are no issues.  Dr. Goldman has said that once he can handle 40 ml over a 12 hour period, we can have our baby boy back home.  I don’t want to set any timelines, but they are thinking middle to end of next week.

More positive news is that Cutler actually drank an ounce of thickened water from the sippy cup today as well as ate some diced apples!  Cutler was even getting upset whenever the cup was taken away from him, so this is a huge step and while he does require a squeeze of the cup from one of us to get the liquids, it is incredible that he is actually drinking from it and more importantly wanting to drink from it. 

The only negative on the day is that I have a stomach virus of some sort.  Last night my fever got up to around 100 and I went to the doctor first thing this morning and was pretty much told there isn’t much to do, but to let it run its course and naturally to stay away from the hospital.  Fortunately my fever has been gone since about 9 am and I am feeling much better, so I should hopefully be able to get back up to see Cutler by tomorrow night.  The timing sucks as Melanie is out of town, but fortunately my parents came in town and just the right time and so Aunt Pat put in an extra long shift during the day and my mom is sacrificing her back to spend the night for me.  I actually think she might be doing it just to get away from dad’s snoring, but we will stick with her selfless sacrifice for now.  🙂

Sorry for no photos of Cutler, but hopefully I can get some up tomorrow.