Yes, I realize it has been a very long time since I have provided an update.  I often feel guilty as I walk past my lonely computer in the office at night after helping put the kids to bed, but I have just been too darn tired to sit down and be creative.  I won’t blow anymore empty promises on future posts that I still owe (e.g. brother’s day, Mason’s birthday)…holy crap I forgot to post about Mason’s birthday back in August?  I have got some work to do.

So anyway, onto the update.  Last week Cutler had his monthly visit with the oncologist where he no longer cries when getting his finger pricked for blood and instead just fusses a bit when he gets tired of the nice lady drawing the blood not letting go of his finger when he is ready.  He is very fascinated with the bandaid as well.  He also prowls the office now as if he owns it.  Oh yeah, the blood work continues to look normal.  His donor marrow is still around 92% so we would still like to see that get up to 100% but this may be baby steps.  As we are now over a year of being in remission and getting very close to his transplant date (12/4) we are very pleased with where Cutler is.  As you can tell from the many photos and videos he is a very normal run of the mill terror for a 20 month old…he just happens to have two belly buttons.  🙂

I will leave you all with a quick video of one of Cutler’s favorite things to do…chasing after his brother.  I think it’s also one of Mason’s favorite things to do.