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Visiting With Grandma Lewis

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We took a trip home over Memorial Weekend for my nephew’s, Cody, high school graduation and my niece’s, Jordan, 8th grade graduation.  More on the trip to come, but while we were there we were able to visit with Grandma Lewis and she has continued to amaze all with her recovery from her ankle and knee surgery.  If you all recall, a few months ago it was assumed that she was not going to recover.  She has since started to eat enough to maintain and seems to be in reasonably good health.  She has some good days mixed with bad days, fortunately for our visit it was a good day as she even remembered who I was.  I was very proud of my boys as they were extremely sweet and loving with her which help put a smile on her face.

Another Three Months Passes By…

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Every three months we make the tough trip for Cutler’s quarterly check up with the oncologist.  It’s no longer a fear of the test results that make it so tough, but more the natural reaction my body has as it reacts to the memory of our first couple trips there.  Aside from my issues, Cutler’s results were normal as usual and he handled giving blood like a champ.  As he usually gets his finger poked in an effort to take blood he offered it up as soon as the lab tech entered the room, unfortunately this test required more blood and so he had to give it via the needle to the vein.  He gave it an initial cry when he was stuck, but quickly recovered and was excited to get the blue wrap on his arm.  So all in all, it was a good trip with great results and it is always good to see the doctors and staff and of course Cutler’s best friend…the great big bear in the lobby.

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Team Cutler Is Expanding

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I guess I shouldn’t say it is expanding as my family back home has always been a big part of our team, but I am happy to say that we will have five more walkers for Light The Night 2012 in October and they are already working on fundraising.  The Hopkins girls wanted to have a lemonade stand with the understanding all of the profits would go to our Light The Night fundraising efforts.  Aside from the stand, Josie and Lindsey loaded up Josie’s car and started selling door to door.  If college falls through, it sounds like they could go into vacuum sales.  They managed to raise over $50 which is pretty dang good for a last second effort.  I’m very proud of my nieces for their selfless efforts.  If you want to join the team or just provide your financial support, our team page is http://pages.lightthenight.org/ntx/Plano12/teamcutler2012.  There is a link to join the team at the bottom.  As always, feel free to spread the word.  Every little bit counts.

Starting Him Young

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This weekend was Cutler’s first “baseball” game.  It’s called BlastBall and it was indeed a blast.  Below is the first play of the season.  Cutler is number 1 and I couldn’t be more proud of his aggressiveness.  Now we just need to work on the execution.

Melanie’s Early Mother’s Day Gift

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At school this week Mason was working on a project that was for Melanie and why she was the number one mom.  When I got it out of his backpack and translated it from kindergarten learning english to a more advanced level of english I was beyond touched and couldn’t wait for Melanie to get home and see it.  He really is a special boy with an incredible heart.  He obviously gets his loving side from me.

Translation:

My mom was voted #1 because:

She lets me have dessert every night.

I love when my mom:

Eats Pizza

My mom and I like to:

Go to have a picnic

Fun facts about my mom:

She loves me

She drives me to get ice cream

She drives me to school

We obviously need to work on the spelling, but the heart is definitely in the right place.  I just wish he had school during the summer so I could get something similar for father’s day.  🙂  Below is the actual writing.