Great Week Home, full of GOOD TIMES!!!

Avarie is having the best week ever, except for the almost two year old who beats her up everyday. Sawyer just can't help himself and hits or throws things at her several times a day. Then he kisses and hugs her and she forgives him immediately, but she is definitely nervous every time he comes around. That darn little man. We have tried everything to get him to stop. We've put him in time out, redirected, yelled, even spat his hand. Nothing works and the more attention we pay to it the more he does it, but we can't just not ignore him and let him keep hitting her. Otherwise everything is going great. Her appetite is coming back with a vengeance. We can't keep her full, she doesn't eat a lot at each sitting, she just eats all day long like a little cow grazing in the field. So I attached a video of her eating pancakes. The video is from Tuesday, that was the day she first started to really eat. She had been losing quite a bit of weight over the last couple of weeks, but I bet when we check in on Sunday evening she will have put a good amount of weight back on. There are also pictures of her collecting eggs with Grandpa Foushee. Grandpa has a whole bunch of chickens and a rooster or two. I never knew roosters actually crow all day long, not just in the morning, talk about annoying. For anyone concerned about the risk of touching the animals, we scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed her hands after she collected the eggs and we didn't let her touch the animals or go into their cage, just on the outside of it. She really enjoyed that. Also their is a picture of her at her brother Carter's Kindergarten graduation. Yes, kindergarten graduation! Might be a little overkill, but oh well it was cute. Avarie thought it was so neat to watch Carter walk across the bridge and give the 1st graders on the other side a high 5. All part of her fun week home. Yesterday we took all the kids, minus the baby to see "UP", it was a cute movie, love the old man fight scene. Today we went to her photo shoot in Portland and we're headed to dinner and then a night of board games. Then tomorrow we are driving to the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport to see fish!
It is hard to think about doing the transplant right now when she is doing so great. She is going to be so sick when we start killing her bone marrow and it is going to be awhile before we see this happy energetic little girl again. I just hate the thought of it. When she was really sick, it was what I wanted more then anything to hurry and get her in so she could get better. Now she seems better and I feel like we're going to be taking her and making her sick again. I know we have to do this to give her the best chance of survival to get healthy and stay healthy again. Its just hard to see past the fact that I have this happy little girl who is doing great right now and we are then going to go and purposely make her really sick. Oh well, I know its for the best.
Just a reminder we are having Avarie's "Going to Transplant Party" on Saturday from 11-2 at Max Patterson Park in Gladstone. Please come and have fun with us before we begin this next part of our journey. Hope to see you all there. Thanks for all your support.