Little Wonders

Once again a huge thank you to my dear friend Kele,mom to darling Presley,for taking the time to put together another beautiful collage of Zoey's latest round.I think it is remarkable that Kele found even a few moments in her busy life, to do something so special for us.These collage's offer an opportunity for us all to take a quick glance back at where Zoey started at at the beginning of a round and where she is today.We are so blessed that these first two rounds have found Zoey doing better than any of us expected.We can only pray that with each passing round she continues to do what's got to get done, in such amazing Zoey fashion.I don't have the exact measurements but Zoey has grown approximately 2 inches and gained over 3 pounds since she began treatment in October.I find that beyond belief.Beyond what I ever thought would be the way this all would progress.Her personality is really coming out.Although she continues to be a pretty laid back child,she is beginning to show us another side.A stubborn one.Without having any words or really any sounds to let us know what she needs or wants or better yet what she doesn't want,she lets us know with actions and facial expressions.She has this new scowl face she gives and she VERY deliberately pushes away anything or anyone she doesn't want a part of.One constant is that smile of hers.Her smile continues to light our way and give us the hope that we all will one day see our way through and out of this latest obstacle.That she will find her way out of this latest fight.As it stands we have the week at home.Because they sent us home with such a low ANC count,20,they do not anticipate her number to be up to 750 until probably next week.The plan is to head down next Tuesday and re-access her port,draw some blood,see if we are ready and then admit.If for some reason and with Zoey you never can tell,if for some reason she is not ready then we go home and re-do the whole process a few days later.We will embrace these days at home as they will go far too fast.Yesterday I had a very difficult time sending everyone back to their routines.My children give me a hard time because if I had it my way we would all live together,all the time,forever, and as we grew in number we would create a Needham Compound where we all lived next door to each other.A girl can dream,can't she? But I do know that dream it is slightly selfish of me as I also know everyone needs to forge their own way.Without me.By days end I was better and realized back to routine isn't so bad.Necessary actually.Everyone does such an awesome job of adjusting to our ever changing normal.I am proud of each and everyone of them.And often wonder how I came to be so absolutely blessed and lucky.