To all my blog readers, I would like to take the time to share something with you I haven't really yet. On February 17, we became the legal guardian to my foster brother, just 5 days before we found out about Robs cancer. He has stayed with us for the past 4 months. The first few months were really good, he was a lot of fun to be around, he brought a smile to my face, he thinks about things so differently it made me laugh. For example there is a song my Rihanna that says "whats my name", he said to me I don't like that artist she doesn't even know her own name, lol then this other song by Bruno Mars is "I'd catch a grenade for you", he says dude if she is getting grenades thrown at her she is probably messed up in some bad stuff. Lol! always made me laugh. The boys loved him so much. He was always polite when we had people over and when we went places. Then all of sudden something changed, and things started going down hill, they spiraled out of control and I couldn't reach out to him. I tried so hard. He has left us just last week and left us a parting bill, we don't know the cost yet till we get an estimate done. As much as I know that we couldn't be the people he needed, it is so sad to see him leave us. I feel like I lost a child of my own, it hurts a lot and I miss him very much. I feel like I failed, I know that is not whats important, its important that we tried.

On another note Rob and I went to his appointment for blood work. The doctor was very happy with the progress Rob is making and said if he is up to going back to work in August then go for it. He has a CT scan scheduled for July 19.

I went for an ultrasound today and they updated their equipment, it was so amazing to see the baby, I could make out what we were looking at without her telling me what it was. It wasn't as alien looking, you could actually see the white of the eye. The baby's foot is 2.18" long, so tiny and you could see all 5 toes. The baby is measuring just right for 18 weeks, everything looks good and normal. I will post later the gender of the baby for now it is a surprise for our parents.

Then after we finished helping the people with the flat tire around 8PM, I came inside made cupcakes, a 3 tiered cake and potato salad. The cupcakes and potato salad were for Seths grad and the cake is for a party tonight. It has been a very busy last few days. I like the top right picture Seth is going to be a good big brother again.

We tried to go to Calaway park on Wednesday and they have spring hours so they are open from 10-2:30 we got there at 1:30 cause Seth had school. I felt so bad for the boys they were so sad, so we got up early on Thursday and went to Calaway. We had a really good time, the weather was perfect.

Last night a young couple and some of their friends were driving around here and heard a loud noise so they pulled down our street and it turns out they had a flat tire and he already had the dummy tire on. He had an extra tire but it wasn't on the rim so the guy and Rob tried for an hour to get on. Meanwhile I was calling everywhere to see if how much they would charge to put it on, the only place open was Canadian Tire and none of them had time to do it before they closed. I was also on the computer at the same time checking to see if there were any hints for doing this without a machine, lol I found the mexican way to do it, they put oil on the tire. So Rob and the other guy tried it and they got it on in 10 minutes. There were 3 girls and 2 guys it was so hot our they were hungry and thirsty so I made them some ice tea, but didn't feed them cause they were going out for ribs. Then our awesome neighbor had the exact same tires that he had bought 2 years ago and they were just sitting in his yard, so he gave them to this complete stranger, it was so amazing I knew we had awesome neighbors but they went above and beyond. This guy with the broken down car just moved here.

Rob got a call from the hospital today and it looks like we have to go back on Monday instead of on the 27th. His white blood cells are a little low. They want to monitor them more closely, so every week instead of in 2 weeks.

Robs energy is slowly building. He is doing awesome. The doctors are happy with his progress. At the hospital on Monday they were asking us if he had this or that, and the only thing he had was a little hearing loss and loss of concentration. Things he didn't have that could be symptoms were swelling, loss of taste buds, cramps, loss of appetite, rash. I am sure there were more but I can't remember them all right now.

We bought the boys a quad today, it was so adorable, they just hopped on one at a time, and went for it. I came home from the afternoon run and Tyler is yelling at me from across the street, you want to watch me on the quad?, lol so I went out back to the alley and he just hops on goes to the end turns around and comes back, lol it was so cute, he did well and was so happy. Then Seth gets on and does the same thing, there is a remote for it that we can sound the horn, so Seth was driving and Rob had the remote. Seth didn't slow down as he was getting close to our dog (Oreo) so Rob sounded the horn and he knew to slow down. We can also turn off the quad with the remote, and they have a cord around their wrist attached to the key so if they fall off the quad will shut off.

I went to the doctor today and we heard the baby's heart beat it was 144. That made me feel so much better, I haven't really felt the baby much but the doctor said not until about 17-18 weeks do I start to feel it. For the most part I don't even feel pregnant and then 9PM hits and the nausea kicks in, lol I will take that over the nausea with Seth it was early in the morning and the pills didn't even help I would still throw up. I am going to try and go off of the pills again in about a week to see if I am ok. It seems like the slightest stress makes me sick, and the pills help with that, there are two thing in diclectin, an antihistamine to prevent the nausea and vitamin B6 to help with the vomiting action. I know it is safe to take I just don't like to take pills. I think natural is better, however I am sick of ginger, watermelon doesn't work, peppermint helps for like 5 minutes, and that is all I know for nausea, well gravol but I know that wouldn't work because I would just fall asleep.

Rob was able to go on a pass yesterday. He has to return to the hospital on Monday morning. They gave him pass meds as they call it. It is just all the medication that he needs to take while away from the hospital. He had to take 9 pills this morning at 8, then he takes 2-4 pills at 2PM, 4PM, 6PM, 8PM and 10PM. He is doing really well, like nothing ever happened, he is full of energy.

My mom bought a new trailer today. Rob and my mom had a great idea to rip apart the old trailer and use it for a utility trailer to take the quads to the camp site. Well Rob figured he would start on it today and then he did way too much. I think he was really excited to have a trailer for the quads, he has been on this quest for 2 months, his side is really sore. He worked on it for about 2 hours, considering he hasn't done anything all week because he was in the hospital I think he did really well.

Rob is doing so much better, he is on a double dose of antibiotics. They tested for an infection in his gestational track and it came back positive. I guess that would explain the pain in his stomach. He has to swallow the second dose of antibiotics because it will get to his stomach faster that way. It doesn't look like Rob will be out Thursday like we thought. He has to finish the antibiotics that go into his CVC line than they will pull it out and he can go home.