A Wonderful Day

Snow...

What is it about that first snow of the year that just brings out the child in each of us?

This morning, it snowed - and it is still snowing this afternoon. Alex's fever had broken at 99.6 yesterday, so we didn't need to take him into the hospital. This morning his temperature was fine, so we all went out to play in the snow.

We didn't really have any "snow gear" for him yet, so we squeezed him into last season's snow stuff, put on a hat, and my gloves (couldn't find any his size), and out we went. He pulled his sister in the little sled, and slid down our neighbors driveway on his sled. We made snowballs, and threw them at each other, and our neighbors - Alex laughed, giggled, yelped, squealed, and had a great time - and so did we.

After lunch, Alex and Eric went back out for some more sledding and snowball fight action. It makes my heart swell watching the two of them just be "father and son" - no oweies, no medicine, just two guys trying to get each other with as many snowballs as they can!

Tessa-Lynn and I are watching from the warmth of inside this time - it's cold out there!

This weekend, all we have had to do for medicine is the Septra - the grape icky stuff - and his heprin flush of his PICC line. It's been nice not having nearly as much medicine to keep track of for one weekend.

It's fitting that the fresh snow, which blankets everything, and makes our world quiet is falling on the weekend when Alex enters the next phase of his treatment. All is "normal" today - Alex and Tessa-Lynn are giggling, and Eric and I are enjoying "playing" with our children. I'm savoring the moment...