Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone!

Victoria has been doing very well. She is still in the "interim maintenance" phase of treatment where she has planned 3 night stays at CHEO. We are hoping to complete the 4th and last one this week. Tomorrow she will go back in for blood work. If her counts are good, she will be admitted on Thursday. She continues to be such a strong and brave little girl. While we have been there, she has been feeling pretty good. This means that most of our time has been spent in the playroom having fun. She hasn't been back in on a Wednesday so we haven't crossed paths with Boomer the sun glass wearing dog again.
Instead, two weeks ago, the kids had a surprise visit from some Olympians. Genevieve Lacasse and Brianne Jenner from the Canadian women's hockey team and Cody Sorensen from men's bobsledding came by. Victoria and one of her hospital friends spent the morning crafting their very own gold medals. Later, Victoria got to hold and wear Genevieve's gold medal !

We had a pretty low key Easter weekend. After having spent last weekend in the hospital and expecting to spend this upcoming weekend there as well, all we wanted to do was stay home. We had and Easter meal with Nanna and Grandpa and then spent the rest of the weekend alone. It's so nice to finally have spring like weather here. The kids really enjoyed playing outside and running around in the bush. It's been a very long and hard winter for us. With Victoria not really being able to be out in public, we just had to stay home. Our visitors were limited and we all had a lot of cabin fever. Spring always brings renewed optimism and new energy. With the nicer weather we will be able to go for more walks, walk around town and maybe even head to the park. Out in the open air there is much less risk of getting sick.

Here are a few more pictures from our Easter celebrations. 

Egg Dying while Jake napped

Jake's new love: foil wrapped eggs

Chocolate monkey from Auntie Lisa and Uncle Mitchell

Their excitement when they find out this is a chocolate monkey!

Diving right in

This is Tori's excited face :)

Their new caterpillar friend. I hope Jake didn't think it was a chocolate egg...

I hope you enjoy spring as much as we are. I will keep you posted if anything is going on. Remember, no news is good news ;)