Cycle 7, Day 1 update and pics

Summer is doing pretty good at the end of day 1 of chemo. She has been pumped full of drugs today: heart protectant, 3 different chemo drugs, mesna, zophran. She weighed 34.3 pounds this morning which is the most she has ever weighed. My baby girl has all but disappeared over the past six months. No more baby fat or sweet innocence. She has been introduced to pain and sickness like she has never known in her short life. I pray that all of this is not in vain and she will be cured. She was a little nauseous earlier this evening when she saw the plate of food they brought her: baked chicken and mashed potatoes. I think it was all the green spices on top of the chicken that got to her, but who really knows? She made it to the trash can and didn't really lose too much. Wasn't much in there to begin with. All she ate today was a little egg, about 1/4 a piece of toast and some vanilla wafers. This evening she ate several black olives and some chicken noodle broth. We are currently waiting on more broth. I'm glad to see she is eating something. Now, here are the pics I promised.

Decorating the sugar cookies she just had to make (but didn't eat any of....) The final product of our work: turtle, heart, lion, tree & koala bear cookies

Lexie eating a jar of veggies and rice

she's starting to teeth at 11 1/2 months

Summer is dressed in my pool wrap

Playing in water downtown

Wade helps Katie and Summer with their fish

Wearing the flowergirl's dress from my wedding

Her picture on the Walnut Street Bridge

How adorable is she????

I love you!

Daddy carries his tired little girl

Posing under her pic

Our family of three

Summer eats some goldfish at the United Way fair

Katelyn, Summer and Liliana go way back....well 3 years :) Swimming and making faces

More funny faces

Smiling for the camera again. What a lucky day!!!

Summer was a prankster giving family members a pizza box with a toy rat in it. LOL