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Football and Rock Stars
By Margot | January 4, 2009
At the Wild Animal Park- Charlie is sleeping nearby in the stroller- Andy just missed putting bunny ears on me by seconds, can you tell by his hands?
Charlie the Rockstar
Well, I don’t know that we’ll be signing any record contracts or going on tour any time soon but we sure are having fun with Rock Band. Sam switches off as the singer or guitarist, it’s either Dad or Andy on drums, I sing or do the guitar and Charlie plays the guitar (when it’s not actually on) and him banging his head and dancing to the music is awesome. As the mother who is always nagging the kids to get off the video games, and limiting their time, I’m a Rock Band convert. Neil is a really good drummer, he can do the expert level -he played drums for years and it’s funny to see how the drums are really played by someone who has rhythm vs. me whose arms are flailing all around every which way. Our friend Meredith says it’s ok, because every family needs someone who looks like Animal from the muppets – that would be me;-). Andy is a getting pretty good at the drums and Sam is great on the guitar and vocals. His adorable eight-year old friend Natalie was over a few days ago and was the singer belting out “Roxanne, you don’t have to put on the red dress tonight. You don’t have to walk the streets for money.” Probably not the best influence. I was joking with Neil that we could be the next Partidge/Osmond/Jackson family – Ha ha. Maybe in bizarro world.Â
Sam has popped back to his normal self in the last week and hasn’t complained of any pain so it must have been still due to the Velcade. I hope so anyway. We did something we don’t normally do and didn’t even call on Friday for his urine numbers and therefore have been blissfully ignorant of them this weekend and I can tell myself they went down whether they did or not. Neil is still reading every paper that he can and trying to track down more options for us.
Our househould went nuts last night during the Charger game. We had the Monaco family over to watch the game and the boys hugged and tackeled each other when the game went into overtime and then went completely crazy when we won the toss and Sproles ran in the touchdown. What an exciting game! Sam is so happy today and was getting really worried in the last few minutes of the game. The Chargers gave him a late Christmas present. He’s on day five of radiation. We took a three day break for New Years which is good we think because it gives the stem cells time to come out of hiding (that’s a theory anyway). Sam is taking some supplements that are helpful to radiation so hopefully we are knocking that leg lesion.
We’ve been pretty relaxed this last week of the holiday. We did get out to the Wild Animal Park last week and it was a beautiful day. We had a lot of fun and a nice long walk until it got pretty packed. The boys got to hang out with the Bonebrake boys yesterday and had a Backugan brawl.  We’re off to the park today and then tomorrow is back to school and schedule crazy.  Sam’s radiation appointmets have been at 7am which he is not all that happy about on his vacation but is perfect because we are in and out of there in a matter of minutes. Neil and I have been taking turns taking him in and it was nice this morning to walk out of the hosptial holding Sam’s hand and see a beautiful sky and be ready for the day. Sam and I tell each other we are up with the worms and the birds ;-). I thought to myself as we walked towards the car, “Please let us do right by our amazing little boy.”
Anyway, wanted to get this post in before it was tainted by possibly worrisome numbers and/or scans all coming this week. Hopefully it will be all good news. Happy New Year to All!Â
Margot
Topics: Progress Reports | 4 Comments »
January 4th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Thanks for the update, we back here in Michigan greatly appreciate them. I suspect in the next 50 years or so Andy will make sure there are plenty of pictures of you with bunny ears.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:29 am
I love the picture!!!!!!! Andy is just too cute and wanted soo bad to put those bunny ears up!!! Reminds me of a certain redhead in my family that still puts them up in EVERY singe picture and I have to practically tie her hands down!!!! : )
Soooo glad that Sam is feeling better!!!! I have been thinking about him… That velcade can do funny things sometimes!!! I hope it does the trick though!!!!
love
rhonda dudley
January 5th, 2009 at 12:50 am
sooo I’m assuming by the title of this post .. you guys werent the PB residents that won the 45 million in last weeks lottery. I was so hopefull for a “Here Today Gone to Maui” title. Magic Water can do so many good things with winning lottery numbers. And you guys could use a break. Oh well… Good thoughts..
Natalie asks about playing with Sam daily – lets plan bowling again I promise I’ll choose a nicer alley in the future- or a movie. Dying to see Mall Cop….
Im praying for good numbers. SO glad to hear Sam is feeling better. C u tomorrow at Dropoff. Bek
January 5th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
You look like a rockstar family !!!!! 😉 Can’t wait to show Nick the photos !
We were talking about you last night… Nick is psyched for the “rematch” !
Tell the boys that our Andrew is sporting his new SWEED jersey proudly ! 🙂
Hugs to all and lots of love,
Colleen