"Holiday Playgroup Fun"

Connor had the BEST time today at playgroup.

The topic today was "Holiday Fun" and there were gingerbread houses and cookies to decorate, stickers to play with, a rice & bean box to dig in with holiday toys buried in it, a choo-choo train, and best of all-Santa came! He sat in a corner the ENTIRE hour and waited for the kids to warm up to him and come over. One of the therapists was waiting with her camera and whenever one of the kids got close-she snapped their pic with Santa! So hopefully I'll be getting a "face-shot" of Connor from her in my e-mail, since all I got was the back of Connor's head with Santa. :)

Connor was so cute with Santa-he was signing "please candy" over and over again to get more candy canes! Every time Santa gave him one-Connor went and gave it away to someone else. (Awww ) He probably did this 25 times, lol! Anyway-it was sweet to see him being so charming and cute and friendly. Daddy was pretty impressed with the house Connor made when we showed him afterwords.

Physically, he is doing well right now. He came through steroid week like a champ, thanks to the new med we decided to add to decrease the side effects of "roid-rage"
He has been having to take the Vicadin this week, just to cut down on the pain he experiences, but tonight he went to bed without any! (Yeah Connor) So now we should be good for a bit until round 6 next month.

On a sad note-our local hospital has made the decision to close the doors on the PICU unit forever. :( I cannot believe this is happening in a town as large as ours! All the more seriously ill children will go to Atlanta from now on. This doesn't really effect us, since all of Connor's treatments are already in Atlanta... But it DOES effect my sister who is an RN in the pediatric intensive care unit and has been for a long time. She still has a job, but a changing one now I suppose. I just think our city can do a lot better than this.

Love to all and thanks for checking on us,
Debbie