thanks all for the nice comments …  sorry, i haven’t posted for quite some time.  it’s been a crazy summer, but we’ve had an almost normal summer.

because we had the surgeries done in the beginning of summer, we had only a few follow up doctor visits to attend to.  arielle and erynn took summer school at loyola high school – arielle took intro to geometry and erynn took pre-algebra and study skills.  they, however, missed the last week of school so that we could go on vacation with the family.  we had a lovely time with the cousins in clear lake, ca.  we had some memorable moments watching “toy story 3″ with the bugs in their first ever drive-in movie and the little cousins with their comments about clear lake.  to top it all off, the kids finally learned to ride bikes and they’ve been riding ever since.  we’ve been spending some time together riding our bikes on the bike paths in venice, santa monica, manhattan beach, and redondo beach.  they can’t seem to get enough of biking and it’s fun to ride bikes together.

arielle went to camp with her new choir this past week.  i am told that she had a nice time bonding and getting to know everyone in the choir.  she came back last night and is really tired but excited to start school and to sing in the choir.  she doesn’t even mind the 7am practices 3 times a week.  they already have a concert scheduled, i am told, on friday, aug 27th at their school.

arielle had a clinic visit this morning and a scheduled pet/ct scan this afternoon … just before school starts next week.  the visit went smoothly and the doctor said that since we did the biopsy in may, if the area lights up again, we know it’s the thymus and isn’t anything to worry about.  we had a little trouble with the iv and had to redo it before she could continue with the pet scan, but once it was in, she was able to relax and just sleep.  she isn’t scheduled to see the doctor again until november and another pet scan is not scheduled again until next year.