1 year down, 1 to go

Well, this posting and update is a week late, which undermines its significance somewhat, as it has now been over 12 months since Abigail received Emily's marrow. Amazing how fast and yet how slow that time has gone. We have a good excuse, as I missed the blog on this pivotal moment because we were away on holiday. We're just back from a week of fishing, relaxing and generally catching up with Abigail's Aunt and Uncle over from the UK and a whole swag of grand parents.


The fishing was relaxing, but as always there were patience issues, with both girls expecting to catch a fish about 2 sec after the bait hit the water. Sand castles soon became more interesting!

However everyone had a really good time, and we were able to see lots of nice things. At the end of this though everyone, including the big kids, were pretty tired...


Other than that the other big news was that Abigail has had her first haircut. Her hair wasn't long enough before treatment, so this was another big day and milestone in her life. She has steadfastly refused to get it cut for weeks, but then suddenly decided that she was big enough to get it done, so we went straight to the hairdresser to get that fringe out of her eyes.

Sadly this new development of hair has also resulted in demands for very complicated hair styles such as pig tails. I'm sure buns are just around the corner, closely followed by the dreaded plaits. I'm really going to have to improve my hair dressing skills!

Good news medically is that all of her tests have been good, and that she can now have chicken pox vaccine and a couple of others to bring her back to what she should have received for her age. So, so far so good. Boring to keep reading perhaps, but it never gets old to type it!