Where's the snow?

Brynn loves making snowmen( so do I). Unfortunately the snow just has not been sticking at our house, so brynn keeps asking when are we going to play in the snow. Well, i'm not too upset that we've had a mild winter, it's made it a lot easier to take ammon to and from his appointments. However, two weeks ago there was some snow on the ground. Brynn and I planned to make a snowman after church. By the time we got home, it had melted and she was almost in tears. Last week we had a blizzard over night and so the next day when the sun came out, I changed Brynn into her snow clothes right after breakfast. Already a lot of the snow had begun to melt, so this was about the best we could do. (i'll post a picture when we get home, just imagine a very small skinny snowman with gumdrop eyes) After about 10 minutes, we had our fill of trying to make something out of very little snow, in sunny but windy conditions,we were back inside. It very anticlimactic, but Brynn was happy. We made more paper snowflakes and had our hot chocolate.


Ammon almost survived the week. He threw up a few days at the beginning of the week and then seemed to be doing pretty well. He was
sleeping a lot, but yesterday we were dancing to Dynamite. Well throughout the night he started crying pretty hard and his temperature started to go up and down. Then around 4 or 5 am he started breathing heavy, but finally calmed down and went to sleep. I stayed next to him because i was not going to move a muscle and risk him waking again. After a few hours I noticed he was burning up and knew we needed to take him in. We are in the PICU tonight in an isolation room because he is neutropenic. One of the chemos he was taking this week is known for causing fevers and blood counts to fall, so maybe it was just a matter of time. Right now he is peacefully resting after the trauma for the day. Hopefully he does not have a virus and we just have to wait on his blood counts to go back up. I'm really hoping for a short stay.