Jake's counts came back high enough to begin phase four of his chemo treatments today.  We cleared it with an ANC count of a whopping 900!  Much higher than we have been.  You just never know where the kids' going to be.  So it was up to Primary's for a fun filled day.  He had a back poke first thing this morning, which was actually quite interesting.  We were able to watch it because they did  not put him completely under this week, they only sedated him.  It was crazy to watch him be awake, but not at all aware of what is going on around him.  Almost a little creepy.  You could ask him questions and he would answer, but it was like he was not there.  As he woke up, his speech was slurred and he was so funny to listen to tell Jeff he has four heads and say "mommy your sooo funny." for no reason at all.  His spinal fluid came back clean...no leukemia cells still!  Yeah!  Always a relief to find out that news.  Jake also had an iv push today.  He had Vincristine and a new med (have to look up the name).  This new one is also the major one that causes mouth sores in some kids.  Just one more side effect that we get to watch for.  But, all in all, it went as smoothly as can be.  Steriods begin today also--our favorite thing.  We should start seeing the side effects in about 7-10 days of all of these new medications.  We keep thinking that there is no way it can be as bad as the last two months have been.  It will be a fun ride!!!  

Here are a few pictures from the last couple of weeks that I am just now getting around to blogging...

I DON'T KNOW!!! My dad skiied on it but he only goes 34 mph while the big boys go 36 so it's not set up right for him. I haven't been able to go back and ski on it yet but i will!! Soon.

How's Jake?
AWESOME! While we were in the hospital last week they finally figured out he has had a virus in his intestines for the last 1.5 months and we got on the right anti-biotic and he is doing GREAT!! Fever is gone for the first time in over a month. No more bathroom breaks every 8 mins. He's eating great. He's gained 2 pounds in the last week! He even started walking again 4 days ago. He hadn't really walked in the last month or so. He is talking great and is a completely different kid than he was a week ago. He was really going in the wrong direction up until a week ago. We couldn't be more grateful for the thoughts and prayers.

I'm sure Heidi will have some pic's pretty soon of the boys. Cole started pre-school this last week. He loved it. He seems to be getting so big to me so fast! He cracks me up.

Some of my buddies in the neighborhood are buying street bikes.  Heidi is, how do I say this, not being very supportive of me buying one.  My buddy Will let me borrow his and I talked Dave into taking a ride with me.  We had an "experience" and our relationship will never be the same.  Here are a few pics from our ride together.  

So I just have to say that 'yes' I am one of the big nerds that was so excited for this dang book to come out.  Love it.  In fact finished it already.  (Not that sitting in a hospital with nothing to do for three days helped at all or anything)  I loved it!  I went at midnight to get it (hence, the big nerd part).  I have to admit that it was my favorite part about the book (going at midnight I mean.)  I went with a bunch of girls in my neighborhood to Walmart at 11:30...had a book in hand by 11:45 and then had to stand in line until they opened up the registers at 12:01.  On to McDonalds for a coke where Karli decided to dump her drink all over everything and then sat in the car until 2:00 in the morning laughing our heads off.  It was great and something that we should definitely do more often!  The best part was that the Walmart employees had these Team Edward and Team Jake t-shirts on.  My friends decided that I needed the Team Jake shirt for MY Jake (huge Edward fan over here).  They had no more left, so they persuaded the manager of walmart to give me the one he was wearing by pulling the cancer card.  So now I even have a Team Jake t-shirt.  Thanks girlies...I owe you one!!!

On Friday Jake had a blood transfusion. They also took some blood and some of the tests came back positive for infection. Saturday morning we got a phone call to go back to the hospital and they'd have a bed waiting for us. That was nice of them! He has an infection in his line from his port, they think. So he is on two new antibiotics and is doing fine. The infection can be very dangerous if they don't get it taken care of. Also, if they can't take care of it with the antibiotics they might have to remove his port and give him a new one. Let's hope for the best. He still has a fever but hopefully they can get rid of that in the next little bit. We are hoping to go home on Wednesday...so if you have any good movies to suggest, I would enjoy that! Apparently there was a new book that came out the other day so Heidi enjoys coming up here so she can just sit and read! She went to Wal-Mart at midnight the other night to go get the next book in the vampire falls in love with some girl series. (I can't remember the name of it but I know you know which one I'm talking about!)
Still no ski. Hopefully tomorrow.