Lauren has an appointment today to meet with Dr. Finlay to check on her past chemo treatment and to go over her next and final chemo treatment. We'll also discuss her headaches and her next MRI on Nov. 11th. Coincidently, she hasn't had any in the past 10 days (while at the hospital), but did have one yesterday (at granny's house). Also this morning she woke up with a rash all over her body. Poor kid. We're thinking the rash and headaches must be an allergic reaction to something and not related to her tumor. We hope.

While in the hospital Lauren realized that we had forgotten to celebrate Belle's (the beagle) 1st birthday. It was on Oct. 12 (I think). So yesterday we had a surprise b-day party for Belle. Lauren went to Target and bought Belle a card, toys and a new collar with diamonds! She then had to sneak everything into the house so that Belle wouldn't see them. She made a huge cake (made of both wet and dry dog food, as well as cat food, since Belle loves to eat the cat food and of course dog biscuits on top), it weighed more than the dog. We lit a candle and sang "happy birthday to Belle." Of course, for my bday in August I didn’t even receive a card or anything, but I'm not bitter. We also celebrated Marissa's birthday who turned 3yesterday. Of course, unless we go Disneyland, she'll still be 2 (since
kids 2 and under get in free), unless she has a growth spurt. I'm
kidding...that wouldn't be a good example. We'll just have to leave her
at home when we do go.