April update

Teal in Kitchen

Team Timmons did not fall off the map, we just slacked on on blogging for awhile!  Here's the monthly update on our happenings!

At the end of Mary's spring break Aaron took a trip to SE Kansas with the girls to see family and participate in an annual fantasy baseball draft.  Josiah and I filled our days with a chemo treatment, painting the kitchen teal, and eating biscuits and gravy.  The only thing good about the teal is that I took a risk and tried something.  Everything else about it is bad, bad, bad.

Cousins playing dress up!

We had a lot of visitors in March and at the end of the month we celebrated Mary's 7th birthday!

In the beginning of April we had the opportunity to join thousands of other Amazon employees and their families at Chase field to watch the Diamondbacks play the Dodgers, well, mostly stand in really long lines, but there was some baseball to be had.

Stella with an Easter Bunny that has traveled
back and forth between friends for over a decade!

This weekend we enjoyed going to church together as well as celebrating Easter at home as a family.  We had a scavenger hunt for the kids that made for a fun and simple way to talk about the gospel, we colored Easter eggs, had a simple but special dinner, rested, played games, and made resurrection cookies that turned out less like a hollow tomb and more like the stone that was rolled away!


Josiah has been to church and library storytime, as well as trips to the grocery store for several weeks in a row now.  He also has just begun delayed intensification.  This is his final phase of treatment before maintenance when his protocol intensity decreases substantially.  He had been taking a medicine to increase his appetite and to say it worked would be an understatement.  The kid was going through 32 ounces of cooked egg white every 2-3 days.  He is back to weekly treatments and right now the hard part is the irrational mood swings due to steroids, the nausea, and fatigue.  Last week he had two fun surprises at the clinic.  Daddy came for the day and got to see the clinic and meet several of his doctors and nurses.  He also got to drive a mini hummer down the hall before his lumbar puncture.  It was crazy fun.

Like any good dance teacher,
Mary started her lesson with snack time!

Mary is gearing up for all kinds of end of the year fun including a spelling bee, a play, a choir concert, a school wide carnival, and of course summer break!  Stella is busy reorganizing anything she can get ahold of, babbling up a storm, and bringing all kinds of smiles to everyone's faces.