Lydia Jeanne Robsinon

My new neice!! I love her!!

 

WC and her babies!!

 Proud Meena to three beautiful girls!

Natalie @ 7 months

This little girl just makes me giddy looking at her!! She is so lovable and just smiles at everything. I can't believe we are over the 6 month mark....it won't be long until she is one! Sniff Sniff.....

She is low crawling EVERYWHERE. She is getting pretty fast too! Everything that WC does is hilarious to her and she watches WC very carefully.....maybe she's taking mental note on what NOT to do so she won't get spankings :)

Natalie has been on table food for a couple of weeks now. She eats almost whatever we eat. Mostly fruits and veggies. I'll give her some meat every now and then.

Sleeping still isn't something that happens a lot in this house. The Trobough children just don't sleep well. At least Natalie will eventually stop crying and sleep! She takes about three 45 minute naps...maybe a little longer if I'm lucky. So I don't nap often! She is waking every 3-4 hours still at night, but more out of habit than hunger. So sleep training will be coming soon!

Over-all, she's pretty darn easy. It's neat how different both of the girls are, but they have a lot of similarities (including sleep habits)!!!

Cleveland, OH

 This past week we traveled to Cleveland to see another Sarcoma specialist for Chris's case. So we decided to make it a mini family vacation! We had not been ANYWHERE in a really long time, and we definitely deserved it :) After the appointment we headed to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo which was incredible. It was so clean and organized and the staff was more than willing to help us and accommodate Chris's wheelchair. We were quite the sight to see...lemme tell ya. I had Natalie in the backpack carrier and WC was sitting in Chris's lap while I pushed those two around. The hills made for a great workout :)

 Our favorite exhibit was the Elephants. Such awesome creatures and so beautiful!

So I guess I'll write a little about the doctor's visit :)
We had decided that Chris will not do anymore chemo at this point. His scans were clear for a few months so the only reason we'd be doing chemo now is just for precaution.  This was a big debate among doctors and friends, but Chris feels he is doing what is best for him! No one else can tell him otherwise. We've been SO blessed with different people's opinions and believe me, we considered EVERY

 point of view and we are thankful for everyone's input. The cancer is weird. There is no protocol because  .4% of every millions of Americans develop this kind of cancer.  We have been encouraged to just go with our gut instinct! Unfortunately, there is an 80% reoccurance rate with this, so we have to be prepared for it come come back! Neverless, we are SO ready to be "normal" again. You can't even imagine.......And don't! HA!

We also ate great food and enjoyed the hot tub and swimming pool at the hotel. Just a great get away...even though Natalie was sick the whole time! She tried to be happy at least :)

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!

(Too bad neither of the kids would look at the same time at the camera just ONE time! ha!)