Skyler celebrated his fifth holiday in the hospital today, in isolation nonetheless.  As sad as we all were about being here for Easter and not being able to do our big Easter egg hunt with all the cousins, we decided that we were going to make it a good one even though Skyler wasnt allowed to leave his tiny little room.  Last night we set out Skyler's Easter basket and set out carrots for the Easter Bunny too.  Skyler decided he wanted to leave a trail of carrots for the bunny starting from outside our door leading to his basket and then my bed (dont ask me why he wanted the bunny to go to my bed..silly boy) He also drew a map for the Easter Bunny so he knew where to go.  During the night he still has to have his vitals taken, get hooked up to his IV meds, unhooked, labs and cultures drawn and re hooked up to his IV meds, so I was worried the Easter Bunny might get caught.  But luckily he came in ate his yummy carrots and left presents without being heard.  Skyler did wake up in the middle of the night though and saw in the dark that the Easter Bunny had come already, he started laughing and kept saying "Wow that bunny is a fast one and he left a ton of stuff!"  It was so cute the way he was so excited but he knew he shouldnt be looking so he tried hard not to and just went back to sleep.  When he woke up he finally got to see what the bunny had left.  The staff also left a basket of stuff for him too.  Later some of my family came up to celebrate.  Since kids under 14 arent allowed on the floor just my mom, dad, two brothers and sister in law came.  My mom brought up a yummy lunch (thank goodness for no hospital food) and we played pin the ears on the bunny, did a pinata, frosted a bunny cake, and then played a little Mario on the Wii.  We were also going to do an Easter egg hunt in here but Skyler got too tired.  We had a few melt downs along the way but overall we had a great Easter.  Im grateful my family could come and celebrate with us.  Happy Easter everyone!!

As for an update on Skyler.  He is still having really high fevers every 8 hours, so no improvement there, but he is actually off oxygen completely.  I havent even had to give him any blow by for a couple of days now!  I am so grateful for this.  He does have a cough now that is getting worse everyday.  The doc said that he may just be trying to cough up and clear some fluid that was in his lungs.  We still havent heard any results back from Washington, but hopefully tomorrow we will.  Dont hold your breath though because one thing I have learned about being in the hospital is that things always take longer than they are supposed to.  They did do another CT of his lungs the other day to see what the nodules are doing and they have stayed the same.  Im sad they are still there and havent gotten any smaller, but at least they arent any bigger.  As hard as it is, Im trying hard to look at the bright side of things.  So even though he may have two very serious infections going on and we may be here for awhile, at least his cancer is still in remission, he is off oxygen, and we are up in ICS not the PICU.

           Here is Skyler putting out the carrots for the Easter Bunny



The trail of carrots...

Can you see those two little carrots in front of our door?  Cute huh?

Here he is drawing his map for the bunny

He even put an X by my bed to mark the spot saying thats where he needs to stop

Here he is looking at all of his goodies.  He thought is was hilarious that the Easter Bunny brought him underwear.

He said he didnt want candy from the Easter Bunny (the chemo makes sugar taste yucky to him) so he got peanuts and other snacks in his eggs.

Even though its Easter he still has to do all of his normal hospital stuff

This is my mom with the food she brought us.  Thanks mom!

Skyler thought it was yummy too! Dont mind the hair, he is starting to lose it so its in a funky stage.

And this is one of his little melt down moments. 

My awesome family about to pin the ears on the bunny.  Skyler thought Ty looked funny

And this was the result, not too shabby!

I forgot to bring a bat for the pinata so we called Kids Crew (volunteers) and the only thing they could find to hit it was a guitar.  It worked and we only had a couple minor injuries.  Look at my mom's face, I think she was scared..haha

Sky is the one that broke it open.  Way to go buddy

Skyler helped frost the bunny cake, but most got into his mouth.

This is Skyler's loot from the pinata!

HAPPY EASTER FROM ME AND SKYLER