Kindergarten and various sundry fun...

School is going really well, she's formed a little posse to run with, Bruno keeps a close eye on her, and "melt-downs" are becoming fewer and farther between (although she got a standing ovation from her classmates a few weeks ago for going one whole week with no incidents... yikes!). She is behind a bit in the academics part - too early too tell if this is due to her age (maturity) or some effect from the events of the last two years - time will tell. Every day she progresses - she has become a complete chatterbox and gets into all the appropriate "trouble" - see Exhibit 1:

Exhibit 1: Trouble...

For now she is holding her own and enjoying every minute.

First in line for ice cream at this years NeuroOnc picnic

and telling Ms. Rita what for...

Gianni and Daddy

 

Scaaaaary! 

 Rolly Polly Pumpkin Heads

"Relatively" little scare
 Breaking with my newly acquired and lax tradition of only updating with MRIs ... well not exactly: We had a scare earlier in the month, with Gianni showing up with a bit of a limp - to avoid the slow reveal, she is doing great. Tony and I took her straight to Dr. Fisher and Trish and they set up a spinal MRI for the next day to rule out the unspeakable (we usually only scan the brain, but if her limp were tumor induced it would have likely been due to a metastasis to the spine).  Dr. Fish and Trish have deduced that she injured the nerves in her ankles (exasperated by a chemo late effect called  neuropathy), something we can totally deal with...Of course it is no small wonder we did not see this earlier, her favorite activities are soccer, "racing" her friends (them running circles around her - she still loves it), and jumping - all things that would cause ankle pain in any average kid.

Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery.