End of Summer

Train ride at Irvine Park
Modeling for mommy at home
Out to dinner on a summer night
Pony ride at the farmers market

My Big sister....

Early this morning the girls came into our bed, which happens more than not :) I woke up and couldn't resist snapping a quick picture. God is so good to us and every day is a new day full of fun and joy and time spent together.
Kaitlyn absolutely LOVES her big sister and if she could she would spend every night snuggled up with her...
God knows exactly what we need and he brought our Madeline long before Kait Kait was even born. He knew she would need someone to make adventures all over the house and life full of fun! I think that maybe when they are in their teens fighting over clothes I'm going to show them this picture and remind them that God gave them something that is so special and God given!!
Kaitlyn is doing great! She goes to the clinic once a month and continues her oral chem at home. She still struggles during the steroids week and can use your prayer but over all she is doing wonderful and we thank God for each and every day!!

Having fun this summer

So my house may not be as clean as I like it and I know I have tons of laundry to do but God has blessed us beyond all we could have imagined a little over a year ago....Kaitlyn is feeling great and it's been such a good lesson for us! We are taking time to enjoy our girls and have some fun this summer! Kaitlyn has turned into such a little social butterfly and we LOVE it!

Angel game!














Lego Land!




















The Beach



















Road trip with my cousin

Pool time

As the summer starts to heat up Kaitlyn only wants to be outside! We got a blow up pool (like we do every summer) and she has been begging me to swim as soon as she pops out of bed in the morning all the way till bed time! She is so active and doesn't want to bother with watching TV or staying inside, there is way to many fun things to do out side....Daddy gets a kick out out of all the fun faces that Kait Kait and Maddie make.....endless fun and pictures!!

hanging with friends

Hanging out with friends even at Costco....
This is Justin she calls "her buddy"
Always silly and tons of fun with the Fly boys :)
Love's to cuddle with her puppy

Look my hair is so cute!!

Getting all cute with my jewelry at home.....
Trying to look just like my big sister and making her laugh.....
Hanging out with my cousin at church......
Being such a love with my mommy

Kait Kait's 3rd Birthday

A few weeks ago Kaitlyn turned 3!! Praise God!! She has been going strong and having so much fun! We tried to make her day (March 30Th) as special as can be......
We started the day with an old family tradition of birthday pancakes and boy does she love those!! As soon as we could get dressed we headed down to the mall for her first present. Birthday earrings! In order to get them she paid the lady with her most prized possessions.....HER BINKY'S!! We didn't expect the strong determination to do what needed to be done, but again our little feisty one past that box over and said ok mommy I want to get my ears pierced....
To dry the tears the best way a Daddy knows how, we headed over for a nice lunch and a big birthday Sunday... The party kept going through the night (she would have it no other way) with close family and friends over for some cake and presents.
Kaitlyn will continue to blow Eric and I away with her love for life and people. Around her Mommy and Daddy and Sister have all been sick and she still stays strong. To say that we feel God daily working in our little girl is an understatement!! Thank you for all who continue to pray and support us!!

As far as treatments go she is still going in once a month and taking oral chemo at home! She is so wonderful with her pills every night! It truly is a family event as we cheer her on each night. The appointments have gone well and it feels we have entered an new normal in the Cotter home. It's different than before but feels normal and ok. We feel so confident that God will be beside us each and every day, every time we are stopped and asked how she is we love to share the new ways she is making us smile. We will continue to do our best and let you know how this cute little feisty girl brightens up each day!!

Friends and Getting the right meds

Above is a pic from last weekend when the Morales' came visit us. We had such a fun time hanging out. Kaitlyn is powering through every thing like always..

This past week was a little weird. We accidental missed a dosage of her weekly CHEMO (it is every Tuesday, and we missed it 2 weeks ago) we notified the Dr's the next day and they said she would need to skip and just take it normally the next Tuesday.. Well here is the interesting part. Next Tuesday rolls around and she has a Spinal Tap and LABS.. The spinal tap goes well, but we find out that her counts are around 600 (last time they had her skip a dosage for genetic tests she went to 5,500) and judging by her actions (as seen in the pic above) we would have never guessed it, she seemed beyond good.

Any how. . We are praying that the doctors will get the Chemo dialed in and she would be able to prevent re-lapse, but not have so much that it destroys her immune system further due to her genetic makeup.. In the end God has brought her to this place to day, and it is by his grace that she will continue, but we plead to him none the less..

PArk & Comments are fixed

SO hopefully the comments are fixed, "would someone mind testing?"

Any how, we hit the park up today (AGAIN) and had a great time,

Kaitlyn is 1 week into month 2 of maintenance. We had a bumpy start,

it seems (after getting results of a genetic test) that Kaitlyn is unable to absorb (or some other appropriate word) one of her medicines, Methotrexate.

They gave her a 1 week rest and her ANC shot up to 5000, the highest yet. Any way, now that I have probably confused most of you, I will just let you get to a few pic's

Enjoy ;-)

Crazy Girls

Kaitlyn is ALL business when she gets "Park DAys"

Madeline posing as usual

My favorite Girls!!!