ALL about Caleb

caleb's counts were great today!!! hooray! his white blood cells are up & the granulocytes make up 25% of them (granulocytes fight infection) as opposed to 15% the past couple of weeks with a lower wbc count. red blood cells & platelets are stable. now, a quick note before i continue (actually-i added this paragraph in after i wrote the following)-in case some of you don't know, this is an on-line diary that i choose to share with family, friends & the public to share caleb's progress, mainly about our trips to san antonio. i share the things that stand out or seem significant & may even use this as a place to vent. i try to stay humorous cause that helps make things better or else i think i'd go crazy; so if i leave things out or if i seem negative please remember those things. most of the things i write aren't proofread either so i want y'all to know i'm not illiterate. behavior was another thing. yikes! each day is a different mood for caleb. today & yesterday-talk about hyper...& it sets caitlyn off to mimic his behavior. i had an eye appt at north star mall today so we had time to go return a shirt for my mom at her favorite store-marshall's. they were fine at first then they got restless so we had to leave & get something to eat. then we went to the mall & they wanted to be EVERYWHERE. caleb was being his charismatic self saying hi to everybody which was fine but he talks so loudly. i get loud & hyper myself when i'm with him so i guess that's where he gets that part from... my mom thinks he's withdrawing from the steroids though cause it's such a significant change. it's funny cause he's so used to "the dr's office" that he just charged right into the room with me to get my eyes checked. he just made himself at home. then we went next door to eyemasters & he wanted to run around the mirrored pillar over & over & over & over & over again & again & again. it made me dizzy. then he went to join grammy & caitlyn who were sitting on a mall bench & i got back to business & then i hear "caleb!" "CALEB!". and there was poor mom with two toddlers making circles around her trying to chase each other. after about an hour (there were problems with the insurance-doesn't that figure?) mom wanted to stop at mervyn's so i talked to them about behaving. so there we go into the store & before you know it the two boogers made a beeline for the purse section (which i found out is a wonderful maze for kids wanting to ditch their parents). now i don't care for spankings & grammy doesnt either (so she says although i remember differently from my childhood) but at this point my mom was in full mexican mom mode (i'm glad she didn't have a chancla)& was like "darzelos unas nalgadas!" & she gave a light swat on his rear & i was dumbstruck like "duhhhhh" then she's like "give her one too" so i gave caitlyn a light swat. & of course, this didn't even phase them. the whole time all that was going through my head was how i'm such a bad mom & what was that lady at the sales counter thinking of us giving a leukemic kid a spanking! ay-yie-yie! i was so embarrassed at the sight we must have been & so there we go dragging them out of the store. later we went to the ross store (i wanted to make it up to my mom & told her to go shop away while we waited in the van but of course grammy couldn't leave them when they were asking to join her) so there we went again. boy we're gluttons for punishment ;)! cailtyn pooped herself & was freaking out cause i had to throw her undies away & told her nobody knew, only me & her (& now the rest of the world!)& that i had extra in the van. their behavior was ok because they were in baskets but then after a while caleb had to go pee & didn't want to get back in the basket so forget it. we drove back to del rio. caitlyn conked out but he stayed awake until right after bracketville. & he talked the who-o-o-le way! uh-oh-that was 3 hours ago, and what perfect timing...he's just woken up & is calling me. gotta go!