Haircut

It was a very good week for Stella.  The current phase of her treatment has been easier to cope with, and she is bursting with energy.

On Tuesday she was at school again for a while.  Reconnecting with her friends always perks her up, and she'll be spending even more time at school after the holiday break.  After school, Adrianne took her to get a very cool new haircut.  We arranged the haircut to make her inevitable hair loss easier to manage, although we are surprised that it has only barely begun.  It will be noticeable any day now, probably--and certainly by the time she gets very far into a more intense phase of treatment that begins in mid-February.

Of course, it's also been Hanukkah all week, so Adrianne and I get to observe the girls' nightly shrieking frenzy of wrapping paper-tearing and toy-flaunting.  At some point over the last year or two the one-gift-per-night rule was relaxed, and now we are irretrievably across the line of absurdity.  

And then there's the Wii, which arrived for Stella courtesy of a few of my old college friends.  Stella loves it--especially the tennis, golf, and bowling games.  She and I have been playing together, but I have to admit that I've also been firing it up after the girls have gone to bed.  I'm happy to say that I've finally straightened out the slice on my tee shot, although I think that I am developing tennis elbow.