Our Girls 3rd BIRTHDAY!!

I have decided to have a break in my long and drawn out process of
blogging every week since Immie got diagnosed and announce!!!
Imogen's 3rd Birthday


Our baby turned 3 today the
26th of April 2007 - hurray!!!

With her Dora the Explorer cake!!!

The cake after it had been attacked...

Hi all

Wow..what a day, our baby turned 3 today, which seems such a huge milestone
especially after the last coupla months.
We are so proud of our beautiful, amazing, strong, inspiring
BIG lil girl.
Immie was a little grumpy in the morning, but made up for it after a brekie dash to HJ's
(the birthday girls request!!) and a four hour sleep the afternoon.
The afternoon Imogen put on a show that
would bring a tear of joy to any parents eye,
we saw the beautiful girl we have and had before chemo
started two months ago.
She danced, chased balloons, laughed, chatted and shone like a Happy carefree lil girl.
Heres to another 70 plus years of birthdays, wishes, photos and memories,

Thank you Imogen for being the strongest lil girl we know,

Love you xx Mum, Dad and Kody

Lots of Love
The Holmes Family

Cake Time for Immie Birthday

Dora cake...mmmm yummy

Waiting to blow the candles

One...two...BLOW!!!

I love birthday cake!!!

Immie was so excited when she saw this cake,
she could not wait for Aunty Bibby and Granny to come back from the shops,
She could not stop smiling and amazing enough she actually ATE some cake...!! ; (

Immies Birth - DAY!!!

More cooking with Bibby,
all Immie wanted to do this week is cook,
We cooked playdough, marshmallow slice, cakes, biscuits,
patty cakes, sausage rolls.....

I need a drink break, Aunty Bibby is so demanding!!!

Whaaaatttt is swiper doing on my plate....OH MAN!!

I said no more photos

Immies Birthday Dora Umbrella and Coat

More presents from Aunty Bibby...

It must be raining I have an umbrella

Surely it will rain soon!!!

Don't tell me it is not going to rain : (

This was so cute this Dora coat and umbrella Aunty Bibby got Immie,
she ran around the house shouting more presents, and then when she opened them she wanted to go outside

right then and see if she could make it rain xx

Imogen's 3rd Birthday

Immie opening her million presents....

Wheels on the bus..we love this song we always sing the
granny's on the bus, go knit knit......

More presents....

I love presents...

Imogen's Happy Birthday

Bibby and Immie making waffles for the masses

That smile..we all Love

Eating those waffles with the funny boot!!

Eating waffles and looking happy

Fairy and Scary day take two

Kody and Immie's heap of Balloons

The ward decorated up with fairy stuff

Immie with Daddy getting ready to go Home HURRAY!!

Our Fairy Immie dressed up, Jason had to go out the day before to buy her this dress as Imogen did not own one..yes I am a bad mum we hadn't got into the dress up thing. Jason did a pretty good job - hey? with a little navigating directions xxx

Fairies and scaries dress up day

Imogen and Gilly the Occuptional therapist

Stitches the hospital mascot waving at Immie

Close ups of Imogen

Imogen laughing with the clown doctor

Dress up fairies and scaries

Our Little fairy

All the nurses and doctors get dressed up too.

Queen Meghan

Swamp Monster

On the 9th of march the hospital had its annual dressup day where the wards pick a theme and go forth and decorate the ward, patients, parents, doctors, nurses, cleaners - pretty much everything that moves. Ward 3b's theme was fairies and scaries. The little children's area was decorated with all fairy stuff and the teen section was decorated with spider webs and skeletons. The whole ward was very excited, with visits from Stitches the bear the hospital mascot and eventually our ward won over every other ward - hurray!!!.
Imogen had heaps of fun with the clown doctors and nurses, we also went home that day for the first time in 2 weeks and 2 days.
We couldn't get out of there fast enough!!

Lots of Love The Holmes Gang

Week Three

More flowers delievered these roses came from
Fiona's cousins family, they were really beautiful
and even smelt lovely,
they had a small paper butterfly on the top.

Immie playing potty head and hide and seek, as
she did not want to go to sleep xx

Hi all

This week we moved rooms yet again and the time was starting to drag on when these two photos were taken we had been in hospital for just over 2 weeks. In that time Immie had a cat scan, a biopsy, her broviac installed, been to ICU twice, a bone scan, a cardiac test, a hearing test, a MIBG test, her first lot of chemo, quite a few drips installed and a heap of dressings changed.
Imogen though was in high spirits and smiled and did heaps of drawing, and was starting to get use to people prod and help look after her.

Lots of Love
The Holmes Gang xx

Some of kody's drawings

Our Family..check out Jason hair!!, he
drew this for Immie for when she was in hospital!!

Also for Immie when she was in hospital,
he draws all his drawings freehand he is so clever!!