Goosey & Abigail made Blueberry Dump Cake! Yum!

This is Elijah Zion Dorrell's smallest big sister, Esther-Noel (almost 2), enjoying what his biggest big sister, Abigail (5 1/2), and Goosey made this afternoon. Yummy! Esther told them that they were good cooks!

Baby Elijah and his mommy were dismissed from the hospital a little before 5pm today. Melany, Erin and Alex came up around lunch time and made a stop at the hospital. I was at the hospital with a friend so ended up taking Erin and Alex back to our house and Melany stayed at the hospital a little longer to help Kathy till Nathan got back (but really to get to hold Elijah a little longer). Graham, Abigail, Joy, and Esther went to see their mommy and baby brother this morning and then came over here to spend the afternoon with us till the homecoming. The four neighbor grands enjoyed having their cousins here. And...having the older grands playing with the younger ones really helped Goosey and Grammy! Erin (almost 16) is going to stay with us till the end of next week. I must say that it has been a busy day...and I am so thankful that Woody took a day of vacation today to be here...he has been in the "thick of things" all day! We all ate over at Nathan and Kathy's tonight...a welcome home Elijah supper! We ate some of their once-a-month cooking...a yummy lasagna and we took peasant salad and blueberry dump cake over to round out the meal. After we ate, I was able to get a picture of all seven of our grandchildren together.

The research nurse from Vanderbilt called today and talked to Woody. He is to be at Vanderbilt by 10am Monday (13th) to start taking the chemo pills and have lab work. Then we will hang around for a period of time for them to see how he is doing and also for more lab work. I looked online and saw that they have weekly appointments set up for him starting the 13th of July going through to the end of August.