Saturday, February 9, 2013

National Pancake Boy - Part I

National Pancake Day on Tuesday was a blast for the entire family.  We will write more later, but here are a few pictures and links to some articles......

Falls Church News Press

Falls Church Patch

Spot on WJLA mentioning Carson

Carson on WMZQ website

Carson Hanging with WMZQ buds Boxer, Mark, Keaton and Tim


 National Pancake Day Collage.............


 Carson makes an appearance at IHOP Rockville with Boxer of WMZQ and
Jane Manning, IHOP manager.

Enjoy!

-Jennifer

Monday, February 4, 2013

Pancakes, Pancakes, Pancakes

Today, Carson and his entire class at Mount Daniel were treated to a Pancake Party courtesy of Falls Church IHOP.  This was a warm up event for National Pancake Day tomorrow.

Terry, the manager, decorated the tables, had goody bags for the kids and gave them perhaps the largest pancakes I've ever seen to eat.  After that, it was time for a pancake stacking contest!  It was wild, it was crazy and it was fun!  Thank you IHOP, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and Mount Daniel!


 Preparing for the Room 11 arrival.  Francesca had the day off from school.


 Carson and one of his best buds, getting ready to eat pancakes.


 That pancake is outta here! Carson finished a pancake that was the size of his plate!


Over 400 pancakes were prepared for the pancake stacking contest.
 

 Almost ready to begin.....

(Just for the record, no pancakes were injured during the making of this video.)

 
 Finally, the big moment....Room 11 presents a check for $721.54 - money that they raised, mostly through collecting spare change- to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  Little did they know, after all the coins were counted, the real total was over $800!  Way to go Room 11!

Don't forget to visit your local IHOP tomorrow for National Pancake Day!  Carson will be at the Rockville, Maryland location from 10 AM-12 PM.

-Jennifer

Sunday, February 3, 2013

3 months off treatment

We are almost 3 months off treatment and Carson is going strong.

Our clinic visit on Friday provided information that he has gained about 2 lbs and is now about 50.8" tall!

Counts are high - he seems to be fighting a cold/beginnings of an ear infection - platelets and hemoglobin looking very good.

No concerns - YAY!!

We are looking forward to this week when we will help Leukemia and Lymphoma Society celebrate National Pancake Day at IHOP.

Carson's 1st grade class will have a pancake party at IHOP tomorrow and Carson will make an appearance on Tuesday at the Rockville, Maryland location to be a guest server.

He is excited and so are we!

In other news, Francesca and her high school swim team took home the District championship last night.  They were awesome!  Francesca won districts in every event in which she was entered....200 medley relay, 200 Individual Medley, 100 fly and 4x100 free relay!  All swimmers will be advancing to Regionals next weekend.  Good luck!







More later......Jennifer