Now you see it, soon you won't

It has begun, folks. The beginning of the end. About a week ago, Kenneth noticed that his facial hair had mostly stopped growing. So, we figured the hair on his head was next. Two days ago, we started noticing Kenneth's hair around the house. Just a hair here and a hair there, you know. Not much. But, if you pull at a couple of hairs on his head they come right out. Kenneth was secretly hoping that the hair loss part of all this wouldn't actually happen to him- that he had some sort of super sonic hair to withstand the effects of the chemicals. Every night when we go to bed, we wonder if we will wake up to his hair completely gone, but it hasn't happened yet. Let's just say, I'm not the only one who has to clean out the drain in the shower nowadays! So far, you can't tell by looking at him that he is losing his hair.

We warned the girls weeks ago about Kenneth losing his hair. We have also told them that it is starting to happen. In Emma's lunch time prayer yesterday, she prayed that they wouldn't be afraid of Daddy with no hair. The good thing is, children are so accepting and loving and will adjust quickly to Dad's new look.

Speaking of new looks, the rest of us all got haircuts yesterday and today. I feel so much better with my hair cut!! It had been way too long and my hair was very unhealthy. I actually got some layers this time.
Here I am after my haircut. Yes, we still have Christmas decorations up. We haven't gotten around to taking them down, plus, we don't have enough lamps/lights in our house, so we enjoy having the trees with lights up!
I finally, after over 4 1/2 years, cut Emma's hair for the first time and she cried. . .because she wanted MORE cut off! From the longest part in the back I cut about 5-6 inches off. She said she wanted her hair to look just like my new haircut. What a sweetie! I also trimmed Arianna's hair and Kenneth cut Grant's hair this morning as well.

As a general update on how Kenneth is doing: he's great! In fact, he is doing so well, that he started working part-time from home this week. Only 15 hours, but really that is enough under our circumstances. (You know, 3 small children who can be very noisy and busy and always want to be next to their Dad!) He'll keep it up as long as he can. His appetite is really up, so he is trying to eat whenever he feels like it to counterbalance the loss of appetite to come again with the chemo.

The next chemo date is the 18th of January- next Tuesday. We have a wonderful friend who is so great to organize the babysitting for us so that I can be with Kenneth. It is very comforting to him to be able to have me there with him. The Doctor said to expect 8 hours this time.

We feel so thankful for all of you who are offering such great support and prayers for us right now. We are grateful for you!