THE BIG HAIRCUT AND BIG POTTY NEWS!

Picture explanations: The ones of Joli with no shirt show you her port and scars from her surgery. That's how the nurses and doctors draw blood and give her chemo medicine. Joli got her hair cut today because it was really coming out in major clumps. It was making us so sad.... We think it'll fall out faster these days, and we'll be sure to post when she's lost her hair completely.

Okay, thankfully she has the 'Good Shaped Vega Head' as Jorge likes to call it! Joli had her hair cut today by our awesome neighbor, Carla! Thank you, Carla!! Joli did great for the first few minutes and then kinda freaked out. But, Carla was able to cut it pretty short and even! So cute!

Joli has been getting really used to her treatments. Today with the visiting nurse, she did really well and didn't fuss nearly at all. She even knows the routine -- clean with the white stuff, brown stuff, flush tubes, and then the "yellow one." She totally was telling ME all the stuff that was happening! Go, Joli! She's so funny, because she gets really disappointed when the nurses only have "plain" bandaids. She loves the pink ones and the Dora ones!

Also, in HUGE toddler news -- JOLI MADE HER FIRST BIG PEE PEE AND POOP IN THE POTTY TODAY!!!! Woooooaaahhh!! That was so awesome! We thought we'd have to put off potty training because of her treatment, but this is just testament that Joli is strong and incredible! Yup, she told me this morning that she had to use the potty (which she's done before on false alarms), but ended up making the "morning pee" in the potty. Then, she got off the potty, and said, "Mommy, I have to make pee again." Sat down, and then said, "Oh! Mommy I have to make poo." Hurray for JOLI!!

Today has been a GREAT DAY!!