Hair - coming and going!

We saw the first signs that Celia's hair is growing back this week - she is very excited and I can't stop stroking her fluffy head! Although it is hardly visible she didn't wear anything on her head today at kinder so I think it is a big psychological step forward.
Mabel on the other hand lost some hair as she had her first haircut on Wednesday. One of the UK playgroup mums was a hairdresser back home and now she does the kids hair during playgroup so that saved me a bit of time, effort and probably money as Max needed a haircut too.
  






We had chemo last Friday and I also set up a meeting with the resident psychologist as the phobias just keep coming. The latest one is Vampires. We were reading an ABC book and V for Vampire came up. Celia asked what a vampire did and I stupidly told her. She then became hysterical and kept shouting 'why did you tell me that! You know I will have nightmares now!" so we stayed up reading nice stories for another hour and eventually she went to bed but wouldn't let go of my hand and she did indeed wake up crying in the middle of the night. I think the phobias started after she had the MRI (which most 4 year olds get a general anaesthetic for but they thought Celia wouldn't need one) so I am hoping the psychologist can help.
We had an induction session at Celia's new school yesterday and she loved it so I'm feeling a lot happier about her starting in February as up until now she has been saying she didn't want to go to Blackrock primary as her kinder friends were going to other schools.

It is Mabel's first Birthday today which means this time last year I was in intensive care and 'baby kerr' was in an incubator. I have been looking back at what a truly hectic year it has been for us (well 15 months to be more precise) but light is most definitely at the end of the tunnel now.