It was a whirlwind evening last night...warning I am in the typing mood...so this is going to be long!!!

As we drove into our complex Robert casually says, "oh there is the gator in the lake"...WHAT?????????????????????????????????? I know common sense in Florida is not to walk to close to lakes and to look for the birds....no birds...bad sign...but to actually see the gator oh....as we turn into the complex!!!!!!!!!!! So NATURALLY I yell...turn the car around...I wanna see!!! There he/she was .... chilling out in the water...so I grabbed my camera and took pictures and then I notice that the gator is looking at me...hmmmm....time to run back to the car...don't want to make the local news....."Scrapbooker mom could not resist picture of gator and was eaten alive clutching onto her camera!"

So we went gator watching .... not the normal evening for us!

Then our little fiesta girl was the life of the party!!! Last night we went out to dinner...an out of the way little restaurant that we could not imagine would be busy in the middle of the week...well.....there was a FIESTA!!!! Two birthdays were going on and there was a HUGE table down the middle of the restaurant with about 30 people and a woman on a microphone singing DooWop music! Our little Warrior Princess started clapping the moment she walked and shaking the tushy!!!

The nice thing was that other then this huge party the restaurant was empty so Savvy had a dance floor and boy did she need it...can't stop a little dancing queen when she feels the music in her soul! She had on pink little cowboy boots and a cute little jean skirt and she showed off her moves...it was so cute that the fiesta goers stopped their party to join Savvy's!! They all turned around and started clapping and cheering her on as she showed them her Super Papi's best 1970s moves that she has learned!! She was so darling! The birthday girl came over and gave us a huge piece of cake for Savvy (although Mami and Papi ate it since Savvy couldn't...yummy....raspberry filling! )

Savvy got a little pumpkin from someone else and just kept on grooving..this went on until our meal came out. Then she sat like a little princesa and ate her meal. We always ask the manager to read the ingredients on the boxes of what Savvy is being served and we have been really lucky so far that everyone has always been understanding and so far so good (although we always carry the Epi Pen) so we explained the whole allergy thing and liver transplant thingy and the birthday girl learned about it and then I guess the news traveled REALLY fast because I had left to clean the dancing queen's tushy and I understand that a Shriner came to our table. Robert thanked him and his father (also a Shriner) for all of the work they do for our children ... and they said they did not work with liver transplants...we know ... Robert explained that although they do not work with transplant kids we know of so many children whom they do help in a direct way..at the RMHouse the Shriner's help so many...and helping our children is the greatest gift any man can do.

My heart went to my dear friends at the RMHouse ... we thank you too... you help our children and it is the greatest gift any one can do...and those who volunteer their hours...they only do it because they already know there is no greater reward...I went to sleep last night thinking of all of them and thinking of Dan...Super NJ RMHouse volunteer...thank you for making my heart smile!

So as you can imagine the dancing Diva was EXHAUSTED when we returned home...YEAH! Maybe she will sleep in ... WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think she may have been overly stimulated or drunk on pineapple juice (she had it for the first time last night and LOVED IT!) but she woke up at 2 am...then at 3 am then at 4 am...then decided she was not going to go to sleep...it was like having a newborn in the house.....tired Mami....and tired Super Papi that needs to head t to work....ahhhhhhhhhhh...no worries...the dancing queen woke up energized this morning ready for the next fiesta!

So for lunch this little diva has her dogs at her feet...not sure how they snuck in because we tend to separate them during meals...Why? Because she feeds them...and "we" do not feed them table food....she breaks all of the rules!!! So, I look up and see her giggling while her fingers our in their mouths and they lick off the preserve that she had on her toast...then she sticks her fingers in her mouth guess the doggies missed a spot....yeah...I am just sharing THIS story hoping someone reads it to my mom...Savvy's Abuela (hahaha).

So, as you can imagine it is naptime in the household ... even the dogs are sleeping...Super Papi is at work and hoping to hear more about Savvy's results. Turns out her white blood cell counts are still low...too low for comfort...this is the third lab in a row...not good. So we have to go to the hematologist ... can't imagine that the BLOOD doctor is not going to require more BLOOD.....errrr....but I was told not to freak out yet....yeah... our transplant coordinator knows me...and knows my fear of the "C" word... just could not handle that not now....not exactly a year after we had to move out of our home... NO this Halloween my little princesa is GOING to go trick or treating!!!! So, as I have often selfishly asked so many...familia, friends, strangers...please keep our little Warrior Princess in prayer...please let her continue to lavish in her good health and let her stay out of hospitals beds....please...

And our little friend, Xander, we learned that his daddy is not a match...same thing that happened to us with Savvy...please continue to keep him prayer...that his "Gift" arrive soon and that like our little Warrior Princess that it be the "perfect" liver for this little Warrior.

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I know that I sound like a broken record...I have no problems going up to strangers and telling them that the family of our donor angel saved our Savvy's life....please...it means so much...please share the stories of these little Warrior's share their stories so that one day parents like myself do not have to beg and plead and live with broken hearts for their child was placed on a LIST...a list...NO this is not acceptable!!! 

Please become an organ donor and tell your loved ones.

As per unos.org - As Savvy was last year, Xander is this year...represented in this number...it is not just a statistic...