my maddy & danny

i love my maddy and danny. they are my cousins i've told you about before. you all know that maddy hasn't been feeling too good lately. we've had two big parties to help pay for things maddy needs to make her better. mommy worked really hard at that. then mom's work decided to buy maddy and danny presents for christmas. they called it "adopt a family." it was so neat. all month long, mom would pick me up from school with a bag of presents and she would remind me they were not for me. i was okay with that because i love my cousins so much. i wanted them to have lots of presents, so i was always good about it. when they were under our christmas tree, i never touched them. even on christmas i knew they weren't for me.

we had a little party for them a couple days after christmas. mommy and daddy made lots of food and had drinks for everyone. my aunt cathy brought the kids over and my other cousins matt and sarah (my aunt cathy's kids) came over too. so did grandmama and auntie becky. we watched maddy and danny open all their great presents from all my mom's friends at work and even really nice people who are just good people who asked my mom if they could help out. maddy got all this stuff for this girl called hannah montana and this doll was so pretty that i helped her brush her hair. danny let me play with some of his things too. then danny let me lay with him when it was bed time. he's really nice to me and i love both him and maddy a lot!

we also got some good news about maddy and that bad thing she has called cancer. mommy arranged for her to go to a special place called children's hospital. aunt cathy finally was able to take her and they said that her doctors have been doing a really good job right from the start in taking care of her! in fact, her cancer has gone away!! we were all so excited to learn about this! she still has to get the medicine called chemo that makes her so sick though, so that still makes me sad. i can't wait until she's back to her old self again and can just play any day that i want and we can go places together like we used to. mommy says this spring we might be able to go back to our old ways again and i hope so!