I started thinking the other day the the secret to life is to just take one breath at a time. And then in dawned on me that breathing really is the secret to life. One breath at a time. The past month has been incredibly difficult. We noticed some changes with Finn's eyes and then his balance and knew something was wrong. We took him in to Primary Children's Hospital and left 9 days later. I'm sure that leaving the hospital with him on the 9th day I was happier than when I brought him home when he was born.
He went through a battery of tests in the hospital and was finally diagnosed with ADEM (Acute Disseminating Encephalomyelitis). Basically it is a brief, but intense inflammation in the brain that often follows a viral infection. It is very rare and can be very serious. Right now we feel very lucky that Finn is doing as well as he is and we are very hopeful that he will continue doing well. We want to thank all of our friends and family for your thoughts, prayers and generosity.
It was touch and go for a while, but we did make it out of the corn maze with both kids and without a GPS. Finn had a great time in the "corn jungle." Harper thought it was fun to, but she wasn't quite sure why we kept wondering around in circles. Along the way we also managed to find and purchase about 25lbs in pumpkins that are waiting to be carved.
Lil' Miss is ten months old. She is a funny little girl with a quick smile and an inquisitive personality. She is officially out of her infant car seat and has moved into the pinkest most obnoxious little girl car seat we could get our hands on (In our defense it was 50% off.) It is getting tougher and tougher to get her picture taken because she doesn't sit still for a second. She is also starting to stand on her own for a few seconds at a time and is working on breaking the land speed record for crawling. Because we have about 14 baby gates in our house, one of her favorite things to do is to pull herself up to the gate and start shaking them. It sort of looks like she is trying to break out of jail and I'm hopeful that it isn't an indication as to what the future might hold.
