Time for an MRI

Aly is scheduled for an MRI tomorrow.  Please include her in your prayers today and tomorrow that the MRI will, once again, be clear.

Knock on wood...things have been good.  The spring/summer season for the swim team has started and Aly is back swimming.  She's almost making it through the whole practice and seems to make it a little longer each time.  It is an unbelievable turn around from just a few short months ago.  We have also been amazed at how well she's been eating.  I can't explain what an amazing difference we've seen.  Aly has caught Kevin and I, a few times, looking at each other, smiling, shaking our heads at the dinner table.  She'll say, "What?"  It is just awesome to see her interested in food again.  She's gotten to the point where she is trying new things and now likes many things she didn't ever like before.  She also makes suggestions on what to fix for dinner or where to go if we are eating out.  I just can't get over this "new" Aly.  She has also started golfing with us.  She decided she wanted to try golfing, not only because the rest of her family plays, but because her physical activities are limited due to her vision constraints.   We all went to play 9 holes yesterday afternoon and I think the rest of us will have some strong competition in a couple of years.  Aly hit the ball really well!  She's decided she likes golf!  Yeah!  She asked for some golf lessons for her birthday, believe it or not, so that is on her docket as well.

Her facial episodes are still happening occasionally, but seem to be slowly decreasing in frequency.  I have to knock on wood again, because every time I say that, they seem to increase again.  I asked her, at breakfast time, the other day if she's had any jaw locks lately because she hadn't mentioned any for a few days.  Her answer was, "no, I haven't."  Well, just a few minutes later she had one while eating.  Kevin called me a jinx!

Aly has been mentioning, for weeks, that she wants to go visit her teachers at Big Woods.  It is hard because their school hours start and finish before the Middle School.  She likes her sleep, so it is also difficult to get her out of bed earlier in the morning too!  We decided that tomorrow would be a good day.  We thought we'd head that way before we go to Minneapolis for her appointments.

Other than that, we are still waiting on the pool install.  It was supposed to happen last week, but the rain had delayed things.  They are now telling us Thursday of this week (of course it is supposed to rain Wednesday), we'll see!  We need the warm weather back, again, so we can enjoy it once it is in.