We survived our family trip to St. Louis with flying colors. Saturday we departed in the wee hours of the morning and made it to St. Louis by lunch time. The rest of the day we spent relaxing by the hotel pool and enjoying pizza. We were really blessed to have both Claudia's and Eloise's Godmothers come to St. Louis for some quality fun time! Sunday we visited the Butterfly House where the concentration of butterflies pleased even the four-year olds in the crowd. Eloise spent the first twenty minutes wishing (read whining) for a butterfly to land on her arm. I thought for sure we were going to be carrying a crying little girl out the door... but thanks to God's sense of humor a huge butterfly blessed Eloise's forehead with it's whispering wings. (one also landed on Claudia's tray)
Monday we headed down to Washington University Children's Hospital for our appointment with Dr. Brunstrom. Despite Claudia's extremely positive attitude going into the appointment she lost it in the office. Through the patience of the staff and Dr. Brunstrom's perseverance Claudia did end up walking with her various walkers and braces for the crowd. Each appointment the group does a video to compare and see how Claudia is progressing. All in all it was a good visit and we came home with a list of 12 recommendations and 6 months to complete them.
The ride home was a little longer but we made it home around 10 pm. Not bad for a weekend's work.
