Charlotte has more procedures to help her walk.......

Traditional Chocolate Milk.  I always buy my kids chocolate milk to settle their stomach after going under and getting those horrible IV's. The promise of Chocolate milk relaxes their mind too! Gotta love chocolate!

She was fascinated by the speaker on the  remote.

Charlotte has gone through several procedures recently at St. Joseph's Hospital, such as the Lumbar Puncture.  She is a tough girl with a lot of faith.  She is always telling me that Jesus is going to help her walk. Just recently, it broke my heart though, when she asked, "When will Jesus help me walk?"

We went and donated blood as a family, toward Charlotte's Study at the Barrow Institute and even Kalicia was excited and being brave wanting to help Charlotte walk until.......  She saw the needle.  I have never seen her so scared, she kicked and fought the doctor, nurse, Loren and me off of her.  All the while through her tears, saying, "I want to give blood to help Charlotte."  So she wanted to do it.  We didn't want to force her.  She finally got the courage up and held as still as possible, laughing and crying all at the same time, trying to be tough.

Later that same day, we went swimming as a family......  Kalicia started screaming with excitement and cheering Charlotte on, getting all of our attention......   Charlotte was climbing up the ladder of the pool in the deep end, got out,  balanced her self on the edge of the pool without holding on to anything and jumped in!!!!!  Everyone of course cheered and Charlotte was beaming!  Kalicia got even more excited and announced to everyone, "Mommy, Mommy, look..... donating the blood worked! She is doing better!"

After we left the hospital late in the evening.........

 .....we stopped by Aunt Jessyka's house to see her new baby, Elin.

(Charlotte is so excited to have a small baby in our home again!)

And we got to eat some yummy food that Aunt Satya brought over.

(She is always so good at taking care of everyone.)

 Then after a long day, she curled up in Grandpa Merrill's arms.