We have started this summer with great news: On a visit with Dr Healy we found out no surgery this summer! Dr Healy said to have an active but safe summer and that is what we set out to do!
We started with Dream Night at the Zoo.
Played baseball with the Miracle League!
I think Sam was most excited for Camp Akela with his Cub Scouts and sleeping in a tent for two nights. Though we had some stormy nights and he decided that tent camping was not all that great.
When we got home from camp, we went right in to Day Camp at our church the following week.
We were able to see a couple of Twins Baseball Games!
By then it was the fourth of July!
July was a busy month for his sisters going off to different camps. Sam was in the Pan-O-Prog Parade with his Miracle League team.
A few doctor visits and a sleep study snuck into the summer. Thankfully there is no sleep apnea (and no surgery!), just a real restless sleeper. Anything over 5 limb movements an hour is significant, Sam had up to 30 movements and hour.
At the end of July was our town's Leprechauns Days celebration. Another parade with Cub Scouts, watching sisters in toilet bowl races and lots of fun!
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| Sam walked the whole length of the parade! |
Then Sam went off to summer school for three weeks. Believe it or not, I have no photos for that! In August we went to a family camp at Covenant Pines Bible Camp.
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| So cold in Northern MN, but had to swim! |
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| My camera stitched two photos together. See the busy Sam in the middle and on the dock! |
By this time school is right around the corner. This is the first summer in 4 years our family has had no major crises, no trees falling on kids, no broken femurs, no ambulance rides, no surgeries. We had a typical summer packed with all sorts of fun activities. We had the summer of the over comer!
Then school started with no big meetings about how Sam is going to cope in school with wheelchairs or anything else. He just rode off on the bus like a typical kid at the end of summer!
