It has been a hectic week but a very good one by our standards. The kids have been working hard in school. Tyler has all perfect grades and is concerning me over our bet about Harvard. Samantha is doing equally as well in school and Luke tested out as gifted. I must clarify that gifted means at his age that he is creative with his ability to learn not his knowledge. I would never say that boy is not creative so I can understand why he tested very high.

Tyler just called me on the phone with fantastic news. After more than three years of no wieght gain he has put on three ibs since his last visit. This is huge. I couldn't be happier because this has been my largest worry with him. I hope it continues but right now it is a huge step in the right direction. Tyler's face has more dystonia because of his new DBS settings. He is able to pronounce things better than he could before but there are other symptoms presenting on the left side of his face.

Samantha called me yesterday and explained that she walked all the way from her doctors office down the stairs and to the car without falling once. again, this is HUGE!. She works very hard at building her muscles and concentrating on walking. She used a walker to help stabilize her. She was feeling under the weather this week so it created dystonia storms earlier in the week. She had a hard time not shaking and moving around but she seems to have gotten better now that she feels better.

Luke took liquor bottles and jello cups and made some kind of science experiment with his friend this week. I am sure our neighbors think we are not teaching his correctly and maybe we are not. He is crazy but innocent and loving.