October 1 10:00 pm

You all are so encouraging to me, thanks for all the comments.  Today was a good day for the whole family, my parents included.  Micah is definitely headed to St. Louis tomorrow ( unless he listens to me in which case we would be breaking out of the joint in the middle of the night and hitching a ride to Jackson : ) the caravan leaves Vandy at 10 AM.  Thomas and I will follow the ambulance, get Micah checked in and then try to decide what we're going to do about the rest of the family  For those of you who do not know me as well we have 6 other children that are home schooled  so we are trying to find a place that would be suitable for us, nothing extravagant, just a space to keep our stuff for a while.  Not knowing how long we will be there we are also trying to find a place where we would not be invading on others, not everyone can handle that much noise for long amounts of time.  
Enough of that on to the good stuff.  I got to see all my kids today!!!  It was a good time for all, even Micah.   I have thought several times that he is bored with all of these women around all the time trying to get him to look at them or squeeze their hand, etc... I was right.  Gretta, one of the PT's had gotten him into a chair before the kids came did her therapy and left him there so he would be better able to see his siblings.  They all came in and gathered around him on the floor and started talking.  When he finally got his eyes and head headed in the right direction you would not believe the reaction!  He was sooo happy I almost cried, he could not stop smiling at them, obviously he recognizes them.  Since they were so loud we decided to go down the hall to the "quiet room".  We were down there for quite a while talking and hugging etc...  Samuel, being Samuel decided to act goofy in front of Micah and he started smiling at him and didn't stop there, but went on to laugh at that point we were all laughing so hard that we couldn't stop then Micah was laughing at us laughing at him, it was great!  What a blessing that was.   After that Micah was tired so we took him back to the room and to bed then we took the others out to the Mellow Mushroom for some of th best pizza and root beer that I've ever had in my life.  They had a good time and we were all sad when it was time to go, but hopefully this time we won't be apart quite so long.  
I don't know when I will get to post next as we will be on the road tomorrow and I'm not sure where we are sleeping tomorrow evening, but I will be back on here the first chance I get.  I love you all and am so thankful to you for all the encouraging words.  Keep praying!
Blessings,
Tina