Saturday Evening, July 14th

Nothing but good news today! Allie is progressing and doing wonderfully and has jumped to an entirely new level of understanding and remembering.

Got here at 8:00 this morning and Allie was up and milling about doing here own thing. To my amazement, during the noght Allie began writing down questions she wanted to ask us today and she had drawn a picture of our family, Dad, Mom, Matt and herself. She also wrote down that she wanted to call Rachel today to talk to her about the play. Right now we are watching Allie on the DVD doing her part of Ms. Dorothy Brown in Throughly Modern Millie. She is fixed on the play right now and watches it lot which is cool because she is rembering alot of the lines and the actions. She said tonight, do you know how excited I was to be in the play and I said Yes I do to which she said it's sad because I can rember practing all of the time but I can't remember being in the play. I can't remember doing it. I said you will, look how much you are remembering and we move on.

We started the day by going to the zoo and Allie was excited to see the animal, however, when we got there the place was a zoo (haha). The place was just way to crowded and we didn't think it would be a good idea to bring her in there plus she said her legs were hurting and she didn't want to walk, so we left and went to brunch. Allie wanted eggplant parm so I took her to a greek diner. They only had chicken parm but that was plent good with our girl. After nine weeks of hospital food some chicken parm and spaghetti is like dining at the Waldorf. We sat there for an hour and a half and just talked and Allie did wonderful.

We came to the conclusion that part of Allie's mean streak may have had to do with missing a cycle and then coming up on one and being hit hard. Poor kid - everything is magnified.

After lunch we came back to the rehab with a successful outing under our belts full and happy at the progress. I forgot to tell you that they took her stitches out this morning and she didn't need drugs and it was done while she was awake while they did it. This is so huge it's beyond words that they let them do it.

Nancy and I took Allie to her room and put the play on for her, then asked if she wanted so alone time and she did so we left and went to the mall. I wanted to go just to me in the main stream for an hour. While we were there we both got chair massage from some chinese guys in the middle of the mall that did a form of massage called Qi. Well that was the best $12 we each could have ever spent. These guys made 10 minutes seem like an hour. If you ever need a vaction, go to the mall and seek one of these guys out.

Long one tonight:

We got a call at the mall that some of our friends were at the rehab visiting Allie so we shot back real quick and our frinds Pam and Clyde and Pam and Shauna were there with gift and cookies for Allie. Well after a while Allie wanted some space so Pam and Clyde, Nancy and I went out for dinner - now here is something really cool. During dinner Nancy's cell phone rang - it was Allie!! I forgot I left my cell phone with her and she text messaged us. She said call me I miss you. How cool is that??? She entered Nancy's cell number and text messaged and spelt all of the words right. Then she did it a few more times, each one longer and better.This is incredible guys we are breaking through huge hurdles today.

We know Full Recovery is on the horizon and it is awesome. This trauma thing is quite a roller coaster but everyday is a learning experience with Allie and with God. We are always provided for and everything is possible for him who believes.

Have a great night. Thanks for your love.

Allie's Dad