Day #2, Austin had another successful day. WOW! As difficult as it is to leave our lives back home and come all the way out to Chile, it has always been worth it. As I said coming out here to Bill, "I'm not sure if I can do this again", therapy starts and I see the amazing things that Austin does, and I say to myself "I know I can do it again, no matter what it takes." Austin started off with the morning session walking with very little assistance (a small wrap around his chest area) for 18 steps. 18 STEPS!!!!!!! Wohoo Austin!!! After doing other exercises as a "get to know where Austin is session" he was able to balance after many different aerial movements. Austin's brain has logged those previous messages and is moving on!!!! This afternoon, Austin was able to do many different balancing exercises with either a bilateral ankle hold, or one or the other or none. If you don't remember from last time, an ankle hold is Ramon's goal with each child, that to him means good things. Austin biggest success today was being able to balance on boards slanted all the way from one board high to five, all with the ankle hold or none at all, for up to about 2 minutes. Not an easy feat if you think of it, or even try it on your own. Perfect balance. Here's to another great day in Chile, and god willing great sessions tomorrow. Thanks for following Austin. Big Hugs!!!

Day #1, Awesome Austin is at it again. What a great first day Austin had. Ramon was quite impressed with how Austin was doing for the most part. Some things, well Austin just has a stubborn brain. I guess I'll take credit for that part. Overall a great two sessions. Austin was showing Ramon alot of his new walking skills and quite impressively I might add. I hope I don't jinx the therapy, but looks like we are going to have a great two weeks and hopefully come home farther ahead. We were really proud of Austin and I guess our therapy sessions at home with mom and dad cme have done some good. We are doing something right. Bill's reward.....NFL este noche. Yes, monday night football. We left him at Ruby Tuesdays to have a fun night. More blogging tomorrow.

We have arrived in Chile safe and sound. We had two great flights, although long Austin did fantastic on both of them. Moved into our new place for the next two weeks that we are sharing with our friends from Arizona. All is going well so far. Weather is nice and cool. I'm actually cold for once and don't remember the last time I felt like an frozen pop than a melted one. We went grocery shopping today and stocked up on some essentials for our time here. The great benefit to shopping on Sundays....all the samples they give out including diapers, food and the one we liked best.....the shot of pisco sour, a type of alcohol here. Right as you grocery shop. We felt more like we were having a night out as a dj played 'brick house' and 'it's ladies night, oh what a night' than doing our shopping. Needless to say, that has been the entertainment for the day. We are going to get a good nights sleep for therapy tomorrow. Our first session will be at 11 am, same time as our east coast peeps, 8 am for all our west coast peeps. Hope all is well with everyone. Pray Austin has a successful two weeks. Hugs and Kisses to all!

Here we go, trip number 2 to Santiago. We are leaving Saturday October 3 and coming home on Saturday October 17. We are really looking forward to our trip. Austin has made alot of progress over that past 6 plus months. Hope he struts his stuff for Ramon. Watch for daily updates while we are there. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers. Especially Austin for all the hard work he has ahead of him.