Day 175 - Wednesday June 6, 2012

Today was Stephany's 16th birthday.  She requested that we have our traditional Christmas morning breakfast today, since we didn't have a "real" Christmas this year.  Jenn made us breakfast, but we went to her house in shifts while someone stayed at the hospital with Bridgett.  Anyway, our tradition is to have bacon, little pig sausages, and waffles with raspberries, strawberries and whipped cream.  So, what a breakfast we had.  It was very fun and a good experience for everyone.  We ate fairly late, so it was really brunch (just like on Chirstmas morning actually!)  Afterwards I had an idea.  We had recently purchased an XBOX Kinect for Bridgett's therapy.  She is supposed to do the sports games daily although with her neck and shoulders hurting she has not been able to yet (tomorrow we will try though!).  Quite a few years ago Tyler bought a Guitar Hero although he didn't own the XBOX--Brad did own an XBOX and they were were roommates in Utah back then.  So, knowing that Bridgett loved Guitar Hero before when she was in Provo for the past four years (she never played at home obviously because we didn't have one) and remembering that Bridgett was very good at it, I asked Tyler to dig his Guitar Hero out and hook it up.  And thus started the day of Guitar Hero!  Stephany and Tyler played a lot this afternoon and Arrianne got some time in too.  Bridgett watched everyone play once and then she tried to play, with mixed results.  Guitar Hero requires quite a bit of coordination.  Then she sat around and watch the other kids play....and all the while she playing in the air and doing a good job of getting the right fingering (or whatever you would call it!).  She was having fun watching and "playing" while they were actually playing.  After a while she played again and she was able to get through an entire piece!  I was happy about that--amazed really but I expect to be amazed by Bridgett so I wasn't surprised!  We will have to make sure to let her play on a regular basis--I think it's great for her.  All day long Bridgett continued to feel great and she would say that she was fantastic, wonderful, awesome, amazing, brilliant, or whatever other adjective she could come up with at the moment.