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Wow, that is so wonderful!I'll will, I promise. Little Diane is doing well - got some neck spasms and head pain (duh) but they have her on medication and as soon as they start to work she'll be feeling better, I'm sure. Right now she's jumping through hoop after hoop....the kid who hit her had insurance and she's trying to arrange for a rental car so she can get back and forth to work. Dustin (her hubby) has a job with really odd hours, and Little Diane is working two jobs, so she needs the wheels! And Evan is feeling tons better. He even went back to work today. Yep, work. His paternal grandparents volunteer at the Sertoma Butterfly House in Sioux Falls. It's a beautiful place, and he has always loved it there. So three years ago Gramma Jan and Grampa Paul started taking him with them....before they knew what happened he became one of the most popular guides there! Lots of kids are intimidated by the butterflies fluttering all around them and some get pretty scared. So Evan is the "kid guide" and he does a bang up job reassuring them, teaching them, and getting them excited. He also gives tours to adults! Yep, that's our boy. Jan posted two pictures of him back at work today - in one there's a group of boys from a summer camp he's teaching, and the other picture is Evan in his Butterfly House official T-shirt. There's one little boy standing next to Evan who was really scared...notice how Evan is with him - so proud of him! At the Butterfly House there is a memorial stone to Evan's big brother Austin. There's a bench in front of Austin's stone, and when he's not busy Evan likes to sit there and just remember. [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR] Official Butterfly House Guide Reassuring a little guy who wasn't sure he liked the butterflies. The first year as a volunteer, he just wore whatever he had. But the second year his grandparents surprised him with his first official T-shirt and name badge! Evan's favorite place in the Butterfly House. So yep, he's feeling much better!! I love that his other grandparents always send us pictures and tell us what he's up to when he's back there. And we do the same when he's here at home. Makes a divorce so much easier on the kids if the parents and grandparents don't play head games with the kids stuck in the middle, and none of us do that.
Thanks. You know, Evan was a typical rowdy 6 and 7 year old kid - loud, fast, always jumping or bouncing and whatever else kids that age do....then Kendra was born. She was very easily startled and had that big myelomeningocele repair on her back - he always worried that he'd make her jump and rip out her sutures. He stays with Kenny and Jenny on Fri, Sat, and Sun nights while Tam works her overnights, so he's at home there as he is at his house. Just another part of the family. He takes his role as Katie and Kendra's "big brother" very seriously, and they really are more like brother and sisters than cousins. He learned to moved more quietly. He and Katie got great joy from making Kendra smile. They learned to be very patient, showing Kendra over and over again how to play with a particular toy, or the iPad, or whatever. Every one of her achievements were celebrated. "Guess what, Gramma? Kendra rolled over! She really did!!" Then his other grandparents started taking him to the Butterfly House with them. Everything he learned about gentleness and patience he put to work there without even realizing it.Great news for Little Diane. I am thinking she may be going to a chiropractor for her neck. My sister, Dad, and I were broadsided and I can remember how sore I was in the following days.
Evan, is an amazing young man. Is he planning on continuing this vocation in college? We need more people like him and Kendra!