Day 471 – Grayson’s Journey

Dear family and friends

Grayson was quite alert all day today. Starting from the moment he woke up, he was bright eyed and a bit more verbal than he has been in the past few months. At one point this evening he was with me prior to a meeting at our Boy Scout Council Headquarters. He spent the longest time looking at pictures on the wall of Scouts at places that he was familiar with from his years in Scouting, now almost a decade ago – Camp Chawanakee, Camp Makualla, Camp Whisett and the National Jamboree. He identified many places verbally for me as I asked him what the pictures were – Gettysburg, Liberty Bell, Statue of Liberty, Jamboree patch trading, the climbing wall at Camp Chawanakee – he really has quite a memory of these places!

Grayson was particularly wound up this evening before bed, and it took quite a while for him to wind down and go to sleep. Several times the alarm went off as he exited the room. There seems to be a correlation between the alertness and the inability to fall asleep quickly. We'll take alertness!

Pax!

Brant