Darren, "the helmet guy", manually measuring Harper's head. He put a stocking cap on her head to better see its shape.

 This is Harper in the laser scanner. It literally scans her head in a couple of seconds, and then sends the info to a computer. We can see the outline of the shape of her head on the screen as soon as its done. I don't know if you can see it, but at the top of the screen is a little blue toy that has a tiny spinning light in it. Darren held it in front of her and turned it on to get Harper's attention and keep her still while the machine scanned her head. Dr. Jimenez used one almost identical to it while taking photos of Harper. Bro. Kelley sells these exact same toys in the camp store. I bet no one knew the camp store carried neurosurgeon's toys!

 Darren and Harper. She wouldn't take her eyes off of him. You can just see the corner of the STAR scanner behind them. It looks like a magician's box.

 Harper and Barney at the mall in San Marcos.

Harper has learned to roll while we have been gone. We lay her on the quilt and away she goes. Mark had to get her out from under the bed this evening. I don't know if you can tell, but this is her jungle gym of toys that she had gotten against and somehow straddled. She worked and worked until she got loose and could keep rolling.


All of these pictures were taken today, Monday, Feb. 20, The date is messed up on the camera.

We went to STAR Cranial center to have Harper measured for her orthosis (helmet) this morning. They did this at the hospital Wednesday before her surgery, and today we went for the post-op measuring. These measurements will be sent to Florida (Orlando, I think). Harper's helmet will be custom made there and next day aired back to San Antonio. We will go pick it up tomorrow at 1:00 PM, and Darren will custom fit it to her head. One of the adjustments we will have to make is that she will get hot wearing the helmet. He said after a couple of weeks her body would acclimate itself to wearing it. She would begin sweating in other places, instead of losing so much heat out of the top of her head. She won't need anymore onesie undershirts, I guess.

Harper's forehead is still very swollen right where the bone was removed. Darren said it was OK, though. I think you can see a little bit of the swelling in the pictures.

After our appointment this morning we rode up to San Marcos to the outlet mall. This is the biggest outlet mall I have ever seen! It was hard seeing so many stores that I didn't have time to go into. You could spend 3 days there and not get into all the stores. Bath and Body had a 90% off shelf, what luck!

We have been on such an emotional roller coaster ever since Harper was born. She is such a little trooper, though. She will sometimes grab my face and kiss my tears. Blessings come in unexpected packages, I guess. We so appreciate your continual prayers.

Much love, Brook

Lamentations 3:22, 23   Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.