For Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month, we'll share their story again.
The boys are from an American family. Conner is nine years old. He has a younger brother, Cayden. Now, there is another brother, Cooper. It was when Cayden was two months old when his parents learned about his cerebral palsy.
Cayden has spastic cerebral palsy, but nothing stops these brothers.
Cayden can't speak or walk, but he loves racing.
Big brother Conner, races for him and with him.
They entered their first triathlon in June 2011, and have been racing ever since.
Conner tows Cayden in a raft while swimming,
pulls him in a trailer for cycling
and pushes the trailer during the run.
(Source - Team Long Brothers)
and why Conner is happy to finish last, so long as he is with his brother.
You'll see why the boys earned the Sports Illustrated Kids award in 2012.
Dexter is the eldest in his family, so we are still learning about siblings and cerebral palsy.
Videos and stories like these make us feel hopeful.
We know his sister loves Dexter. We know she understands, already, that Dexter is a little bit different to her... that she can do many things that Dexter cannot.
We don't know whether she will ever race in a triathlon with Dexter, but we know she will be there, beside him.
Already, this little one year old girl has started wiping the drool from Dexter's face and carefully putting his drink bottle to his mouth.
It's this little girl, who might show us the way forward.
And, she already pushes him around when he's in anything with wheels!
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