First, here is the story from MSNBC/Today Show:
At the funeral, they released 99 balloons, one for each day of Eliot Mooney’s life. “How beautiful it was to watch,” Eliot’s father, Matt Mooney, said on a video of the event. “How quickly they were gone.”
To many, the short life of Eliot Mooney might have been a tragedy. To his parents, Matt and Ginny Mooney, it was a triumphant miracle.
They had been told Eliot might die before he was born. Instead, he lived for 99 days. And every one of those days was chronicled by his father and compiled into a loving video that has touched the hearts of thousands who have watched it on the Internet.
“I’m surprised at the interest,” Ginny Mooney told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira Wednesday in New York. “We were just living life. We wanted to document and we wanted to remember it. It really started just to tell our friends, and there was just a world of people who were drawn to this sweet little boy.”
The parents have two blogs (one old, but full of the stories, and one new.)
