Baby Fin update.

Fintan has gotten so feisty, he pulled out his breathing tube once. And "he smiles a lot when you tell him what a good boy he is," his mother, Gina Schiltz, 37, said.

Fintan also breaks out in a grin looking at the clipboard on his bed plastered with smiling pictures of his four older siblings.

On his headboard, not far from the medical equipment monitoring his vitals, Fintan's devout Roman Catholic parents placed a cross fashioned out of surgical tape.

Fintan's bed is also adorned with a picture of Mark Schiltz's late sister, Sheri, who died from leukemia in 1989.

Mark Schiltz said the couple's faith in God helps them cope.

"I think a lot of people tend to look at sick kids as a burden, but we view little Fintan as a real blessing. We could either get angry or bitter at God, or we could embrace this cross that he gave us in our lives and embrace it wholeheartedly," Mark Schiltz said. "He's a real gift."

"Plus," Gina Schiltz interrupted, eyeing Fintan cuddled up in his colorful blanket, "how can you be angry when you look at that cute face? Look at his beautiful eyes. Look at his smile."

"I think a lot of people tend to look at sick kids as burden, but we view little Fintan as a real blessing. We could either get angry or bitter at God, or we could embrace this cross that he gave us in our lives and embrace it wholeheartedly. He's a real gift.

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