Saddle bronc riding champ Spencer Wright and his family are clutching onto hope after 3-year-old Levi, feared to be brain-dead after falling off a toy tractor into the Utah River, opened his eyes and lifted his head Thursday night. 

On Thursday, the boy’s mother took to Facebook to share the miraculous update to the boy’s condition. 

“LEVI WOKE UP! I am shook,” mother Kallie Wright wrote. “We don’t know how much, but the doctor said it was okay for me to get excited about that and I AM! My baby is so tough!”

Wright family friend Mindy Clark, who has been posting updates about the boy on social media since the child was admitted to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City after his accident Tuesday, explained further in a post of her own. 

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“He opened his eyes and tried to lift his head,” Clark wrote. “The nurse was in the room and they were telling him how much he loved excavators, and wouldn’t you know it, there he was.”

In another post, Clark said Levi’s EEG monitor showed brain activity when he heard his sister’s voice telling him “how she was hoping he’d get better and couldn’t wait for him to come home.” The monitor also reacted when the family played him dinosaur sounds from one of his favorite books and when his mother kissed him, Clark said.

Days earlier, Clark and the family had a darker outlook on the boy’s condition, with the friend writing, “We… feel strongly that his spirit is no longer with us” because “his sweet little brain was without oxygen too long and there is no coming back from that.”

Levi was playing outside his family’s Beaver County home when his mother briefly went inside. When she returned, the toddler was nowhere to be found.

“I need everyone in Beaver to come to my house and help find my son in the water,” she posted on Facebook during the search.

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Although they didn’t disclose the child’s name, the Beaver County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a statement that it had received a call about a boy who had fallen into the river off a toy tractor around 6 p.m. that day.

After “life-saving measures were administered on scene,” Levi was transported via ambulance to Beaver Valley Hospital, then airlifted to Primary Children’s Hospital, the office wrote in its Facebook post. 

“[Kallie] saw his little tractor overturned and immediately dialed 911 and jumped into the water to find him,” Clark told KUTV. “We don’t know how long he had been in the water, but he had been carried quite a ways.”

Initially, the family’s outlook was grim, but testing performed Wednesday began to lift their hopes. 

Spencer Wright competes in the saddle bronc riding BP Super Series during the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo March 5, 2014, in Houston. (Marie D. De Jesus/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

“Our doctor was a little taken aback by her exam as they came in the room to end care. She felt strongly that we needed to give him more time,” the family said Wednesday. “Now this doesn’t mean that in 12 hours we won’t be right back in the same position with him in my arms preparing for goodbye but it does mean we have time for a miracle…. Don’t give up on my boy just yet.” 

Clark wrote that the family is “unbelievably humbled” by the love and prayers they’ve received since the child was injured.

“We miss our other babies, Mom hasn’t spent a night away from baby until now but Brae and Steeley are in the best hands!” Kallie said through Clark, referring to their other two children.

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Stetson Wright, Jesse Wright, Ryder Wright, Rusty Wright, Spencer Wright and Cody Wright pose onstage during the “Outside the Barrel” with Flint Rasmussen show during National Finals Rodeo’s Cowboy Christmas at the Las Vegas Convention Center Dec. 7, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Mindy Small/FilmMagic)

The toddler’s father, 33-year-old Spencer Wright, is ranked No. 40 in the world in saddle bronc riding. He and his three brothers made history in 2014 when all four qualified for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Wright ultimately won the championship.

The family was the subject of the book “The Last Cowboys” and has been featured on an episode of “60 Minutes.” 

Earlier this year, Wright won the Rio Grande Livestock Show and Rodeo in Mercedes, Texas.

Michelle Jeffers, chief of community programs and partnerships for the city’s public library, said Sunday would be her first Carnaval, and pointed to her parade float members preparing for the day’s displays of community presence. 

Many on the float work at the Mission branch’s temporary site on Valencia Street between 23rd and 24th streets during the original location’s renovation, which is due to finish in 2025.

“We’re trying to stay hydrated, getting our scarves ready, and we’ve got our ride,” Jeffers said, pointing to one of the library’s bookmobiles. “We just love a parade!”

Sunday’s parade followed a Carnaval festival that began Saturday along several blocks of Harrison Street, featuring music, dancing, food and crafts.

Musical headliners included Mexican singer Noel Torres, Latin fusion group Pirulo Y La Tribu and Honduran band Banda Blanca blending merengue and punta sounds. Cuban Latin pop star Franco was also set to perform. Previous headliners have included Santana, Tower of Power, Los Lonely Boys, Celia Cruz, Los Tigres del Norte and Tito Puente.

The festival typically draws 400,000 people, according to local organizers, and generates about $10 million for local businesses.

There was no Sunday hangover for the Rockies.

After a crushing 8-4 loss Saturday night, they rebounded with a 5-2 victory over the Phillies to take the three-game series.

Starting pitcher Cal Quantrill once again delivered for Colorado. And, for a refreshing change of pace, the bullpen was lights out. Matt Carasiti, Nick Mears and Tyler Kinley each pitched a scoreless inning. Kinley earned his second save.

Phillies left-hander Ranger Suarez came to Coors Field pitching like the leading Cy Young Award candidate, carrying a 9-0 record and a 1.36 ERA. He pitched a complete-game shutout against the Rockies last month in Philadelphia.

But Colorado beat him up early on Sunday to post a 5-0 lead. Ryan McMahon hit a two-run homer to right in the first, driving in Brendan Rodgers, who reached base on a one-out single. It was McMahon’s 10th homer of the season, and he’s driven in a team-high 32 runs.

The Rockies scored three more runs in the second on an RBI double by Hunter Goodman, a run-scoring groundout by Rodgers and a throwing error by Philly third baseman Alex Bohm.

Suarez settled in after that and pitched through six innings, allowing five runs (four earned) on just three hits. But he walked four to go with his nine strikeouts.

Quantrill was superb again. He allowed two runs on three hits over six innings and struck out five.

In his five May starts, Quantrill is 4-0 with a 1.71 ERA.

His only demerits on Sunday were two leadoff walks, but only one of those came back to bite him.

Quantrill walked Kyle Schwarber to open the fifth, Bryce Harper reached on an error by first baseman Elehuris Montero and Alex Bohm’s single to right scored Schwarber. Quantrill quashed Philly’s hopes for a big inning by inducing Bryson Stott to ground into a double play.

Philly scored its second run in the fifth on a one-out double by Brandon Marsh and a two-out single by Johan Rojas.

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