After Emma Grimsley’s youngest brother, John, was born with Spina Bifida, she and her best friend Anna Bussler decided to help other children like him by raising awareness about the birth defect. Mary Grimsley, the children’s mother, said when John was born, she and her family knew very little about the diagnosis or what challenges John, now 2, may face because of it. “That was the hardest thing at the very beginning when we found out that John was diagnosed with Spina Bifida,” Mary Grimsley said.