Good news all around!!!

Hooray! We got the braces today. He's not gotten to do more than just stand in them for a minute or two because they won't fit down in his shoes. But tomorrow we'll go find him a pair of shoes that they will fit in and then we'll get to see how much they help. Everyone is holding out high hopes for these braces and so are we. They are extremely cute, we'll post a pic later this week and so far John likes them.

The other good news was the transition meeting yesterday with the therapists and First Steps coordinator and the principal from the Slater Elementary School. John turned 2 1/2 yesterday and so it was time to meet the school officials because at 3 his therapy and such will be handled by the school system. We were all kinda sweating this meeting because of the horror stories we've heard about school districts refusing to let the little deaf kids continue with the Moog School and other things. But God has once more put all the right people in all the right places for John's good. At 3 John's care will transition to the public school and the principal was impressed enough with the therapists that he currently has and the care that he will require to agree to contract with Moog and with our other therapists so that John can continue on as he is going. This is monumental good news, way beyond what my mere words convey. Oral deaf education is very specialized, it's a very new thing and the Moog School is one of the very few places that teaches deaf children to talk. To be able to keep John in Moog and with Desiree, his occupational therapist who has been with him since he was a year old is a big huge blessing in John's life and in ours!!!

Our little stinker is doing very well. We have of course been through the whole puking/med cycle again and his GI specialists are still trying to figure him out, but he remains cheerful and down-right silly. He is sleeping in full goal-position at the moment and storing energy up for tomorrow. I'm sure he'll be a hoot and will be looking forward to time in the gait trainer and playing. Oh and by the way, today he was good enough at moving around in his gait trainer purposefully that we didn't have to wait for him to come to the breakfast table he was waiting there on us!