Home and Happy!!!

John had a great time visiting with the godcousins for the 4th. Despite the shared cold he really enjoyed getting to play with the kids. Our house is rather tame compared to the hustle and bustle of our dear friends house with their 5 wonderful blessings. The picture is of John playing with Rachel, Princess Pinky, our goddaughter, she liked to come by and play with John now and again, enough to keep him smiling. John enjoyed playing with the boys too, especially Nathan, their 4 yo, and he always loves those hugs and kisses from his godparents. This was the easiest trip that John has ever made and it leaves us looking forward to making a few more trips in the future.

We were all excited to get home, of course, and are still kinda taking it easy and getting over the cold and back into the swing of normal life. Today was John's first day back at school and he loved it as always. He was more talkative and quicker to respond to his teacher and really wanted to play, play, play. His little sense of humor is getting both quicker and more wicked ;-) Mr. Paul, John's PT came today too and John had a great time with him, even though he did scream at him now and again. Mr. Paul is expecting John to walk without braces in the future and he even thinks that he will be walking on his own, without the help of the gait trainer, within a year. We are so excited we can hardly sit still!!! John had a good time playing ball with Mr. Paul today and even got into kicking it a bit.

This evening while Mark was out at VBS in the country John spent the evening in his gait trainer enjoying the chaos that I've created with rearranging the sewing room. He has now drug fabric and stuff all over the kitchen and dining room and even came in the sewing room and started reeking havoc in here too. Silly little guy was having a great time though. He stands up in his gait trainer much more now, and is wanting to go, go, go, and he'll tell you that too!!!!

All things are well here and we are hope they are with you too!!!!