What a week!

This has been a crazy busy week....but with some NEW things from Mr. Luke. It started last week when Luke decided he could get out of his wheelchair by standing up. Good thing we were there when he decided to do it, because I am not sure what he thinks he going to do after he gets up. So, we have be careful to watch out for that. Then on Monday I stopped by Lowe's to get some flowers. I picked the kids up at Mike's mom's house...left there and not a few seconds from their house Lynsey is screaming and climbing up the seat that there is a frog climbing Luke's leg, apparently an unwelcome bonus that came with the flowers. I am not a fan of creepy, crawly things so I turn around to let Mike's step dad get it. Well, by the time I had ran up to their door and came back Luke had grabbed the frog off the window where it hopped to and is holding it. So, frog gets bottled up to come home with us. Later that night we are in the family room, and Luke is about 6 feet away from frog. He is looking at it, and I tell him to move over to see froggy. Guess what..he started scooting over to frog on his bottom, while pushing with both hands. This is the first time he has shown any interest in getting from point A to point B on his own. Yeah Luke!!!

Luke had his annual check up with his pediatrician this week also. She has not seen Luke in a year, and told us over and over she was so impressed with how much he has changed since his last visit....always encouraging to hear. Today we had our quarterly meeting with the head of the NACD. He too was impressed with Luke. He wants us to get Luke a Taos Walker and a special kind of bike he can ride outside. He also wants us to make Luke use his words when he wants something. I am always amazed at how well he can perform when someone else is watching. This week he had his PT eval. Greg had set one of his goals to do 15 sit and stands from his chair....Luke did 20!! I can barely get him to do 5 at once! He also wanted his to walk (with assistance 20 feet,) Luke did 40 feet! Today I told him to say, "Hi, Bob, " to the guy from the NACD, he did it (although very laborious)...yesterday could not get the kid to say a word.

So...we give thanks for these new things, and continue pressing forward, praying for continued and restoration. Thanks for praying along with us on this journey and believing the best is yet to come!