Today is Mother's Day.
I had planned on writing some sweet blog post about my sweet kids and everything that I had learned since first becoming a Mommy.
And that is a whole lot.
I was going to include some sweet things about my Mom and Mother-in-Law.
I will have to do that another day. Because today, all I can think about is my sweet baby Cole.
On April 20, I asked you to pray for him. See the post here. The very next day, we saw some arm lift that we had never seen before. Thank you, God. And then yesterday, he started bending his arm. Praise God! What a sweet Mother's Day present from the Lord. In our internet research, we have read about compensatory movements, and our doctor warned us at Cole's first appointment that Cole's body can trick us into thinking that we see the right arm movements, but he is actually using other muscles. So I emailed this video to Cole's doctor, and this is what he had to say: "Very encouraging! That does look like good active shoulder and elbow motion." Now men rarely use exclamation marks - my husband and I laugh at this all the time, because he will sometimes dictate messages to me, and I fill them with lots of "!!!!!!!!!!" and he makes me delete them!!! I have learned more than I even know from this trial that we are going through, but I can tell you 2 things that I have learned to treasure: the bending of an arm and a well-timed exclamation point.
Please join with us in rejoicing the Lord's work in our son. He probably still has a lot of therapy and hard work ahead of him, but we rejoice in this new development.
James 1:17: "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change."
James 1:17: "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change."
