One Year

It was one year ago today that Jackson had his shunt placed. When it was first placed I was constantly worried about it malfunctioning or getting infected. Now one year later it is still working great. It was also about one year ago today that Eric and I finally realized the severity of Jackson's syndrome. Before he was diagnosed with hydrocephaly we would read about kids with M-CM and think that Jackson just had a mild form of the syndrome. I know that we were in denial at the time and it just took us three months to really accept that we had a special needs child. I know that God placed Jackson in our care for a special reason. Jackson has taught us so much about love and patience and he reminds us that God is always in control. I know that God has great plans for Jackson and already Jackson has touched so many peoples lives. Just in the past few weeks Jackson has really started to show some progression. He is now able to sit unassisted for short periods of time and he is starting to get what he wants by doing a "commando crawl". His crawl is basically him reaching out with one arm and then he will push with his leg to move forward and he rocks back and forth doing this until he gets to what he wants. The first time Eric and I watched Jackson do his "crawl" we were both almost in tears. All of Jackson's accomplishments are so huge to us. So hopefully crawling will be coming soon!!