Clap your hands, clap your hands!!!

Hey y'all! I haven't posted in a while and I truly apologize! A couple of things have happened in the meantime. Isaiah has started to clap his hands, he is making attempts to crawl forward (I think he might be tired of getting stuck underneath all those chairs, haha) and he can switch from the crawling position to sitting and vice versa. He has also started to "talk", dada seems to be the word of choice.......it's ok, he's still a mama's boy!

Joseph got me a kindle fire for Mother's Day and Isaiah loves the piano app!

They have more apps that are perfect to help encourage him to use his right hand, the kids drawing app for example is so colorful and he loves seeing the colors appear when he moves his fingers across the screen. Other apps will be more appropriate later on, like the preschool app for instance. Nia is a sucker for that one! Moving puzzle pieces across the screen, identifying letters.....all things where she has to use her hands, so those apps will be great for Isaiah later on.

With May coming to an end so will the Pennies for Pediatric Stroke. We've received the first couple of dollars from Infant Development Program and tomorrow I will pick up money from KFC, as well as from the base's post office Tuesday morning. I'm anxious to see how much has come together. Next year I will hopefully have more businesses participating. This also means, you only have til Thursday to make a donation that will help Isaiah win an iPad. For every $25 donated, he will receive one entry in the drawing, that doesn't mean you need to donate $25, you can donate less or more. Just like the kindle it will help him with motor skills in his weaker arm. Of course, you will still be able to make donations after May 31st, however, the drawing for the iPad will only consider donations that were made by May 31st. You can find the link to Isaiah's firstgiving page in the left upper corner. Every single dollar will be much appreciated! There are lots of children who's stroke had a much more severe effect on them than Isaiah's stroke did and unfortunately their health insurance do not cover the majority of therapies the children receive. Isaiah may benefit from your donations personally as well! He just got measured for his splint - I had mentioned the splint in an earlier post - and we're not sure our insurance will cover it either. 

By the way, Isaiah's MRI is coming up this Wednesday! We're getting ready to head to Fargo Tuesday morning and will be back Thursday evening. The last MRI was done when he was only a few days old and with him being on medication at the time he slept through it. This time will be different, depending on how he does he may or may not need a sedative.

Standard MRI machine 

This MRI will hopefully come back completely normal without any signs of damage from the stroke. Please keep Isaiah in your prayers!

I sincerely thank you all for following Isaiah and us on this journey and for all the love and support you show! Love,