January 26, 2014

We had the most wonderful miracle in our family this week.  Monday was MLK day so we decided to go to Valley of Fire with the Deans.  We pulled in to a campsite and Kata and I stayed there with the little girls and Bob and Collin went to keep an eye on the kids while they climbed.  They climbed for a while and then Danny came back and said "Did you know Seth just fell really far?"  And then I saw Bob carrying Seth back looking a little limp.  Seth had been up on a high, fairly wide ledge with Maeli.  Bob was watching him and couldn't tell he was in much danger, but there was a lot of loose gravelly rocks near the edge that Seth stepped on and slipped.  Bob and Collin watched him fall head first about 8 feet onto the rocks below. Somehow right before he landed he turned enough so he landed on his side.  He was really in shock when he came back, but the only injury he complained of was scratches on his arm, chest and thumb.  He wanted bandaids for everything.  So we got him all bandaid-ed and had him sit in the car for a while, but by the end of the night he was running around and happy.  There was nothing wrong with him.  Bob slept with him that night, but he was fine.  When we first checked him out it looked like he had a pretty good bruise on his hip that I thought would hurt for a while, but it didn't.  Bob gave him a blessing when we got home and it said he would be completely healed.  We can't even believe how blessed we were that day.  I'm so thankful for Seth and my Heavenly Father who blessed us so that a little accident didn't have to be catastrophic for our family.

We also recently found out that Collin Dean lost his job.  They're looking like crazy for a new one, but there's a good chance they will move.  I'm really praying that doesn't happen.  That would change so many things for us.  We'd all loose our best friends.  We're all such better people because of the Deans.  We love them so much.  I know things will work out as they should, but I really hope we get to keep the Deans.

I'm going to get appointments with Seth's doctor and maybe the elementary school to ask some questions about learning disabilities.  We've always known that Seth moves at his own speed and when he wants to, but I'm wondering if there is more to that.  It's taken the last 6 months for him to learn to consistently count to 10.  He had a hard time keeping 789 in order.  And getting him to memorize his name and address and now sight words is extremely hard.  It's frustrating for him and me.  It seems like he know how to retain some kinds of information.  He constantly says her instead of she.  I've corrected him countless times, but he never changes.  I don't know if he actually has any kind of disability or he just learns in different ways.  Hopefully I can find some different strategies for helping him learn.