Friends came to therapy

Melissa coming to see Josie

Hugs...amazing picture of 2 little girls that couldn't walk, STANDING and hugging each other.
The Cane Gang...Josie, Melissa and Reggie

Sweet Girls

It was a happy therapy day for Josie today. Her good friend Melissa Eger and sweet Reggie Livingston came to see the center. It was great how well Josie continued to work despite the audience she had in the room. Melissa is her friend that is already walking with canes so I think it helped motivate Josie even more. The amazing thing is that all 3 kids are Healing the Children kids that have been adopted. Very few adoptions have ever taken place in Healing the Children and we had 3 sitting in the same room. Not to confuse all of you, we used to be Healing the Children and now we are Mending Kids International. I am so lucky to have meet these great moms, Lory and Janey. It is fun to talk to someone that is going through similar situations as yours, especially being so far away from home.

Josie did 4 long rounds of cane walking with very little breaks. It is remarkable what she has accomplished in the past 4 days. This is how fast it goes...when I went to the market today, Matt asked if Josie is starting to move her walker more. Josie was in there with her walker mid Sept and could barely get it around the store. I was telling Matt that we hardly use the walker because she is almost about to conquer the canes. He couldn't;t believe that she was even trying the canes. Some days I feel like the progression is so slow and then days like today I can;t believe that I am telling someone she is practically past the walker. So much fun.

A little update on Pibb, Josie's walking dog. I talked to Sarah and Pibb has mastered his "Josie" commands already. He is doing so well that they are using him as the demo dog for there 3 upcoming speaking engagements. One of those happens to be for the state wide 4H meeting. Go Pibb!! Josie is so excited for him to come 3 weeks from today. Sorry about the video yesterday. I never could get it to load. I think it is too big of a file. I did some shorter videos today so you can get a glimpse of how she is walking right now. Ciao, Jenny and Josie

This is Josie walking with some upbelieveable catches