New leg braces

Well, Atticus got his new leg braces (AFOs) yesterday. He wasn't a happy camper about them at first. He really didn't like being strapped into them, but once that part was over, he decided that they weren't so bad anymore. Later, once we were back at Grandma's house and he could play in the floor, Atticus decided that banging them together in the air over his head was actually pretty fun!

I wasn't really sure what to expect when we went to pick them up, but they're not so "Forrest Gump" as I thought they would be. They're made of a thick, smooth plastic (almost like a beach sand bucket, but thicker), with a large strap around the top of the brace and another smaller strap across his foot. They stop just under his knees, and look like a "L" running down the back and sides of his leg and foot. The right one is yellow, the left one is green-which will help me keep them straight, and they have footballs on the straps. (Go Packers!) It's pretty funny because the father and son that own the business are actually Detroit Lions fans, so the son joked about making them blue and silver instead! LOL! (For those of you that are non-football fans, the Packers and Lions are division rivals, and they just beat us a few weeks back!)

We also had to bump Atticus up to an infant's size 5 shoe to be able to have enough room to fit his foot and the brace in the shoe. Thankfully, that's just about the time that I started saving Gideon's (my 3 yr old son) old shoes, so we had a pair handy! (Isn't it lovely how God ALWAYS provides?) With his shoes on and his clothes on, you'd never even know he had on the leg braces. He's in his ExerSaucer as I write this (watching his NFL network, of course!), so we're already putting them to work. I can't wait until my little man can crawl, stand, and eventually (drum roll please...) walk!! I'll try to be better with my updates so everyone can keep up with his progress. And as always, Keep on prayin'!