FINALLY!!!!!!

Well, we got the word yesterday that People is doing the article!!!!! We are beyond thrilled. A few weeks ago it seemed like it may have been a lost cause. Todd and I wrote and sent a letter expressing our sadness over the article not going forward. While it is a very big deal for us to be in any sort of publication (truly!) what disappointed us most of all was that the good work of Dr. Landa and the wonderful staff at Kennedy Krieger wasn't being highlighted. Something clicked with the editors and we're back on!! We are so fortunate to have been given this opportunity to share our story through the pages of People.

In other "finally" news, B is walking!!!!! He's been working so hard using all those little muscles in those cute little legs and last Saturday it just clicked. Just this afternoon I spent about an hour just watching him walk. Walking here, walking there, walking, walking everywhere!

I'm not sure what, if anything, we said about the Baltimore County Infants and Toddlers program will make it into the article. We obviously feel very strongly about Early Intervention and the tremendous difference it can make. We have been blessed through the years to work with some truly wonderful people in the BCPS I & T program. They are all amazing people, but we have to give some special praise to Mary Pat Summers and Carole Coleman. Mary Pat has been working tirelessly with our little B to get him walking and using his muscles in the correct way. She has a big, big fan in little B, that is for sure. His face lights up when she walks in the house. Mary Pat has always answered my (many) questions, no matter how silly or insignificant they may be. And she does it all with a smile and a heart of gold. We love you Mary Pat! Our relationship with Carole goes back to late 2004 when we first realized A had a speech and social delay. She came in, got to work immediately, and gave Hubby and I all of the tools we needed to work with A at home. We could never begin to pay back what Carole has given us. I have such fond memories of Carole coming over each week to work with A--as soon as Carole came through the door A would run into the family room, sit down, and be prepared to work!! And work she did--she ALWAYS took a great nap on "Carole days." And now--5 years later--we are again blessed to be working with Carole. She is helping to get B talking more--he is such a quiet little guy. He's starting to babble more and more and we are hopeful he'll be a chipper little chatterbox very soon. It is true that his big sisters do all the talking for him, at the moment, at least!

Thanks for reading everyone--and remember to pick up a copy of People Magazine next week!!! I *think* it will be the March 29th edition, out on newsstands approximately Friday March 19th. (shameless plug, shameless plug)

Early Intervention works--pass it on!!