Kevin's Healing Journey

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Winter Photos

Some winter photos when Kevin was still wearing the air cast.

Sunday night FaceTime with Uncle Steve

Shenanigans with his air cast

Thankful for my boys

Brandywine Falls

A warm day in February

The trail got too rough for the stroller and
I had to carry Kevin on my back up a big hill

This kid has been obsessed with Christmas in the month of April. He destroyed the holiday closet. He took down the Easter decorations on the window and insisted that the Snowman go up instead. He brought several items up from the basement: the tree topper, his big Olaf blowup, the Leg Lamp, and more Christmas musical dancing figures. I was afraid he was going to drag up the Christmas tree next. I eventually put most of it away and Jon put a lock on the closet...but we did keep a few battery operated toys out for him to play with because it makes him so happy. I'm not committing myself here...but I am considering bringing up some Christmas for him while he is recovering after his next surgery...we'll see...

April Art Projects

April 8, 2017 - Hungry Caterpillar

Skills: painting, cutting, glueing, taping

April Birthdays

April 29 - Shiny Turtle

This is the art project we came home to after a date night

Happy Easter & Happy Birthday & Spring Track

Easter Hunt

Happy 16th Birthday Ryan

We made him work for his gifts this year

Spring Track with Carrie & Daniel

Happy 20th Anniversary

Jon and I celebrated our 20th Anniversary while we were visiting my family the week of Easter. We spent a couple nights in downtown Cincinnati while Kevin got to hang out at Grandee & Pap's house. Thanks Mom & Dad! My sister gave fantastic choices of places to see and eat so we could just relax and enjoy ourselves. In the last 20 years, Cincinnati has made some great changes to the riverfront area. It's now my favorite city to visit especially when it's outdoor weather to take advantage of all the walking paths along the river. I highly recommend it and can't wait to take Kevin down there to enjoy the Carousel.

Spent a beautiful evening walking The Banks

Fountain Square with purple lights and Graeter's ice cream!

French Cafe across from Findlay Market

Purple tulips in Washington Park

Beautiful View

Primavista

Breakfast with BYOChampagne

They pulled out the red carpet for us

Swings on The Banks

The Queen City

Kevin living it up at Grandee & Pap's house

April 26 - Anniversary date at Sarah's Vineyard

Spring Dance Recital Video 2017 "I Feel Better When I'm Dancing"

Here are few video's of Kevin's group dancing to their song "I Feel Better When I'm Dancing" by Meghan Trainor - featured in the 2015 movie Peanuts.

This video is the last minute of the song and dance. I zoomed in on Kevin because I saw him start to smile but missed it on my recording.
Kevin Dance Recital - Spring 2017

This video is about 7 minutes and includes all the dancers in his group along with the trophy presentation. Kevin smiles around 1:40 in the video.
Kevin Dance Recital Spring 2017 full

This video is about 3 minutes and is the entire song and dance. Kevin smiles about 1:23 in the video.
Class A Spring Recital 2017

Spring Dance Recital - April 29, 2017

Kevin's second dance recital with Dance Unlimited. We caught him smile a little during his performance and we were able to get his picture with some of his awesome dance friends.

Kevin's smile

"I Feel Better When I'm Dancing" Yeah, Yeah!

Oh Eh Oh

Take a bow

Kevin's first trophy

Thanks for coming to see Kevin dance!

Ms. Kellie - Dance Unlimited's Fabulous Instructor

Kevin sent Abby off to prom with a kiss

Dance Helper Abby

Thank You to Abby's Mom for the
flowers and goodies for Kevin

My Blog

This blog was created to keep our family and friends updated on Kevin's healing journey. It is also our hope that others may find this blog to give help and hope to other delayed kids.

About Kevin

They told us Kevin would never walk or talk. But with lots of prayers, hard work, and extra hands, he began walking when he was four years old and we continue to have faith and hope as we wait patiently for his speech to develop. Kevin is now eight years old. He is diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy due to a brain-injury he had before birth that was caused by a stroke. In 2006, before Kevin was 2 years old, we found Glenn Doman’s book "What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child" that had answers to help children with special needs and developmental delays. We began an individualized home treatment program for Kevin immediately and have been dedicated to our program ever since. We spent three years with the Doman family at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential (IAHP) and now we are with Matthew and Carol Newell at The Family Hope Center (FHC). Twice a year we return to Philadelphia where Kevin receives a neurological evaluation to determine the progress he has made in the last six months. Then they provide us with an individualized, program that puts me in charge to help Kevin develop and reach his fullest potential.

Do You Know a Delayed Child?

The best recommendation we can give to another parent with a special needs or developmentally delayed child (brain-injured, brain-damaged, mentally retarded, mentally deficient, cerebral-palsied, epileptic, autistic, athetoid, hyperactive, attention deficit disordered, developmentally delayed, or down's) is to read Glenn Doman's book What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child and/or Dr. Coralee Thompson and Dr. Philip Maffetone's book Healthy Brains, Healthy Children. By simply reading these books, you will gain valuable information to help your child which will begin to unlock the potential your child has. And best of all you will learn that there are other options to helping your child that you can do yourself. We would also highly recommend attending the parent course at FHC or IAHP. To read how our journey began and the successful progress Kevin has had refer to the January 2010 blog archive.