I Graduated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had therapy today and we tried the walking cane with a small base on the bottom. My therapist said to get rid of the walker and let it collect some dust! Yahoo! Its so crazy to be moving on already... of course I was a little nervous at first but then I tried it and it was good.

So here I am asking for help again. I was wondering if anyone might have a walking cane with a small base sitting around! If you would I would really appreciate it if I could borrow it for a bit. Just let us know by calling Andre's phone at 486-7559. Thanks again for all of your help!

Ok...so tomorrow Andre and I are traveling to Indy for me to see my neuro. surgeon. I am excited to show him what I can do and to see what he will release me to do...hopefully I can lift gabe up! So please be praying for our trip.... it will be a long day however, I am really excited to spend some good quality time with my husband! I will definitely update the progress tomorrow.

Little Gabe is doing AWESOME! He is such a trooper... He and I are learning to walk again and well he is passing me up with flying colors! He is pushing his walking toy around like a pro and cruising along the couch. He has attempted numerous times to take steps by himself. He is eating really well also. We have been giving him applesauce, bannana puffs, bananas and grapes in a mesh bag (for babies) so he can suck on them. He is Loving being able to eat! He is talking now.... saying ball, "Da", and he fakes coughing, because my dad jumps around and acts crazy when he does it....and he loves to get a rise out of anyone.... the OLD Gabe is back! Thank you Jesus!
As for the feeding tube...we were going to take Gabe with us tomorrow to see if they would listen to his swallowing again. However, we were unsure to put him through such a long trip if they would not take out the tube....so between us, Gabe's Doctor, and the speech path. we decided to make the date for July 24. (Gabe's Doc. said that Gabe really needs the extra calories right now to get stronger and heal so therefore we pushed the date back a week.) This is a week from tomorrow and we are asking and believing that this is the day of celebration for his tube coming out! Please join in with us and pray that he keeps improving over the next week so we can remove the feeding tube on this day.

Keep lifting us up because all of your prayers are working!!!!!!
Thanks again
mandi