I feel like we are sprinting with Jett's progress! Watching him is like watching handwork and a miracle collide. It has been an incredible honor to have a front seat for. 2014 was a year for the books for my Jett!
Last January we were told by a specialist that he may never be verbal....now he is speaking is sentences. I remember walking out of that appointment trembling. I remember praying to God the whole way home asking "What would thou have me do now?"
On that way home I recalled a distinct memory from a few years earlier. Candi and I were sitting on what would be Winnies nursery floor....folding laundry. I just had found out I was expecting a little girl and we were elated. Candi showed me THIS video of a good friend of hers who had a little girl on the autism spectrum. Her friend said in the video that when she found out her little girl was autistic she cried for 8 hours.... and talked about this amazing school Clear Horizon Academy and how it had changed their lives. Candi and I sobbed during the whole video. I remember Candi turning to me and asking at what age can you stop worrying about autism? I quickly replied at 18 months! Offering a silent prayer of gratitude that this wouldn't be my little boys trial as I watched my 19 month old little boy tip toe out of the room......
So I called Clear Horizons Academy...
They had an opening and invited Jett for an interview
I cried during most the interview (i'm my mothers daughter;) We were buckling our children in their carseat when CHA director told us that they would like to give Jett the spot.
From here things fell into place so beautifully. So orchestrated that I couldn't for a second question if we were making the right decision.
I had fought hard the year before to make the move from Utah to Idaho. I felt that fresh air and family would be the very best thing for my children. We had bought a beautiful farmhouse in the country and were 20 minutes from grandparents and cousins! Everyone I met was kind and down to earth and Kyler and I desperately wanted to raise Jett + Wynn in a tight knit community. I fell in love with the idea of Idaho and all the people we had just met and now were going to so quickly leave behind.
We listed our home....within weeks it was under contract with a beautiful couple kind couple with several children. He was a doctor. They had planned on purchasing the home when we did but
Part of me wants to scream from the mountain tops of how proud I am and how I just might have the very best and sweetest and brightest little boy in all the world.....(and how I'm definitely not biased;)
The other part of me is terrified that if I say anything that I will jinx myself (sounds silly) and that he will slip away again... His eyes are so full of light! That little boy radiates beauty and goodness! Oh and that contagious laugh of his! We experienced a time in his short life when those two things were gone....and the world was a very bleak place to be in.
