Time to press "PLAY"

You know how when you take a vacation it feels like you push STOP or PAUSE on your real life? The past 2 weeks have been like that for the Lewis family..... only we haven't been on vacation.

2 weeks ago today we pushed STOP.

Jacks fall stopped life as we knew it. Tomorrow we will attempt to push PLAY again. But it won't be starting back up in the same place.

Obviously Jacks fall was by far the scarriest thing we have ever been through..... however, in spite of that I feel like the past 2 weeks have brought a lot of blessings.

First and formost God is letting us keep Jack. We don't take this lightly. In fact it has reminded us that all our kids are on loan. It has reminded us how precious all of our children are. Here we are on a walk. Oscar & Calvin got scooters for being so brave and helpfull during our family emergency.

We've watched our community come out of the woodwork to support us in prayer - which was amazing. We've grown even closer to our local family (and we were pretty close to start). I watched my mom & dad and Darrens mom drop everything to be there for us. My brother and his family showed up when we couldn't get things together. They all stepped in when we needed them most. And they suffered with us & were terrified with us. And we are closer because of it. And as for the 5 of us we've been refocused on each other. We've been able to spend the time since the fall doing just that.

Quality boy lego time.....

We also visited the firemen who responded to the 911 call. That was super fun for the boys.

Jack is healing physically way faster than anyone thought. Emotionally we are still dealing w/ sleeplessness, nightmares, fears, etc. Here he is doing some medical "play" to help him work through what happened to him.

Isn't he cute? He gets a little better every day. We all do. Thanks for checking in w/ us. We've been amazed by the outreach and concern from all of you for Jack. Thank you so much!

Why Jack is destined for greatness....

Last sunday Jack leaned on a screen in an open window that turned out not to be attached at the bottom. Meeting no resistance what so ever, he fell 20 feet onto our concrete driveway below. I was in the hall. Darren saw it happen out of the corner of his eye. His scream, "go downstairs" started the scarriest several hours / days of my life. We were taken by ambulance to OHSU. Jack was given x-rays, CT scans, abdominal ultra sounds, later a 90 minute MRI. Turns out Jack must have landed on his bum. He has 9 injuries (fractures, contusions, etc) starting in his hip / pelic area and up to his middle back. His organs, brains, nerves, everything else is totally fine. He is a miracle. He has ZERO bruising and other than where his IV was put in ZERO open wounds. Yup he fell 20' and has no cuts or bruises. None. Here he is w/ his neck brace in his room at OHSU. He loved visitors. Especially his brothers.

So his treatment is a back / body brace for 4 week to 3 months. Turns out no one really knows how fast little kids really heal so we'll see. We have a tiny walker which we were told he might want to use in a week or two...... He's been home less than 24 hours and has already taken several steps w/ his walker all by himself!

Darren ran out & got him a little chair since all the adult chairs he needs to climb into and obviously w/ pelvic fractures can't do that. He LOVES it! Darren also bought an assortment of super hero tee shirts. Since he is superman and has litteral "armor" for now.....

And we have a tiny wheel chair. The boys love to wheel him around the loop in our house.

God saved Jack. He will have our eternal Praise for that.

We are also trying to get the word out to check your windows / screens. If something like this can happen to us, something like this could probably happen to anyone. KGW did a story that was on the news. Here is the link to that. Here is a web site w/ the same mission. www.stopat4.com

Labels

We are 2 days into summer vacation. Oscar started labeling stuff this morning. This gives you a HUGE peek into his personality. Hmmmmm I wonder where he gets his lable / listing skills from? Now..... how to steer this into something more productive......

Kindergarten Graduation

It's official. We have a "grader". Oscar graduated from Kindergarten this morning. So cute.