Wow its been awhile..... sorry we've been busy

It's been awhile since I last posted......we've been really busy with school and therapy. Noah has been doing really well. He's battling his second cold of the season right now. Morgan, Emily and Noah all got a cold the first week of school. they all got over them quite easily, even Noah with no fevers or missing school. Hopefully he will get over this one just as easy.

Noah on his first day of school. He was not happy about it. As soon as we turned the corner to his school he started to growl and act like he was too sick to go to school that morning. He did end up having a good day.


I caught Noah on the floor with his hands on his belly. They look so sweet.

More post to come,
The Sheaffers

Extreme Home Makeover

All most three years ago I sent in an application for Extreme Home Makeover. Sadly I've never heard anything back. I just wonder how they decide to do one family's request and not another. I think if they didn't go to such an extreme they would be able to help more families. Do other families submit their own applications? We don't need an extreme home to make us happy. I just want a house that is handicap accessible. Running hot water in our upstairs bathroom so we could take a shower. A ceiling that didn't leak in our downstairs 1/2 bath. ( I don't even want to know how much mold there is) I would love to have a walk in shower in our 1/2 bath downstairs so, I could give Noah a shower. He has gotten way to big to stick him in the sink. This has nothing to do with Scott's ability to take care of his family. He does a great job with that. I'm forever grateful for a loving husband and a wonderful Dad to our children. Things have just gotten very overwhelming lately, trying to make ends meet let alone making repairs to our house. Here's praying we have a better year coming.

Morgan,Emily,Noah and Boris too....

This is Noah last summer with his swim vest on. We had to use the swim ring as well to keep his head out of the water. He would arch and dunk his head completely in the water.

This is Noah in the water yesterday. We don't need to use the swim ring anymore.

When the girls went to New Orleans, they met the real Santa.

Maggie had one kitten 4wks and 3days ago. We have decided to keep it. We have named it Boris.

Baby Boris

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Wonderful News and a Update

Praise God!!!!!! Thanks again to some more earth angels...... We'll be traveling to Chicago next weekend for our next ABR training. I had given up hope that it would happen. We needed the money by Monday. A dear friend from our church stopped by with an envelope of money enough to cover the rest of the training. Several church members had donated money to make it happen. We are so grateful for our church family. Below are some before an after pictures of Noah:

Fall 2008 Spring 2009

In the Fall of 2008(pictures on the left) Noah's shoulder girdle instability and misalignment makes support on the elbows impossible and it doesn't provide a sufficent platform of support for the body.

In the Spring of 2009(pictures on the right) Noah exhibits much better shoulder girdle stability which results in the significant improvementof the short arm position. Further, the strengthening of the anterior neck and reduction in conflict between the shoulder blade and neck have contributed to the intial emergence of improving head control.

Thanks again to all of Noah's Earth Angels....... We Love You!!!!!!!

Time to pack for Chicgao!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!

Renewed Hope

Noah has been wonderful. Hopefully he doesn't read this and prove me otherwise. The picture above is Noah sitting in his chair. As you can see his hands are together in his lap. He'll even pick up his arms like this as well. If you haven't been around a special needs child you may not know how big an accomplishment this is. Noah couldn't do this before.

We recently asked for a letter from the ABR center stating the changes in Noah. We are praying we can get insurance to realize that this is working for Noah and start paying for it. I know it's a shot in the dark but, it's worth a try. I've also been able to find a organization that may be able to help in the future. It's called United Health Organization. At this time they have no more grant money left for this year. So keep praying that this will work out.

As for our next ABR training in Aug. we are getting closer thanks to an Earth Angel (you know who you are...THANK YOU very much) We now have a little over $1000. I'm going to call the ABR center on Monday to see if we can apply our deposit we paid in Oct. to what we owe for Aug. We were to get it back when we completed 4 training sessions. If they will do that than we have a better chance at being able to go.

Until next time...

Susan

Fireworks

Noah and I ready for the fireworks to start.
Morgan and Jacob


Issiah and Madelyn

Emily and Tyler

Noah really enjoyed the fireworks this year. I could tell he was looking at them and he would even smile or jabber when he saw one he really liked.

These two were his favorite, they shot up like this about 5x in a row.

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Shelby Bicycle Days Parade

On Saturday July 11th Shelby had their Annual Bicycle Days Parade. Noah,Issiah and Maddie had fun getting all the candy that was thrown at them.This was Morgan's last Bicycle Days Parade marching with SWB.

Emily playing her saxaphone

My friend Susan Metzger and her Mom driving a MTD product in the parade.
We weren't real sure if there was going to be a parade that day. There was quite a storm in the morning. But, it cleared up just in time.

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