These are the moments we hang onto

~We will not become the struggle, but overcome it~

...is our new motto for our sweet Brayden!!

Our son looks perfectly normal to the world around him.

He does not fully understand how much he inspires me. I hope with every passing day that he finds his voice and can tell me what’s inside that amazing mind of his. I am terrified that one day his world is going to come crashing down when someone says to him "why can't you talk"...and I'm not going to be there to protect him. It pains me that he's getting older and soon will be able to understand our words don’t sound the same. Our sweet boy has things to say, amazing things I’m sure of it, but until he can get them out...we will be his voice!!

I often wonder if we will ever be able to share a conversation. He has so much to say and I’m missing it. He will only be four for a short while, but he is funny, I know this because he is always smiling and laughing. I laugh along with him, not because I understand him, but because he laughs with his entire soul and that alone is contagious.

You can usually find our sweet boy dancing and singing with a smile from ear to ear. He is the happiest toddler you will ever meet.  He makes every room bright with his lovable personality.  

Since last December when we got the diagnoses...he has many new words and this is an ACCOMPLISHMENT. We live for new words. These are the moments that we hang onto,That keep us going through this thing called Apraxia.

Although I have cried many tears, and wrote this with many tears...the struggle is not going to get any easier, but with every new day we try to overcome it!!

I am going to get better at posting my Motivational Monday's again...promise :)

xoxo

Alana