Time with Joshua.

After church last week Chris (middle kid, hearing) told me that the children had prayed to God. And that God had told Chris personally that he had to spend less time with Matt (oldest son, CI), and more time hanging out with Josh (youngest son, CI).

Matt told Chris, "God can't talk to you, you can't hear him. I don't care what kind of ears you have."

Of course, I told the boys that God CAN talk to us, in our hearts. That we didn't need ears to hear his voice in our lives. I was actually at a loss for words at this point. A little shocked at my 5 year old's revelation.

But Chris must have had a true change of heart, because I've heard him several times the past week say something like, "Matt, I can't play with you right now, I need to spend some time with Josh." Each time I hear that I am floored. Absolutely FLOORED! Boy, that word looks funny when you type it in caps...

Anyhoo... Josh is one of those kids that has an ear infection, but you don't know about it until it does something like rupture his ear drum. I'm not kidding, it happened a few days ago. But my, oh my, he is doing MUCH better! The pressure must have been bugging him something awful, because he's been Mr. Chipper ever since it popped.

I thought he just had a cold, like everyone else in this house. In the future I will just have to play the overly paranoid mommy role and bring him in every time I suspect something. Like I'm not overly worrisome NOW. Bottom line, he's doing better. Sigh...

I need to write down some of the notes from the boys' schools. They are both doing VERY well! Josh's vocalization and use of language keep improving, little by little. Matt keeps coming home with papers for me to sign, only one or two wrong on his math and spelling tests. He's done some writing on his own recently, at home. I need to ask his permission to post something here.

Thanks for all of the nice comments lately! Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. ;)