Meeting Dan & Marian

My husband had to take a trip over to Seattle for work, and Jamison and I decided to go to get a little mini-vacation and meet up with Marian & Dan over there, another PTLS family.  I have to say that meeting Dan was such a thrill for me. I never expected him to be the way he was... I don't know what I expected, but I was happily surprised when I got there. He was so funny, that is something that I really didn't expect. His humor was hilarious, and he was so sweet!

It really gave me a little jump start back up knowing that this potentially could be Jamison in a few short years... I never expect what life can be like in 5, 10 or 15 years.. I just hope, and meeting them gave me so much more hope than I could dream of! It was the best experience and I can't wait to see them again!

Lights, Camera... SMILES!

Jamison has always been such a ham for the camera, and like always... we get some really beautiful pictures.  These pictures were taken by Brady Campbell Photography at his school a month or so ago. I hope you enjoy them, and if you would like copies of any please let me know!  Love, Shelly.

A Special Note to Gerald...

I am so happy that you found my blog. It's encouraging to hear about your son and want you to know that most parents who contact me have children between 3 weeks old and 5 years old. Christian was the oldest contact I had until I heard from you and I would love it if you could contact me by email so I could talk to you more about your journey with Brad. Please, please contact me on my email shellylynnjones@gmail.com or call 208-640-3542! I am excited to hear from you!! (and have SO many questions!)

-Shelly.

Jamison sharing his journey...

I feel very fortunate to be able to share Jamison's journey with others, to encourage them and help them understand what might be in their future.  Recently, I have been thinking about getting Jamison's therapists to write a little something to share their experience with Jamison over the years.

Also, I wanted to feature other children that I have met through my blog if their parents would like to so that others may hear their story and also have a way to contact them as well.  I feel blessed to know all of you that contact me on my blog, believe me... it helps me just as much as it does you!  Now I think it's time for me to expand this for others to be involved so we have a little community of support. I'm just one of many and I want us to all come together for each other!

If you are interested in sending me a story/picture/contact info to post to my blog please email me @ shellylynnjones@gmail.com and we can talk about what you might want to share and post!!

As always, I look forward to hearing from each and everyone of you and can't wait to see what all of our futures hold!

With Love,
J-Man's Momma ;)

One, Two, Three... JUMP!

Jamison has finally mastered the art of JUMPING! It has been a long road, and with the help of our backyard trampoline and his amazing Physical Therapist he has FINALLY learned to jump! I even find him jumping now randomly throughout the day ;) I love it. He is getting better and better each day and I have an awesome video of him jumping. Unfortunately, I was unable to upload the video on here, but if you would like a copy please email me shellylynnjones@gmail.com and I will send it to you!

Easter Monsters!

Jamison had so much fun coloring Easter eggs for the first time this year! He went crazy with the dye and it went everywhere, but there was no stopping his fun! We made little Easter monsters and Jamison couldn't stop laughing at them!

The Results Are In...

Jamison has normal hearing for upto speech range. They still don't have the results back from the neurologist on the "high frequency" noises but seem to think that will be normal as well. Even if there was some loss within the high frequency range it would not be something that would require a hearing aid. YAY! Finally, a test Jamison totally passed with flying colors!! Now if we could just get this guy talking...