Faith showing off her new snaggle tooth look..
These are the words that I saw written on the YMCA board outside, today...
"Give and it will be given to you....Luke 6:38"
Pretty ironic, considering our experience inside at pool therapy, today.
When we came in, the lifeguards had roped off half of the therapy pool, crosswise, for swimming lessons, telling our therapist that she had to stay on the other side.The pool has a long step platform on one side that our PT uses for Faith to stand while in the pool. So they roped off that side so that the only place we could go was on the steps. Faith's PT was trying to work with her by standing her on an upside down plastic box but the kids in swim class were splashing and making a ruckus. Then there was a family with two kids who kept jumping in the pool, right next to Faith and they kept taking all the therapy toys.
The lifeguards are supposed to keep an eye on the kids and keep them out of the therapy area but they were all too busy trying to impress the girl lifeguard working in the pool. This has started to become a big problem for the therapists on pool days. The Y is starting to try to make our therapy center pay to use to pool (when the hospital originally owned the property that the Y was built on and donated it with a promise to be able to use it for therapy) It's kind of like they are trying to push us out. They recently started charging the parents (with special needs children) who get in the pool to help with their children! Very frustrating for everyone involved. A place supposedly founded on Christian beliefs, trying to get rid of a place that provided desperately needed therapy to special needs children! I finally got so upset at the lack of attention being paid, I got up and went over to the lifeguards (who were busy posing for each other, looking like Abercrombie models) and said "I guess I will come over here and keep an eye out since no one else will!" I stood there with my arms crossed and glared at everyone for a good ten minutes. All the while not a word was said to me nor did anyone do anything different! I was fuming...
"Give and it will be given to you...." Maybe they need to read their own sign!
She climbed the steps at the pool...
She has been able to do the stepping motion, up, for a while but someone had to hold her under the arms....
But this time she was able to hold on to the rail and even actually step..... D.O.W.N!
Believe me, it was not easy, she struggled getting that leg to stay straight while she had to bend the other one. A few slips, a few cheats when she just fell down them but she did it!
She went up and down four times and was UBER proud of herself!
She loved the IDEA of holding on to the railing...
She even made it out of the pool! We were all cheering for her! She worked so hard to hold on and get those legs to work together. 
