Wednesday, June 04, 2008

I am in awe

of the incredible human spirit especially Nathan's.  He is having a problem with shoes now.  His left foot has grown and is a size 1 while his right foot isn't.  To begin horse back riding the teacher said he needed something with a heel preferably a boot.  We searched and finally found him a pair of Ropers but he can't keep the right one on.  Boots need toes to stay on and so we have found a different pair of shoes kind of like work shoes.  On Monday before we bought the work shoes he was driven to wear the boots but they kept slipping off but he kept at it.

When we were searching for his  work shoes we were also looking for a bathing suit and as we looked at the bathing suits  they had shirts and a pair of flip flops attached.  I tried to warn him without being brutal that the flip flops wouldn't stay on.  He was just as adamant that he wanted them.  So, we bought him the suit and he came home and put the flip flops on.  He does it - he keeps that flip flop on some howand I bow to his incredible strength of character that he never gives up and some times I feel like crying.

1 comment:

Caleb T Ricks said...

The pictures of the kids with Daddy are great! The little pool is bigger than I thought it would be. Nathan is amazing - I think that Mandy has some of that in her too she just shows it in a very different way!