Today is the first of May, and Grace is keenly aware that this is her birthday month. Hard for us to believe that she'll be five in a few weeks.
Tomorrow is Grace's first night of Challenger baseball. They have a really good little league program here in Sioux City for kids with disabilities, so tomorrow Grace makes her first foray into competitive sports. I'm guessing she will not be a gamer. She'll be more concerned about how she looks and what her team name is. In fact she wasn't happy the other day when she found out her team name was American Postal, and not the Ballerinas as she'd been hoping for. We're excited for it, though, because it'll be a new and different experience for her.
Grace will have a pretty busy summer. We're also looking at having her take a ballet class. She really wants to, and we've had some contact with some of the studios here in the city about working with someone in a wheelchair. So far we've gotten a good response. Grace told me the other day that she wants to make sure she takes an "arm ballet" class so she can participate, so she's obviously been thinking about how she can participate. She's come to grips with her limitations and is remarkably positive about them.
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