First steps, can't be?!

3, that's how old Valencia is, just three years old. Already she has endured so much, casting, bracing, surgery, testing, you name it she had it. She had a medical record file equivalent to an eighty year old. She had a file full of all the things that make the next milestone possible. Valencia would soon be walking!

Up until now, Valencia hasn't walked yet. She didn't really have an opportunity to learn how what with casts, braces, and surgeries her legs were never really "free" long enough to learn. Developmentally we knew she would be behind, but considering everything she had to go through we were never really sure if she'd be able to walk or how well. Imagine our surprise to see her just kind of take off one day. She remembered the feeling from the dinosaur walker and she did it her way, Valencia's way. 

Now, it's awesome to be able to tell you that we have had both then and now an amazing village of supporters through all of her trials and successes. This was no different. I remember walking into work all excited to share that Valencia took her first official steps on her own, everyone immediately cheering, except for one. This one particular mom had a baby around the same age as Valencia and upon hearing of my news made the statement, "She just started walking at 3?, my daughter was 1 when she started walking." Y'all I'm not ashamed to say that I saved her life that day. Tehe.🤣 Just no sooner she said those words my village of supporters were ready to jump and take her down! They were shocked that anyone would be so oblivious to the fact of exactly how monumental this moment truly was. I stepped in the way of them and said wait, maybe she doesn't know all there is to know about Valencia and her trials, let's give her the benefit of the doubt. We've worked together all year, and anyone who knows me knows that I share pretty much everything about V, but hey, some people like to live in their own bubble and forget there is a whole world with other people in it. 

Yep, it was a double victory kind of week, Valencia started walking and I was out there saving lives. in the words of Ice Cube, "today was a good day." 😎