Last night, I trimmed the few stray hairs around Jackson's ears that the barber missed last weekend. He was less than thrilled with this, but tolerated it. He has come a very long way with regard to getting his hair cut...this morning, he decided to cut his own hair. He's done this just one other time (while at the beauty shop) and the last time it was cute. [I actually silently celebrated it because it was such a normal thing to do at the time...] Well, this time, it's not so cute and I'm going to have to take him in and have it buzzed off so that it doesn't look like he's missing a chunk of hair...at least it's just hair. It'll grow back...
Today was children's Sunday at church. Cal sang with his other kids from Nursery school (very cute!) and our pastor showed the tribute video of Jackson. It was really moving and everyone responded so positively to us...Jackson just asked to watch it again (surprise, surprise). After the service someone commented to Jackson, "You're a movie star" he proceeded to hug himself and say, "I'm a movie star" and then later, "Jackson's a movie star"--cute. Watching the video I'm full of a mix of emotions, sadness, pride, fear, anger: a whole range of emotions. Dan talked to a guy after church relatively new to our community who has a lot of experience working with kids with autism, so we're hoping to keep in touch with him...Again, we were reminded of the incredible community we're fortunate to be a part of.
For years I've said that Jackson is going to be whatever God intended him to be; today I felt a sureness about that and knew it within my soul.....
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