Gaining Confidence!

In my last blog post I expressed concern about how this week would go, as our normal routine has sorta been thrown out the window. Would you believe it's been (from my perspective) Alex's best week in America?  As our progress tends to be of the "two steps forward, one step back" variety, I'm trying to not get my hopes up too high, but tonight I am absolutely giddy. Alex has this sudden surge of confidence, and it affects everything he does. That confidence makes me think that maybe he feels safe.  He feels wanted. He feels valued.  He feels loved. I sure hope so. I suspect he is loved way beyond his scope of comprehension, but hopefully his eyes are starting to open.

This newfound confidence doesn't change the fact that Alex has a lot of big mountains to climb, but those mountains are so much easier to tackle when you BELIEVE you can climb them. This week, Alex has run towards them full speed.