The Ladies Man!

Luisito visited his new School Chime Elementary. He met his Buddy Natalie. She is advancing to 1st grade. She was a great buddy for Luisito. When leaving cito said, "I had a lot of fun at my new school. I really like my girlfriend." Natalie watch out for Luisito he is a ladies man!

Oh the places we will go!

I do enjoy our fun weekends. I hope that our weekends bring joy to my little man. Do you think he has fun when we spend time together? Play dates with his friends, Birthday Parties, Zoo visits, movies will he remember our time spent together? I sure hope so…

Hello Friends and Family,

I just wanted to let you all know that Luisito is fine but he did injure himself while playing at school on Friday. He was riding on a trike that has a taxicab attached. He was the passenger and fell off on a sharp turn.

I picked him up from school and took him to the doctor. He broke his right tibia bone (see picture below). The break was located towards the lower region of this bone. The tibia, or shinbone is the larger and stronger of the two bones in the leg below the knee and connects the knee with the anklebones.

The Doctor explained that the tibia bone in a person without any disability gets very little blood supply. In Luisito due to his Arthrogryposis he gets even less blood supply, due to lack of muscular tissue surrounding his bones in his right leg. The blood supply is an important issue because blood brings oxygen, which then allows for healing. The Doctor said Luisito should not walk on his leg for at least 2 weeks. He believes that Luisito should be in the cast for 3 months.

So hear are my concerns and what I ask of you all. He needs prayer probably I will need some prayer too. I am concerned about the healing of the tibia bone and I am concerned about his joints being fixed for such a long time. As all of you know Luisito has done amazing things and shown us answers to our prayers. He can walk, jump, and tries his best to keep up with his friends at school while running.

Please pray for his healing of the broken bone, that his joints will not lose any of the range that he has gained, and that he will not have to have surgery to release any tendons or muscles once they have been in this fixed position for so long. For me pray for patience, and physical strength and stamina.

Thank you & God Bless,
Diane N. Meza

School, Cito and Life

Not a whole lot going on here in Sunny/Rainy California. I started back to school. I am taking the second semester of Chemistry. I started a part time job, working as a physical therapy aid in January.

Luisito is working on being a better listener with his teachers. He is the sweetest son a mother could have...His teacher did tell me today something funny. She was talking to the students about presidents day. That we celebrate it to give our thanks and gratitude to our past presidents. She then asked the class if they knew any names of past presidents. Luisito said we are celebrating for Jesus. She said he was very sincere with his answer. My sweet boy!

Future Writer for now I am his Assistant

Cito's Ghost Story: The wind was blowing and the trees were glowing. The sun was going down and the moon was going up. The sheet at the school was flowing. There was a lady and a balloon. There were lots of things that were floating in the air. All the instruments and cards were floating in the air. A ghost was playing the piano. The children of the school were at home sleeping.

My Boy is almost a Kindergardener...

OK so he is not quite there but he talks about getting stronger, bigger, smarter and becomes more independent everyday. He is quite sociable at school. He knows all his classmates names and class symbols. Plus he is friends with the older kids in Kindergarden. He talks about going to the Kindergarden class and how they have bigger boy things to do there. We had a little discipline action going on in our house Thursday night. Cito wanted to tell mommy "no". We of course that called for some time out and then an apology. After it was all said and done we made up with some kisses, Cito said, "mommy are you happy now?" I said yes I am. Then he asked me to give him a big smile. How could anyone turn done such a sweet invitation. Certainly not this mother. So his class pictures were distributed today and I wanted to share his beautiful smile with you all.

CSUN LAB/CHIME School- Harvest Festival

I do not think Cito was as thrilled as I was to take a picture. We had a great time with his school friends and teachers!