Ray of Hope Update

We have had one boy, David, coming to our Ray of Hope club regularly for physical therapy.  It has been fun to see him gain strength as he repeats the same exercises each day.  He loves to laugh and joke with us. He is extremely smart.  The other day we had a timer set for his exercises.  He knows that when it goes off he is done with that exercise.  We tried to get him to do two additional minutes and he kept looking at the timer as if to indicate "the timer went off, why should I do two more minutes of exercise."  He won that debate and we are now more careful how long we set the timer for to make sure there are no concerns. His parents have shared that he sleeps much better on the days he comes to our club.  Our favorite exercise is the one in which he rolls down a wedge and then has to roll a couple more times to get a toy.  I have started rolling from the other side of the room to try to beat him to the toy.  He finds this really fun (as do I).  He laughs and works really hard to roll to the toy before I can get there.  We started teaching him his alphabet today and are hoping he can join Nurdaulet in his reading lessons as time moves forward.