Reflections on casts

I (Katie) work in the Children's Ministry department at Bethany. On Tuesday am, I get to set up the program for the MOPS program at Bethany. I float between classrooms, greeting moms, and children. This morning starting like any other, checking on classrooms, bringing materials to teachers, and greeting moms. I brought a volunteer to a classroom of toddlers and stayed for a few mins. until the regular teacher arrived. One mom of twin boys entered the classrooms to drop off. She set down one of her sons. After a few a minute or two she told us that her other son had broken his leg sitting on her sister's lap going down the slide (people don't do that) anyway. I hadn't noticed his full length cast under his long pants. She said he was adjusting fine to the cast and that it was going to be on for another 3 weeks. She was relaxed about the whole thing.
Then she passed her son to me. He was sad to see mom go and was crying for a few mins. It was so strange how "normal" it felt to hold a toddler with a cast on...like, ya, that is what I remember. I connected to his positioning and it just "felt" so normal to hold him. It was the weirdest positive, and also negative nostalgic experience. It made me want to hold more babies with casts but also reminded me of a very hard time in Luca's (and ours) lives. And the horrible casting experience.
Luca was in casts almost exclusively up until he was 2 years old. I am grateful that he doesn't need to be in casts anymore. I am so thankful that he does not have to have surgery this year! What a gift to see both of my kids running around day after day! What a incredible gift!

Luca living life with casts

Above are two pictures of his feet early on! Thank you Dr. Mosca, all those casts and surgeries!

 Nothing is slowing this kid down!