The Lord's Blessings

This weekend we had the greatest scare of our lives. I even debated whether to post it or not--because I don't want to take lightly what happened AT ALL, but I decided it would be a good way to express gratitude to the Lord publicly as well as to bear testimony of the watchful care of the Lord.

As you can see in the picture, Jackson's favorite spot to play is by our window. Well last night we had some people coming over so I wanted to cool down the house. I went to open our patio door but decided I didn't want bugs in the house, so without thinking twice I opened the window. The next thing we new, I was making dinner and we heard Jackson crying from a distance, like he shut himself in a room or something. The cry wasn't abnormal, but we soon realized that he had fallen out of the window! We are on the 2nd story (here is a picture of the complex to help you get the idea) so the fall was about 10 feet. I have never been so scared! I ran out of the apartment screaming hysterically (loud enough that our friends who live on the other side of the building came over to check on us) and Justin jumped out of the window. We picked him up and brought him back in and calmed him down with his Binky and blanket. We checked his body for anything abnormal and for tender spots. We checked his head and his eyes to see in they were dilated normal... he seemed to be completely fine, no scratches and only a tiny bruise on the left side of his abdomen. From what we could tell, he hadn't hit his head. The way Justin found him was face down on his stomach, and he landed in some tall grass from the landscape. He calmed down right away and got down, started to walk around, play, laugh, and clap his hands. We were SO scared, but he was OK and that we were incredibly grateful for! We immediately got on our knees to give a prayer of thanks because it could have been tragic. We woke him up in the night to see how he was doing, and everything seemed fine. The next day he was his normal BUSY self. I took him into the E.R. to just make sure, and they said everything looked great on him. Even the doctor said, "I'm not going to use the word lucky, I'm going to use the word blessed. There must have been angels there to catch him."

I'm still shaken up about the whole thing, and mad at myself for even opening that STUPID window, but incredibly grateful to my Lord for watching out for us... I don't know what I would have done if it would have been worse.

(and btw for anyone who lives in these buildings, watch out for those windows... they are built really stupid the way they go clear to the ground).
At church he fell down and hit his face on the pew and got a pretty good bruise below his right eye. (you can't really see it in this picture but it's worse in person) After falling out of a 2 story window he got a worse mark falling down at church! WOW, I can't say it enough how blessed we truly are!!