A story of a child who touched my heart

A couple years ago in an orphanage in  Maldovia a young boy only 2 years was suffering with a cleft pallet and rickets from lack of calcium in his bones.  Without the necessary cleft pallet surgery, he would only spent his life being fed through a straw and considering the poverty that surrounded him he most likely would have not survived.  In 2009, his life would take a drastic change and a wonderful woman from Massachusetts would adopt him and bring him to the United States where he would receive the cleft pallet surgeries he would need and have a chance at good health, a loving family and education.  Today I am fortunate enough to have him in my childcare and his mother, a true inspiration to us all, as a friend.  We go for walks in the neighborhood and everything he sees he yells, "look, dog, cat, house, truck, tree!" Things that we see everyday, but to him it is all new.  When I think of him, it just reminds me how fortunate we are, the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and the education we are offered. And most of all the good health of our children, something that it easily taken for granted.