Make A Wish!

My son is living with a girl who has a son with Arthrogryposis. It is a disease that effects the bone and body mass and it is something that babies are born with. I only know a little bit about it, but they think one cause or symptom is low fetal movement. Anyway, her son's name is Joseph. We all call him Joe Joe. Make A Wish foundation is granting him a wish. When they give a wish they also have a party for the person who is getting the wish granted. Tuesday night was Joe Joe's party. All the family came to celebrate and watch Joe Joe get his wish, which is to go to Disney World. They helped him decide on that wish because he loves Spiderman and Buzz Lightyear and a lot of the action characters. His first wish was to go to McDonalds, they did tell him that he could also go to McDonalds while he was in Florida!

They do give him a star. His has a blue center. Below is a picture of him holding his star.

Then they tie the star with a string and Joe Joe got to pull the string to raise his star to the heavens.

Here is the star reaching it's destination - with the other stars that have come before this one.

While the star was raising they played that "When you wish upon a star" song. It was very emotional and all the grandmothers (at least) cried. It was very touching. They leave next week to go to Disney World for a week. He will get to go to all the different attractions there. He gets breakfast with the characters twice and even with some of the Marvel characters at least one morning! It is going to be so much fun!