In 2019, Logan, 2 and his dad, Justin Moore, started their visit to Home Depot in Cedartown, Georgia. Logan captured service desk manager Cathy Ennsley’s heart. When finding out why Justin wanted the parts on his shopping list, she knew she had to help.
While the father and son went off for one hour, thinking the staff was getting the parts out of storage for them, the workers at Home Depot were busy building Logan his own walker!
Logan was born with hypotonia or “floppy infant syndrome.” that causes low muscle tone and reduced strength. For older children, the disease’s treatable with physical therapy but for infants and toddlers, parents are pretty much on their own to help their babies become strong enough to move around.
Logan’s parents noticed something was wrong when Logan was just a few weeks old. The boy wasn’t as active as other babies his age, and couldn’t lift his head. When Logan was ready to roll over, he couldn’t do that either. Sitting up was also impossible at first. When Logan was ready to walk, he got leg braces. They weren’t enough, however; what the little really needed was a walker. But the insurance company wouldn’t pay for it, and Justin and Christian couldn’t afford it on their own.
Stuck for an answer, Justin went online to try to find out how to build a toddler-sized walker. It took some digging, but the dad found what he needed. Then, armed with plans and a list of the parts he’d need, he and Logan went to Home Depot.
Fox 46 shared that their first stop at Home Depot was the service desk, where Justin asked Ennsley if the store had everything he needed. Curiosity got the best of her, and she asked what he was going to do with the items on his list. Meanwhile, the woman was falling in love with Logan and his radiant smile. When Justin said he wanted to build a walker for his son — even though he could barely afford it — she knew exactly what she wanted to do.
Ennsley told Fox 46: “I do have a special needs daughter, everybody involved with it has a medically needy child,”
Ennsley said she needed to ask the store manager if they had the parts and asked Justin and Logan to wait at the desk. She went off, plans in hand, to talk with the manager. However, she didn’t want to ask about the parts. She knew the store had them and then she had something else in mind. When returning a few minutes later, she told Justin some of the parts might be in storage. If he and Logan came back in an hour, everything would be ready for them.
The store’s manager, Joe Ritchie said: “I figured out we had everything thing we needed I told them to go get ice cream and come back in an hour and we’d have it built for them and they were kind of blown away,”.
While Justin and his baby were down the street eating ice cream, the store manager and some employees were hard at work building the best surprise ever.
When the dad and Logan got back to the store, they found a fully-constructed bright orange, toddler-sized walker. It even had Logan’s name on it.
Christian told Fox 46: “We were just shocked that they would do that for us…because you don’t see a lot of that generosity these days,”
Justin added: “Logan really needed it. He’s been trying to walk a lot more with that thing and we’re really thankful,”
As the baby boy took his first steps, he was smiling from ear to ear.
“Everyone was crying to see Logan walk around with the biggest smile on his face.”
Anderson then thanked everyone that helped “for being a blessing to this family and to this little guy.”, Jeff Anderson, one of the men who helped make the walker, told CNN.
But Justin and Logan will always remember Cathy and her coworkers, who turned an ordinary shopping trip into an amazing, wonderful day.
In addition, Logan’s story has also touched viewers on YouTube from around the world.
Source:apost.com, CNN, Fox 46
