He is walking everywhere! The only time he crawls is if he falls down and needs to get to something to pull up or if he wants to get somewhere really fast. His personality is coming out and this little boy knows what he wants when he wants it and lets you know too! He is moving along with more foods and trying new ones out - he loves to eat. One of his favorite things to do is carry around his straw sippie as he walks then plop down and take a drink. Henry also loves playing with Robbie and trying to copy what he does : D
Now Robbie:
First off we finally have his Developmental Pediatrician appointment. Unfortunately the soonest new patient spot they had open is in May so it will be awhile before we even begin with that.
He has been sick for almost 2 weeks now. It is typical for kids with hypotonia to be sick longer and have a harder time fighting stuff off but he is doing his best. Prayers for complete recovery appreciated.
Last evening and today are the first we've been out since he got sick. We took a walk down to the park and there was a little girl about 4 or 5 there playing too. He ran over and since she was doing his favorite things (pouring sand on the slide) he joined in. After several attempts the little girl finally talked him into following her up to the high slide. They went up and slid down over and over and over! He did great! It took him twice as long as her to get up there and he crawled all the way up the first 3 or 4 times but he eventually started carefully walking up while holding the rail. We were so proud of him!!! He really over did it and got too worn but they had a lot of fun :) Such improvement!
We are still on the wait list for Speech but he has had a speech explosion like he's never done before. Usually he will gain a new word and say it over and over a lot but during Christmas, and then really accelerated on our trip in TX, that changed. He is now saying things he used to only sign, using more signs and in conjunction with words, attempting to combine a few like "down please", and has added a plethora of new words! Some of the things he is now saying (most don't actually sound quite like it or are the shell of the word but it still counts!) beads, wreath, hee haw, moo, hi, no, ho ho ho, teeth, tree, dino, see, go, up, please, Henry, me, carry, Dada!, cockadoodledoo, snack and many other things. Mostly he tries to repeat much of what we say, so it isn't a word he regularly uses but is trying to say. Now when he asks what something is and we answer he will often repeat it back! He is also carrying on fake conversations and earnestly trying to say stuff to us - very cute with lots of hand gestures! He also has finally reached a point where he will come to us and say something but we have no clue what it is. He persists in trying to get us to understand though because he is saying it with meaning! Often he will even find props to help us understand or take us to what he means.
All of this is very exciting to us!!!! Again thanks so very much for your prayers!
