In the Blink of an Eye: Playing Catch Up

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Playing Catch Up

I feel like I need to catch everyone up on what SK has been up to lately besides receiving a great blessing from the most awesome fundraiser ever!!

Therapy continues to go well, it's a painfully slow go but at least it's a go. Sophie Kate is starting to put weight on her feet on dry land instead of just always in the pool at "wet tots." Although as a side note, "wet tots" has been very beneficial to SK since her surgery. There is just so much she can do in the pool that requires 8 arms to do outside of the pool. She is really moving her legs well by herself when we position her floating on her stomach with her legs free to move. Also, she continues to love standing in the pool while rockin' her itsy bitsy ankle weights.

Sophie's therapists have been commenting how overall, she seems to be more relaxed and her muscles don't seem to be as stiff as they usually are, I have definitely noticed that too. We aren't giving her any more of her medication than we had been but we have changed the times of day that we are giving it and I do think that it has made a difference.

My girl still loves to be outside and with very few exceptions to that rule taking her outside will cure her of almost any crabbiness. She is also engaging in more meaningful eye contact and certainly knows when someone says her name or speaks to her. So if you see Miss Sassy out and about please don't hesitate to speak directly to her, she really does know.

Inchstone Alert: We got our first laugh/giggle out of Sophie Kate on Tuesday (April 21) of this week! It was very soft and very faint but it was a little laugh nonetheless. It happened while her physical therapist was here at the house just being silly with her and wiggling her. We have discovered that SK LOVES to move. She gets a huge grin on her face when we wiggle her arms and legs and just be silly with her, but this past Tuesday was the first time that that HUGE grin broke out into a little laugh. Oh, how it makes me long to hear the sound of that sweet angel's voice.

Sophie Kate is also sitting better these days, she is able to sit "criss cross applesauce" with me holding her hands. This is where she was presurgery so hopefully now that we have caught back up, we can start making some postitive progress toward sitting completely unassisted. If you don't know, the goal is to have our girl sitting unassisted by 2 years old, it's a biggie and we are not giving up on it.

Wanted to catch y'all up with some random pictures....

The boys of summer...

Now that's a game face.

I cannot tell y'all how much I love this picture! The big thing this year is eating sunflower seeds and then spitting out the shells, that's what Cooper has in his mouth. It must be a boy thing, SK, they just like to spit.