Little Updates

Kelsey has been doing several things lately and I keep forgetting to update!

She said "ello dadeeeee" the other day. She also said something similar to Grandma over the phone. She is "talking" more and more. We were calling Bandit at the dog park because he was not minding and she said "andit" (or something like that!)

In therapy last Thursday we tried a walker! She was very mad about her AFOs (foot orthotics) but looked so big and tall in it.

During OT therapy she placed her hand, opened her fingers, picked up and dropped a little red block!

We were playing with her new Fisher Price Piggy Bank I found at a thrift store and I held the coin out for her. She can now open her hand and take it from me! I then helped her put it above the slot on the pig and helped her direct it some toward the opening. She put it in, pushed in down, opened her hand and let go.

The other night we were out with Daddy and Grandma in her umbrella stroller. She stuck her legs straight out and then in, following the directions legs "out" and "in". We had done out and in with her arms before, but had never done it with her legs. She figured it out FAST.

She is banging her toys together on her tray in the highchair. She also grabbed her crinkle paper in one hand and a toy in the other last week sitting with a tray in front of her.

It amazes me how well she listens (when she wants to) and understands and makes her body respond so quickly now.

Mother's Day

For Mother's Day we went to the Deanna Rose Farmstead. It was lots of fun.

Raking, Sitting, Complaining

It seems that we have a "two" year old on our hands. (several months early)

Or maybe a teenager? (several years early)

Kelsey really has an opinion these days and sometimes it is all I can do to hope that what she wants to do coincides with what Mommy needs her to do.

At therapy on Thursday, Kelsey did side sitting on her own for the first time. She did it for the count of approx. 10 facing one way.

She did it, complaining the whole time.

We thought it would be good to do the other side too.

Kelsey did not.

She did that side for maybe the count of 5???

Then we did some sitting and standing. And all the grownups involved worked their tails off to keep Kelsey happy enough to cooperate some.

When Kristin, her OT, came and we all tried to get her to do the "out" "in/boom" while bench sitting that she had been doing in the corner chair for several weeks, Kelsey would have nothing of it.

I said "out" and she didn't try to move at all.

I then said "out when you are ready."

Guess what Kelsey did?

She moved her toys.

I asked her again.

She didn't try.

I said, "Out when you feel like it."

Guess what Kelsey did?

You got it.

After Debbie and Melissa left, Kelsey sat in her corner chair again with Kristin and I.

She did something new!

Kristin had some rice and pinto beans that she put on her tray and Kelsey raked them and picked up a pinto bean with her left hand!

And as always she enjoyed herself making a mess (of rice and beans in her seat, clothes and floor) for Kristin and I to clean up.


So she did two new things, side sitting independently and raking/picking up with her hand!




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