Sorry, that we have been away for awhile...life has been crazy! I started a new job and it has been hard getting adjusted to the new schedule. Will is doing really well though and moving along with all of his therapies. He is doing lots of fun new things.
He is standing himself up on the stairs and couch and on his little play table. He has mastered getting up the first step but has not yet figured out how to get down:( He has had lots of bumps on the head the last couple weeks as a result! He is bear-crawling a lot more and has started standing upright in the middle of the floor, then hovering there for several seconds, then plopping down on his bottom. He definately likes the feeling of standing up!
We are still struggling with cup and straw drinking but are trying many new methods. We started working with a feeding OT in the middle of February and she has been helping us think of new ways to get Will to like his cup better:) So far we have not really done much more than sipping but at least we have some new things to try. Will has been enjoying some face massage, working with a chew tube covered in Nutella to strengthen his jaw muscles, playing with his cups in the the bath so that we can learn to 'love' them more and drinking both thinned down applesauce and thickened chocolate milk. We are continuing our bi-weekly visits to the PT and she is working on standing while playing, cruising and crawling up stairs. We have been seeing a lot of our new home therapists too. We have at least one session a week with either the PT, OT, ST or EI teacher. They are all great and have been giving me good ideas for new activities to do around the house. Working with items at our house helps us to make therapy a part of our daily routine rather than having to set aside time to work on specific things. The speech therapist has given me lots of silly activities to do with Will to encourage new sounds. He still has not said momma...but he has started saying 'up'. We seem to be stuck on 'baba', 'dada', 'ahh' and the occasional 'p'! We work on signs often as well, but the only sign we occasionally see is 'more'. 'Up' and 'more' gets Will most of what he wants at this stage:)
Will also recently attended his first OSU/IU basketball game! The Mattas invited us to a game and we had a lot of fun. Will was a little frightened by all the flashing lights and loud noise at first, but got used to it by the second half. He was dancing and clapping by the end! Although he wore his OSU sweatshirt, he was cheering for both teams!
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