8-25-08

Lily continues to steadily make progress. Last friday we went to a playgroup for Early Steps (the program she is in that supplies her speech therapy and hopefully more therapies soon to come, but it's a waiting game). It was at a gymnastics place and she adored it. So much for her to run around and climb on, she was in her glory. She FINALLY learned to jump on the trampoline and land on her feet! For the longest time she has been jumping up and landing on her butt, so this was exciting for me :). She has been doing great in the car and is singing so much more now. Daddy says she was great this weekend (while I was at work unfortunately). He would ask her to bring him specific books and she would look around, find it, and bring it to him! For example he asked her to bring him the Curious George book with the Penguin (she has a few Curious George books) and also the Bzzz Bzzz Book (has a bee that Bzzz's on every page) and she was able to identify those! She can now show you where her eyes, nose, and mouth are.

Today we went to playgroup and she did well there, waving bye bye and blowing kisses to everyone. Now when we arrive at someone's home and we are waiting at the door, she routinely starts to wave hello in anticipation. She also knows that she has to knock on the door (and likes to until the door opens, she doesn't like waiting, lol).

When we got home she surprised me with some more new skills. She was able to show me which of her magnets were Mickey, Goofy, Pluto, Donald Duck, and Daisy Duck! She's still having a little trouble with Minnie but how she learned 5 of the characters already is very exciting! She still has some trouble with responding to her name, but I think it's probably to the "normal" toddler point now because if I ask her if she wants a cookie she responds right away, lol.

More and more she is showing me that she is overcoming her difficulties. I still believe that the Chelation we have her on has been the biggest miracle, allowing her to be able to learn all of the things that I have been trying to teach her. For months I worked with her, but it was as though she was trying to see in the dark. Now the light is on and she can see, and it gets clearer every day!!