Eeeek! I'm kind of sucking at keeping up with this! But that's not anything new...
Rex is doing great with his PT. I'm definitely seeing improvement! I guess our biggest update is that he's pretty much walking! I picked him up from Ms. Anna's on Friday, February 3 and she showed me that she taught him to hold on to his shirt to make him think he's holding onto something. Since he felt that "security" he did great with taking multiple steps on his own! By that Sunday, he was going a good 6 feet or so by himself! Corey and I work with him together every night. On that note, I have to mention how much I love doing that together. Rex gets so excited walking between Mommy and Daddy and I just LOVE watching Rex and Corey together. Rex sure does love his Daddy! They have always had such an amazing bond, from day one. Typically when I lay Rex down for bed, he gives Daddy a kiss goodnight, I take him to his crib where he kisses Mommy goodnight, then when he lays down, I turn on the light-up mobile, cover him up and he goes to bed. Over the last week though, when he goes to give Daddy kisses, he doesn't want to come back with me, he wants to stay with Daddy. Absolutely melted our hearts!! It was so so sweet! So now it's a nightly thing for Rex and Daddy to hang together just before he goes to bed. That is definitely their snuggle time and I love watching it!
Back to walking...he's getting better and better! Now, he holds on to his shirt with his right hand and holds his left arm up in the air when he walks. There's a picture of me when I was a baby doing the same thing! I'm going to have to dig up the picture and take one of Rex to put side by side. He's also doing better with pulling up on his own. He does it great on a toy basket we have in the living room. I put a bunch of my old textbooks in there to weigh it down so that he's able to pull up on it. He's also getting braver with walking from the furniture to someone without holding on to something. And he's finally getting better about sitting down on his own. Most of what he struggles with is not that he's not able to do it but that he's been afraid to do it. Now that he's got those tubes in his ears and his balance and spatial awareness is getting better, I can definitely see his confidence growing.
Our next big challenge is going from laying down to sitting up. His Physical Therapist showed us this last week how to get him to do it. He struggles with it but I can see the progress he's making with that. As long as we're making progress, that's all I care about! She also taught us how to work with him on standing up from sitting down. That will probably take a bit longer. One thing that I've discovered is hard about this is that we're kind of having to take steps back because Rex skipped the transitions between the larger milestones, i.e transitioning from laying to sitting down and transitioning from sitting to standing up. Those are things I take a lot of blame for because if he fussed, I typically knew he wanted to change positions so I would do it for him. So all of you new momma's out there: don't cave into those poor little whimpers! Make em work for it!! Lesson learned for this mommy.
Everything else is great :) Can't believe we only have two more six-weeks left of school! Let the count down to Spring Break begin!! Ashley and I will be the Cheer sponsors at school next year and I'm really excited about it! We'll be getting everything rolling with that in the next few weeks so I have a busy couple of weeks up ahead.
Corey and I are stronger than ever! We marked 3 years of being together last Monday. I can't believe it's only been 3 years...seems like a lot longer, probably because we've done so much in those 3 years. Another lesson learned over the last month is this: fighting is sometimes one of the best things for a relationship...as long as you really listen to each other. Shocker! :) I've come to believe that when you fight, it presents opportunity to get to know each other better and work out those "kinks". I pray that Corey and I continue to grow and learn together through every happy moment as well as every not-so-happy moment. I'm very lucky to have him!
Lent starts this week...I hope to get better about going to church every week to give Thanks to Him for all we are blessed with. Not sure yet what I plan to give up...gotta think about that one!
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