I hope you haven’t missed me too much. I’ve been very busy blossoming into a new little girl over the past few weeks and it’s taken up most of my time and energy.
Guys, did you know that you could reach for things? That you don’t just have to wait for one of the mom’s to get off the couch and bring the toy back to you, you can actually just move and get things yourself? I can’t believe I didn’t figure this out before, but I know now and there’s now stopping me! I reach for everything – things I shouldn’t even be allowed to have but the mom’s get so excited that they let me have whatever I want….even the cat!
I’ve also been working hard with my OT Kristen. I’ve decided that 2013 is going to be the year when I grow in leaps and bounds and abilities! Kristen came in to our first session of the year, took one look at me and started to laugh. She told Mama C that she had been worried before Christmas that I had started to plateau again and she was going to have to start working out some new techniques to get me moving forward again. But then she came in and saw all of my reaching and babbling and knew that we were going to be okay! So we’re back to working on great things like turning pages and stacking blocks and eating! The mom’s keep letting me try really great things – so far I like Sugar Donuts the best, but sweet potato and tomato sauce are pretty good too.
I’m also working hard to make my eyesight better. My brain injury caused something called a Cortical Visual Impairment (you can read more about it here, because it’s a a long thing to explain). If you read the description, you’ll see that a lot of the symptoms are things that you may see me doing. One of my big symptoms is strabismus, which causes my right eye to turn in towards my left eye. Clearly this is not good in the long run, so for the next 6 months, for 2 hours a day, I have to wear a patch over my left eye to remind my brain to pay attention to my right eye. It was a bit confusing at first because my brain injury also caused the left side of my body to be a bit weak so we kept thinking that it was my left eye that needed work, but we just have to keep remembering that the injury switches above my neck. Bodies are crazy crazy things.
Lastly, I just need to clear up a little rumour: I am NOT on the cover of Today’s Parent (although I don’t know why I’m not, I think that someone should really inform them that I would make an amazing cover model). Today’s Parent knows that parents love to see their children everywhere and so they allow anyone with a subscription to upload a photo and it will be used as the “cover” for the December issue. The mom’s ordered an extra copy for Gramma and Pa and somewhere they got confused and thought that it was real. I wasn’t trying to trick all of you – but it was pretty funny!
