Beautiful Lake Onatrio

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

First use of the walker

By the way these blog posted are not edited and I'm usually writing them late at night, so don't grade the grammar or spelling please. 

Yesterday, we started our second week and the fear has been with Brody that he would peak and slowly retreat to his usual state.  So, we worked a little over the weekend, and tried to prevent the glad it's over now let's get back to the way we were.  Anyways, I think he was a little upset with me, because we started doing our standing portion of the class.  This is typically the most dificult and draining on the kids.  There are four kids so two stand while the other two sit with arm splints hanging on to a ladder.  The splints helps them with there grip.  When they finish their standing each child gets an individual task to perform and today the teacher tried the walker with him.  Usually, we use a chair and I hold his fore arms while she works his legs, but today she did the whole thing.  It didn't go too well after about 5 minutes he let go with his hands and plowed face first into the walker.  She was able to get him up but he was a mess, crying, moaning, snot everywhere.  Of course, they don't stop and let you cuddle with him.  She got out the mitts, tied his hands to the walker and away they went.  He made it to the end but wasn't very happy,    It was a pretty rough day for him and me.  I had to stand behind him during this part, because he kept looking at me like I was going to save him...
Anyways, the teacher thought it would be better if we could figure out how to get him to move with just one person rather than two so practicing would be easier.  The teacher did give me some feeding tips and tomorrow I think she's going to help me with an open cup.  She said she wasn't sure how much help we would need and I told her that I needed all the help and advice she could give, the sooner the better.  I think she really likes Brody, she'll ask him how he's doing then give him a big kiss, and he'll just smile!

2 comments:

  1. That's sweet...the kiss part, not the torture with the walker part. I'm glad he's getting stronger - keep up the fantastic work Daddy-o.

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  2. Happy to hear he is doing well. What a strong little boy. I am sure it isn't easy watching him struggle and you can't help hang in there you are doing great!

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