Our break

So, we're on our official break from primary's therapy and oh my gosh, I could get used to this. 

It is SO nice not having to wake up every morning and hurry to get off to appts. 

I actually have blank days on my calendar, like this is awesome! 

We still have early intervention come over every week, but that's easy when they come to our house. And we still do musikgarten every friday. 

We saw the ENT, she had a swallow study done this last tuesday. Everything looks great! 

(I love hearing that everything looks great! When we saw the opthamologist a month ago, and he said that, I totally almost started crying like a baby when I told him thanks, and that we didn't hear that very often. He was like oh...yeah, she's good, totally re-assuring me. 

That's 2 everything's okay from 2 different specialists in a row people! 

Really, I could get used to hearing that.) 

Anyway, it was cool to watch the swallow study. I put her in a little chair, the x-ray machine came out to the left of her. I stood in front of her with a lead vest and fed her the foods they had ready for her. The monitor was on my left side and a dr and nurse on my right, (blayke's left), I could look up at the monitor and see her chewing the food and watch it go down her throat. It was SO cool! I could see all her teeth, her earring, it was awesome. When she drank you could see all the liquid going down her throat. They put stuff in the food so it would show up on the x-ray. I'm glad it's over and that she's good, but seriously, it was really cool to watch! 

Anyway, she's having a sleep study done in dec, then botox a week later, then intense therapy. So we'll enjoy our break before dec comes and we start staying at the hospital!

Blayke and I have been taking advantage of our new found freedom by going to the park by our house or to liberty park downtown almost every morning, well, before it started getting cold.

She has turned into such a little helper. Ever since she started walking she has taken off with everything. Her Speech therapists always said once she started walking, her speech would come, since she wouldn't be concentrating so much on walking anymore, and it has. But even more than that, she understands almost everything! Spencer and I decided we basically went from having an infant, when she had her cast on, to a full blown toddler. We're blown away with how well she is doing.

 She loves to take care of her babies! 

Rock them and put them in the stroller, seriously how do kids know what to do?!

 Apparently, she's also turned into a little thug with one pant leg rolled up :)

 This girl is all girl. 

She finds her necklaces and puts them on by herself, it's pretty cute watching how she does it with her left hand. She likes getting her toenails and fingernails painted. 

In my defense, it is a written order from her dr to paint her nails. (wearing the nail polish brings awareness, so she can see and recognize her left fingers and toes) 

And yes, she really was on the phone in this picture...cracks me up.

She likes to throw things away, which is nice, except when its her crayons box or flashcards box, i find those in the garbage almost daily.

 She loves saying prayers :)

 The other night after her bath, we put pigtails in her hair! 

 She looks so big right?! 

We are having so much fun with her! Every age/ milestone gets better and better!

Oh and she finally started saying 'mama' this week! 

(not that i'm biased, but she's been saying 'daddy' forever okay)

i need a little love too you know.