He Did It!!

Wade has been working hard with his therapists to learn how to go from a prone position to a sitting position.


Today when I went in to get him up from his nap, he was sitting up, just grinning away! That is the first time he has done it all on his own.


One more milestone down. Ninety-nine to go. We're having so much fun.

A Week in the Life of Wade

Monday: Wade goes to see his eye doctor.


Tuesday: Occupational Therapy in the morning. Upside of Downs support group meeting in the evening.


Wednesday: Physical Therapy


Thursday: Service Coordinator comes to visit


Friday: Speech Therapy

More photos

Wade with good friend, Ruth Ellen

With cousins Carolina Sue & Landon... Who taught my boys to smile?

Fun with water balloons

All she does is work, work, work...from sunup to sundown

Miss Susan gets the snooty face

The cheerful one

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Turning 4 is great because....

....you can decorate the cake yourself and then tell everyone how beautiful it is

....you can still blow out all the candles in one puff

....you don't have to make sense at all, and everyone still smiles benevolently

-- in other words when someone asks you what Curious George's name is, you can say with great confidence and authority, "Piglet!"

-- and when, before supper Mommy says, "Christopher, did somebody poke a finger into the birthday cake?" you can say fervently and charmingly, "I love you, Mommy, and I forgive you and I won't do it again!"

(Next time I need to apologize, I'm taking lessons from a 4-year old.)

-- The Lady

Wade's First Birthday

Isn’t Fonix Great?

“Mommy,” said Christopher happily, “eyeball starts with an I, and Emily starts with an M, and you starts with a U!”

I smiled back and decided that another day will be soon enough to disillusion him with the convoluted spellings of the English language.

--The Lady

Pride & Joy

He's got the "snooty" face down pat

Working those muscles

He puts a grin on my face 100 times a day!

Overbite

Is it possible to bite someone (for example, a brother) accidentally?

I don’t think so either, but this is his story.

“Well, Mom, we were jumping and when he fell on my head, my teeth just sort of clamped down.”


--The Lady

More Therapy

Wade has physical therapy once a week with Susan. He's always happy to see her, but then she pushes him over and he cries. It's all part of his therapy to try to get him to use and strengthen the right muscles. But Susan is so full of songs and energy that he is soon cheerful again.

In July, Wade got a new occupational therapist who also comes once a week. Jesse brings a bag full of toys for Wade to reach for and even helps Wade eat snacks to work on his pincer grasp. Fun! Fun! Wade loves to eat.

Wade's service coordinator Karen comes once a month to coordinate Wade's treatments and to make sure he is not missing any essential elements of therapy.



Wade also gets speech therapy from Liz once a month.

How To Stay Unfocused

Christopher has taught himself to cross his eyes “with no finger”! He happily tried to teach Randall how to do it. “You just put the black parts of your eyes in and the white parts out!”

Randall tries. . .

and tries. . .

and tries, but never gets it!

Christopher shows how it's done.