We are still seizure free!!!!!! 6 months now!
Melissa continues to improve mostly emotional. She is a 2 1/2 year old emotionally. She is trying to sign some words but it is just like when a one year old is trying to learn how to talk we don’t always realize she is trying to communicate with us. We are working on signs for more, all done, hungry, thirsty, and bath.
She continues to gain strength. I put her on her tummy now for tummy time and although she doesn’t choose to use her hands most of the time she is tolerating it more. She has a corner chair that she can sit in for up to an hour reaching out and touching and even grabbing toys in front of her.
She also has a baby hammock called a Nature’s Nest that she enjoys being in. I am so grateful to my friend who has loaned it to us. She is on the verge of being too big for it and we are trying to figure out how we can rig something similar up for her as she grows. When she is super crabby if we put her in the hammock and turn on a video with music and nature picture she usually quiets down.
She has increased her food intake. Most people can not believe the quantity of what she can eat-including myself. She is growing and she is out growing her 18 month clothes very quickly.
We start pool therapy 2x a month this week. We have had a couple of trial sessions and she just loves being in the water in the pool. Her P/T put a horseshoe collar life jacket on her and her arms and legs were free to move. She was able to move herself back and forth across the pool. When doing standing in the shallow end(which comes to her neck) she was trying to take steps!
We pick up her Tumble Forms stander on Fri. I can’t wait to see how she does in the stander.

I feel we are on the forward path still instead of the back and forth that we dealt with for so long. Keepin-on keepin-on