New Things!

John has been doing some new things lately, well truthfully he does a few new things every day but there are a few notable ones that are way cool, even if they aren't always overly appreciated. John is now using NO consistently and appropriately! While this is not always a parents favorite thing to hear it is much nicer than John just flinging the offending object on the floor and looking at us like we have no clue. As you can see in the pic he has become even more in love with his books than ever before and he has always been a book-loving boy! His favorites lately are Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See and Paddington. He is starting to point to the pictures and tells me things about the books that I don't quite understand yet. His other new trick is to put the blocks in his sorter box, of course he has yet to show this new trick to anyone else, so we're just waiting, eventually he'll do it for one of his therapists and we'll all be cheering!

Today he got to do something new too! Amy, John's speech therapist, asked that we bring John to school in his gait trainer. He loved it! Of course he loves being in the gait trainer at every opportunity anyway but this was something really great. He enjoyed getting to play in it and was even a good boy and didn't lay screaming on the floor when he had to come out of it. That is not always the case.

Shawna, John's previous physical therapist, came by to visit and John was really glad to see her and so were we. It was nice to get to visit for a bit and we look forward to the next time that she can come through our way. John is going to have a couple weeks off of physical therapy while his new therapist, Mr. Paul, is visiting his homeland of China. We are of course keeping him in our prayers that his travels are safe and fun and look forward to him returning home. Once he gets back John will start on his new adventure of pool physical therapy, we can't wait!

John's move towards bolus feeding is going very slowly but it is going and that is a big positive step. He is also doing interesting things like coming home from church in a dry diaper and then filling it just after we get home. He's done that enough times in a row now that we've decided we're going to go and get him a little potty and let him just try and see if he is ready to move that direction. Of course I'm sure he'll love to sit on it especially if he has a book handy!