Hard Working Little Boy

While John is still recovering from his virus, he is doing very well and during physical therapy today worked very, very hard. Normally he needs a little break half way through the hour of therapy - mostly an attitude rest. But today he worked for the entire hour. He scooted around the floor pretty well and then in his gait trainer he even stood up several times on his own and was taking individual steps on the carpet instead of just both feet together. Shawna, John's PT and I were both amazed at how tall he stood in the trainer. When we first got it we were talking about how even at the lowest adjustment he was just barely tall enough to use it and today we were talking about how we will need to start raising things up pretty soon.

John's still not eating but his supper time adventures are getting ... well more adventurous. Tonight he wanted the last of the chip bag, so I rolled the top down on it and gave it too him. After all we have the eager eater hanging out on the floor waiting for anything that might get close to her. At first he was happy just playing in the chips, then he flung a few to the dog and then he decided that it was time to fork them. After he squealed and 'talked' and made it clear that he was wanting my fork he then spent the next 5 minutes or so mixing, stabbing and crunching up the chips with the fork. It was way too funny. He finally ended up eating a chip or rather licking the salt off of it, but at least he was demonstrating that he is perfectly capable of getting a hold of a chip and getting it to his mouth - well at least when no one is looking right at him or asking him to do so.