Holy Therapists....

So you will never again hear me complain about not getting out of the house or lack of adult conversation.  Madilyn already has a physical therapist that comes to our house every other Friday to work with her, and a Visual Impairment Specialist that comes into our home and a home visitor from BHK that works with her weekly and Home Nursing comes weekly for weight checks which get called in to her GI doctor, and now it's time to add more therapists.

Madilyn's regular therapist and the VI were here early this afternoon and then we went to a new therapist to be evaluated.  She loved Madilyn and will be working with her once per week at her center and we are adding speech/feeding therapy once per week at the same center.  Once Madilyn makes some more progress than another therapist at the hospital will be added for Occupational therapy.  The speech/feeding therapist told me to "plan on getting messy"...haha....as long as it gets the Peanugga to not be so texture sensitive and taking things better orally we'll get messy...

We got lucky with the speech/feeding therapist because other than her evaluation next week will have the same day/time appointment every week.  It's not working out quite that easily with the new PT, hopefully in time it'll be a permanent appointment and not quite so much juggling.  I'm not looking forward to all the running but I am extremely excited about the additional therapy and can't wait to see the progress the Peanugga makes now and in the months/years to come.

Her glasses are already making a huge difference with the sitting time and the toy interaction.  It used to be a huge challenge to get her to sit at all and now she'll sit for several minutes at a time with some help.  Next step is to get her sitting on her own......they say for seconds 6 months from now....I say for minutes by then, we'll see who wins that one...

We also became Nana and Papa for speech therapy purposes rather than grandma/grandpa.  She does occasionally say grandpa but the natural speech progression suggests Nana and Papa first.....so Nana and Papa it is.

We have a very busy weekend coming up..I work both mornings and then Saturday afternoon I am taking her to visit with her dad again before he heads back to college.  We also have continual therapy to do, it's ok cause most of it's just fun and when it isn't, we sing..........quite horribly, but we sing.