As Promised, Update on Darsie

So Darsie is doing well. We are currently doing one hour of hydrotherapy, two sessions of developmental preschool through our local EI center, and one hour of PT weekly. We kind of have a speech session mixed in with one of our weekly sessions of preschool.

Besides growing bigger everyday it seems, Darsie is getting more and more physical. She is running and walking over all surfaces, can climb stairs going up (but not down), walk on uneven surfaces, and is gaining new words everyday. I think I need to start a list of words for when her therapists ask me how her speech is coming. She doesn't talk a lot but does when necessary (like the teacher isn't looking at her during snack and she wants more COOKIES!). She is an incredible singer and is starting to dance. She loves to kiss herself in the armoir mirror and is absolutely in love with any babies (bebe!) that we see.

Recently we got Darsie a new hand splint. We had been using homemade, or rather OT made, neoprene splints but she has such an thumb abduction that we needed to get her something she could not pull through. We went through a local company named Benik to get her a new neoprene splint. The difference is that this one has a piece of plastic in the web space so she can't pull her thumb in. It is moldeable when heated. We also ordered her one that has a bit more velcro on it because she could weasle her way out of the other ones. This one has one big flap that velcros and then three small flaps that velcro over that one. So far we have had great success with it!

I've had this post written for two days and I hit save as draft instead of publish. UGH, pregnancy brain!

Fun Times in Washington

As most people know, Western Washington has been hit pretty hard (for us) with a snow storm in the last week or so. We have had lots of fun with the snow (though Jeff has had to work from home a couple of days and it is hard to leave him alone).

Darsie really seemed to like the snow:





Recently, Jeff and I were able to take a quick weekend trip to a cute town called Leavenworth. We stayed in a GREAT B&B (http://www.runoftheriver.com) that we would highly recommend to everyone. It was a decent price and the breakfasts, the ambiance, and the hosts were TREMENDOUS! Anyways, right before we left, Darsie came down with a cold and pink eye (which of course we had to document:

Believe me, she looked a lot worse than she felt, but this picture reminds me so much of those horrible celebrity police photos that I just had to share.

On the PT/OT front, Darsie's OT's schedule has filled up so we are loosing one day a week of OT. We had the choice of keeping either the land or the hydro and I decided to keep the hydro. She gets land therapy with her PT and at her therapy preschool, so I really thought keeping the water was the right thing to do. Today at Mr. Larry's, Darsie's OT met us there and she and Larry were able to talk a bit about the plan of action and what we could do in the water to continue with the great progress we've been seeing.

On potty training fronts, Darsie has peed in the potty twice so far. Now that she is peeing in the potty, she is back to pooping in her diapers, so who knows what is going on. I'm not pushing her, just complimenting her when she uses her potty.