Progress at home

Since our last day at intensive, we have tried to make a schedule at home to keep up Jace's strength and skills. I am happy to say that he just tolerated 45 minutes in his stander this morning, while watching Handy Manny and playing with his zhu zhu pet, Nugget.

In the hart walker, he has not progressed as much as I would like for him. He prefers it when I sing to him and he stomps his feet when we do "if you're happy and you know it". I am going to try and take him in the garage soon and see if that surface is more helpful. We are hoping to hear soon if insurance will approve buying his very own hart walker. Hopefully, we met the criteria, which was consecutive steps without assistance.

As far as sit ups go, we do pretty good on most of them, except on the peanut ball. The difficulty there is getting his arms to stay straight, but equipment to help this is supposed to be on the way!

A big thanks to his Grammy Jan for making us weighted bags, just like at therapy, for him to practice "be still" for 30 minutes. They are wonderful, and even our home therapist has commented on how great they are. We are very lucky to have her do so many wonderful things.

Jace continues to thrive, even impressing us with his reaction to eating solids. He does best in his high chair with dimmed lights and a calm household. His favorites seem to be, anything mango flavored (esp. peach mango yogurt); pears; and sweet potatoes. Everything he is fed is thickened to help him to better manage his foods. I vary it between thick it and wheat and honey cereal. He seems to prefer the foods I warm up. Next on our list, is trying a thick soup.