Last Tuesday, we doubled up on appointments with Lucy's neurodevelopmental clinic and Connor's four month check up all in one day. Lucy and I trucked down to the hospital for her clinic session and it was more good news. It makes me smile when I think back to her interaction with the therapists. She was so playful and this time around there were no tears at all, a welcome change from last clinic. She played, talked and sat through the testing. All the therapists were impressed with her progress. At 30 months, Lucy is only behind in her gross motor skills. Her receptive and expressive language took at big jump up to 38 and 40 month respectively. It is quite obvious as she jabbers all the time. A couple of her favorite phrases:
'What do we have here' ... when looking at a book or toy
'It's hard for me' ... when trying to do a puzzle that is above her age
'Hi. How are you?' ... every time some says hi
'Where can it be?' ... when we are looking for something
'Hi buddy' ... her greeting to Connor
On a daily basis she cracks us up. We are coming out of a rough patch of extra crying and neediness as a result of Connor's presence. I don't think it fully hit her until I went back to work part time that she was going to have to share grandma and grandpa's attention. What I think helped her out of it was my cousin Mackenzie coming over to spend some quality one on one time with her. Every week she looks forward to it and they get a couple of hours to play and goof around! It is a great bond that is developing and I can't wait to see how it grows! We are also settled into a nice routine which has helped as well. Connor is on feeding schedule of four bottles a day. We get him up at 10 pm for his last bottle of the night and he sleeps through the night, for the most part. He weighed in at twelve pounds, eight ounces and is finally on the growth chart at his check up! He's making much quicker progress than Lucy and at the rate we are going will weigh more than her (22 lbs) in no time. We talked a little about feeding and what's next on the horizon....this is all new to me. We get to start rice cereal in a couple of months and add in fruit and veggie purees. Tummy time is going well and he is lifting his head up. I am excited to see all these milestones, but man, thinking about having two mobile kids is quite scary. He is also quite a talker...I can just imagine the conversations these two will have.
We will update in October after Lucy's cardiology appointment and Connor's six month check up.
A couple pictures to hold you over until then:
Lucy loves the water....pool, puddles, bath any and all things water
He is starting to develop quite the personality
