Thursday, November 17, 2005

Baby update

It doesn't seem possible but Baby will be a year old in a few weeks. This year has gone by so fast.

He has one more physical therapy appointment for his CMT. There has been a great improvement. When we started PT he had about 50% range of motion on one side of his neck and now it is almost 100%. We do stretching exercises three times a day with him. I wish that I would have pushed the doctor to send us to PT earlier. He waited three months after I first asked about it, so now Baby's head is flat in one spot.

We are still signing. He uses several signs--more, milk, eat, book, shoes, hat, all gone. And he understands more but does not make them. He has even started to put some signs together like more milk or more eat. He says a few words--dada, mama, bye-bye, bubble, pap pap.

He is also walking pretty well for an eleven month old. He hasn't quite mastered the stopping part. He usually just keeps going until I stop him or he falls over. I have lost about five pounds in the last month or so. I think it is from chasing him and carrying him up and down the stairs about five or six times a day.

He is still a really good sleeper. He almost always takes two naps during the day and the sleeps from about 8:30 until 7am. We are afraid that if we have another baby we won't be able to handle it because he has been so good and relatively easy to take care of.

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