It’s been too long since I’ve updated on Caleb’s progress. I am tired- it’s been crazy around here lately. He’s had an ear infection this week, and with other issues gong on around here, I just haven’t sat down to write much about him. But he is doing well. He’s made progress that’s subtle. He is bending his left knee upwards when he is taking a step in the walker, and that’s huge -he used to swing it out sideways and hope for the best. We are working on getting him to stand up without aids. Not happening yet, but the building blocks are being laid for that to happen. Also, I ordered a cute little scooter online that operates with hand controls on the advice of our lovely Occupational Therapist, Miss Cecilla, and it should hopefully encourage him to use his hands and arms to move it, and make progress towards being able to use crutches sometime in the future. He played with it some yesterday, and he thought he was hot stuff out there on the driveway with Joshua riding bikes. So he’s calling it his bike. It works for me. Here’s how he is doing with his walker.
I wish I could get good video of him talking. He’s made so much progress with his talking, but when he sees the camera he clams up. You’ll just have to come see him in person, and you’ll see he’s becoming quite chatty. He is also developing some core strength and head control, and a good deal of that is because of the trampoline he got for Christmas. Justin takes him out to bounce, and as boys will do, he got carried away with it. He bounced him pretty high, and Caleb LOVES IT. Justin has the coordination and strength to do this trick, but please don’t try this at home with your own disabled kid, and don’t make nasty comments on how crazy we are to allow this. Caleb is having a wonderful time, and he’s not being injured. You will enjoy this video – Caleb’s laugh is infectious.
