Big day for Emily. We headed to Twin Falls and started with her therapist, who was impressed with Emily the nine monther, therapy nazi for Emily the year old toddler. We departed with a long list of goals to work on and the suggestion that we leave it up to the pediatrician as to whether we stick with a monthly schedule or go to every three months (get to that in a second). Emily was a lot more willing to play and explore than she was compared to the last two sessions where she spent most of it fussing and crying. Our homework for the month -
1) work on side stepping between toys and furniture
2) work on symmetrical crawling and climbing (Emily prefers to go with her right leg first)
3) dumping objects and putting them back in
4) balancing exercises
5) use walking toys
Then we were off to run some errands, and Emily was a trooper through the stores and getting in and out of the car quite a few times. At one of our stops, we bumped into the mother of one Emily's roommates in the NICU, the little girl that sadly passed away from NEC... As a sign that life goes on, she's expecting again. Ironically due on the day of her daughter's angelversary.
We ended our day in Twin with Emily's 12 month baby well check and three shots. The doctor is pretty pleased with Emily, but we didn't get the three month pass at the therapist. Those two together are like drill sergeants, they won't slow down until Emily is ahead of the game. She weighed 19 pounds, 5 ounces (20th percentile), was almost 28 inches long (5th percentile), and an 18 inch head circumference (75th percentile). Food wise we get to introduce yogurt and cheese and in September we wean her off of breastmilk and formula and introduce whole milk before our October appointment so we can report how she handles it. And we're also supposed to master the sippy cup so that we can be completely off the bottle by then. It's quite the to do list...
