Brag Day Wednesday!

Assembly_Reqd

Post those brags! There should be a lot since we skipped last week!

mopdop2000

On Monday dh and I drove ds2 to an appointment at Denver Children's. It took us 5.5 hrs to get there, 1 hr lunch with friends, 1.5hrs at the hospital, then 5.5 hrs driving to get back home! Ds2 did wonderful - of course the DVD player had a lot to do with it.

My main brag, however, was that he stayed dry the almost the whole day!!! He only wet his pull-up once.

lite-bright

We got DD1's progress report on her IEP goals, and she has mastered or is close to mastering all of them! I spoke to two of the team members yesterday and we're going to re-open her IEP, come up with new goals and tweak the ones she's partially accomplished. I thought these were really solid goals that she'd be working on most of the year, and I'm so impressed that she's made such wonderful progress only halfway through the school year!  

I took DD1 out for Black Friday shopping on Friday morning, and we had SO much fun together. It was a real pleasure. She listened, stayed close, and was much less distracted than usual. We went to the mall, visited a few stores, and I let her pick out a couple of ornaments at the Disney store. She saw some pajamas with pirates on them and mentioned that DD2 likes pirates -- so I let her get them as part of DD2's Christmas gift from DD1.

And -- this totally melted me -- I let her pick out a small plush Buzz Lightyear (her current fave character) and suggested that she pick out one for DD2 as well; they both really like Toy Story right now. Well, she went over to the larger toys and picked out an even bigger Buzz for DD2. That wasn't quite what I'd had planned, but no way was I going to discourage her from picking out a bigger toy for someone else than she had for herself! God, I adore this child! (And DD2 loved her surprise. )

oh_maria

DS took 4 steps unassisted! I started crying. We also finally picked up his Spio suit yesterday. It's been a good week so far!

goldenleaves

lite-bright:

We got DD1's progress report on her IEP goals, and she has mastered or is close to mastering all of them! I spoke to two of the team members yesterday and we're going to re-open her IEP, come up with new goals and tweak the ones she's partially accomplished. I thought these were really solid goals that she'd be working on most of the year, and I'm so impressed that she's made such wonderful progress only halfway through the school year!  

I took DD1 out for Black Friday shopping on Friday morning, and we had SO much fun together. It was a real pleasure. She listened, stayed close, and was much less distracted than usual. We went to the mall, visited a few stores, and I let her pick out a couple of ornaments at the Disney store. She saw some pajamas with pirates on them and mentioned that DD2 likes pirates -- so I let her get them as part of DD2's Christmas gift from DD1.

And -- this totally melted me -- I let her pick out a small plush Buzz Lightyear (her current fave character) and suggested that she pick out one for DD2 as well; they both really like Toy Story right now. Well, she went over to the larger toys and picked out an even bigger Buzz for DD2. That wasn't quite what I'd had planned, but no way was I going to discourage her from picking out a bigger toy for someone else than she had for herself! God, I adore this child! (And DD2 loved her surprise. )

That is heartwarming!

goldenleaves

Lauren got a tooth! I wasn't expecting it yet since kids with Ds tend to get teeth later than NT kids.

Also, she's been able sit up independently (not get into a sitting position, we have to put her there) for as long as 5-10 minutes! It's so cool to watch her learn new things!

JoJoGee

I wish I could "Like" all of your brags.  They're all so awesome! 

 Lily has met 4 out of her 6 physical therapy goals that were set in late August.  And, she moved up 10 points on the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS).  She's only 5 points from moving up into the next classification.  All she has to do now is sit independently for 1 minute.

MaxandRuby

DS2 (3yr) told me the other day that "X pull my hair" (a child from daycare). While it turned out to be not entirely true, I was floored that he was able to formulate and then speak a sentence telling me of something that was done to him. Awesome!

Soapstone

My husband was looking at some catalog that came in the mail and I jokingly told Amelie to tell daddy not to spend any money. She looked at him and said "Don't do that!" while wagging her finger. I'm guessing she picked that one up at school

Rdmaggie

A started giving kisses to pics and sometimes us, she kisses her hand and makes the noise then puts it on our face. She also pointed out to a water tower, used her index finger and said "Zat" (whats that). I was pretty floored since shes never pointed to anything or tried to get our attention.

grbnik

I just wanted to say how awesome all those posts were.  It made my day to read them.  Thanks for sharing!