PT

The babies had their a PT visit this last Wednesday.  It was scheduled late enough that if I went into work early I could get meet Christian at the appointment and go with him.  It was potentially their last one and I had questions so it was nice that I could go.  Christian is actually really good at asking detailed questions and reporting back to me.  But it is still not the same.

I know I have mentioned this before but I love our PT.  He is awesome.  If anyone has to to PT in our area for their kids, Kelly is incredible.  Really what I love the most is that he is real.  He tells us how it really is and is straight forward, yet is very understanding.  

Today was a big day in Maci's little world.  She graduated PT.  She is doing fabulous.  She can now look both ways great.  We will continue her exercises for the next 2 months and there are a few other things we will need to do with her indefinitely.  But this is great news.  She is doing awesome.  She is still delayed but is improving.  Better yet, she is striving to improve.  Kelly will continue to work with her when we bring in Beckett but will not chart on her as she will no longer be a patient.  YEA MACI!!!!

The only thing Beckett doesn't like is PT.  And he more than dislikes it, he HATES it.  It makes him into the biggest grump and it will last all day and sometimes all night.  So you would think he would hurry up and graduate already.   Nope instead he will often times refuse to even do his exercises.  Poor kid hates it that much.  Kelly calls it, "giving him his swears"  when Beckett yells at him.  His head motion and strength is much improved.  But it seems to take almost nothing to give him a set back.  He is not close to crawling or even scooting.  I think his smile is good enough.  He has had improvements on his head shape.  And when force, he can have the best posture.  Kelly says he lacks motivation probably for 2 reasons.  First, it is just his personality.  He is just a laid back easy kid.  He is happy and smiley.  He is a lot like Landon.  If it isn't a game Landon really doesn't see a reason to do things.  Beckett is kind of the same.  The second, is because he has so many helpers.  All he has to do is squawk and there are so many there to do things for him.  That's funny because I am certain he looks at Maci and is thinking...Hey will you get me a snack when you are in there...or......why are you moving? You know they will bring it to you if you yell loud enough.

So we are trying some new things with our little Bubba.  We went to DI to get the bright, loudest most obnoxious toys.  Did you know that's where those toys live?  And they work!!!  When mom's find out how obnoxious those toys are they send them straight to the DI.  It works for us because we got 3 of them for about 5 bucks.  And these special headache toys only come out during PT time.   

Also we are looking at getting both Maci and Beckett getting evaluated by Kids on the Move.  We don't think Maci will qualify.  We are hoping Beckett will and then by doing both Kids on the Move and out patient PT, maybe we can make a little more improvement. 

Wish us luck!