25 months

Months: A lot is happening lately.

The hurricanes have really cut into our therapy schedule, but we are trying to keep up at home. She has had a lot of friends over lately, so that has given her a good workout. Aeden and owen came to stay overnight because they were without power. Her cousin Jaidyn came down from Pennsylvania and stayed for a few days. She is 9 months and is starting to stand and walk. I think that gave Whitney something to think about. She absolutely knew that Jaidyn was a baby, but yet saw her standing. They were very cute together. Whitney would put her arm around Jaidyn to help her up to a toy. She kissed her A LOT.

Whitney is able to stand for about 2 minutes with just a little bit of ankle support from us. She doesn't have to hold on. She is still scared, and very weak, but the braces seem to give her some confidence. She still hates them. I guess it's like bike training wheels....You hate them but they help. You want them off, but then you want them on. Whitney really seems to be beginning to think that standing up is good. It's becoming a preferred status. I remember when she started crawling that a similar thing happened with her being on all 4's instead of laying on her belly. I don't think walking is far off.


She visited the Audiologist today. Her ears are clear of fluid. He wanted to wait 3 months to test her hearing again, so we will go back in December. She will be a little more mature and able to indicate more in the tests.

Whitney's primary care physician's office was destroyed hurricane Frances. Trying to get her records has been difficult. We picked a new doctor for her and need to get her in asap because we have referrals to go to the insurance company for specialists. It's been a heck of a week. The insurance company granted us some gratis referrals to tide us over for this week's appointments. That was very nice.

A cute thing happened yesterday. Daddy came home, waved hello, and started out the door again to take our sitter home. Whitney started to cry. He stopped, came back and patted her. She still cried. He asked what was wrong and she made the sign for FISH. Well, we then knew that she wanted to go feed the fish and she thought he was going without her. This is something they do every day and she knew that it was time to go feed them. GOSH it was cute, and encouraging.