Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Kickin Butt

Hubercito continues to do an awesome job in Occupational Therapy. There is a lot of different things we are working on and just not enough time to really be able to work on everything at once. We only have 1 more week before all the teachers go on their summer vacations so they are trying to get Hubercito everything he will need for the summer before that starts.
Christine our teacher is very optimistic and was amazed at how responsive Hubercito is. When we asked him to touch a toy you could see him raise his hand a lil as if trying to. When she would tell him okay we are going to do this now, he would stiffen up as if knowing she was about to move him to a new position. She called his name today sitting behind him and he stopped what he was doing and tried to find her. These are all things that Huber and I have seen all along but as always it is always nice to see a professional who works with many kids with special needs get so excited about him doing so well and being so responsive to what we talk to him about. She said that he is a very intelligent lil guy.
We met a physical therapist today named Anne who is going to be bringing us a stroller to use that will position Hubercito better then the one we have and is also going to let us play around with a walker since he is accepting and liking standing up right now. With the walker it will give him the support he needs allowing us to teach him to use his feet and legs to get around. He is definatly more wiggly and always trying to get down when being held. I am very excited to see how he does with these.
We will also be meeting with a behaviorist who will be able to talk to me and help me with some ideas on how to get him to sleep easier and faster which is probably the biggest challenge I have with him right now.
I am loving the therapies here in California! He has already received so much more attention and the fact that getting equiptment is so easy is awesome!

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