weinraub’s words

Sometimes, when we count to ten, Becca will chime in. Still a few blanks in there, but getting better.

Becca and I walked to 7-11 today, taking an umbrella with us. We shopped for our stuff, paid the cashier, and headed back home. After about 20 meters, Becca turned back towards 7-11 and I started to give her a hard time about not needing to go back in, all our stuff was bought, we need to return to Mommy, etc.

Turns out I had forgotten the umbrella.

Amazing.

Becca plugs the video cables into the front of the TV.

Last week we were playing on the beach and there were lots of tiny crabs. I caught a few and let Becca look at them. at first, she was scared to touch it, reaching a tentative finger and then quickly withsdrawing. But after time, with no urging, simply by allowing her to look at it, she eventually picked it up using index/thumb around the front/rear of its body.

She can now open the door that previously kept her imprisoned on the porch.

Sometimes when Becca holds a hose or a handheld shower-head, she inadvertently sprays herself in the face. Now, she actually sprays her face on purpose and then wipes off the water.

Becca now pulls over a chair in order to climb up and see what is up on a table. Amazing!

She’s also “talking” more. Not just one syllable sounds; stringing together a collection of sounds – still gibberish, but sounds more like conversation, like it could be another language.

She is also jumping better, clearly getting air.

Her bowlegs seem dramatically improved. Left is still worse than the right, but probably under the level at which I would consider the surgery option (pins for several years on the outside edges of the tibia to prevent growth, then six-weeks in a cast).

When I say “1, 2,…” she says “Threee”. Not bad.

She sings along with videos now, sometimes actually nailing a word or a sound correctly.