Friday, July 9, 2010

Magic Moments

Love you my little sister!!

This is how you stretch before you go for a run

I said leave my cheek alone

Calm down naughty sister, you are too jumpy

Mobility - My New Found Love

I have been hopping on the walker for a while now and the wheels have also been put on for quite some time. But in recent days, I am making true use of it. It started with my ability to crawl over any small to medium sized obstacles. I am the king (queen rather) when I am on the floor with no known boundaries. I can now reach out to my sister and snatch what she was playing with (pay back time, big sister!). With a good understanding of benefits of movement, I have translated that onto my walking skills - really using those walker wheels to its fullest. I move from room to room, often with great speed. Thoroughly enjoying this experience!

You know that I could sit very well now. So the trick to my mobility has expanded into a switch from sitting to crawling in less than 6 seconds, I kid you not ... this is state of the art mobile stuff. I am working on crawling to sitting right now. Little bit more to go in that area. Of course it works when I throw a little tantrum when I can't sit back up ... one of the adults comes to rescue.

My mom and us were playing hide and seek the other day. My mom went to hiding ... and my sister was telling me it was ok - it was only a game. I stood there quietly. My sister spent some time looking for my mom - but after a while she was getting frustrated. Forgetting what she was telling me minutes back, she started to cry. I thought I would take it on myself to rescue my poor sister. I walked around in my walker and found my mom hiding in the bedroom. My mom thought that was very smart of me. I am well establishing the notion that I am the more calm and collected among the two of us - me and my sister.

Need very little support to stand