Whew! My boy is 11.5 months. How the hell did that happen?!?! Sometimes I look at him and I don't see an almost 1-yr old. Maybe it's because I know the things that an almost 1-yr old should be doing, and Colin isn't doing those things! Sometimes I want to scream at down syndrome because the things that should be so easy for Colin, aren't! But then I know how things *could* be and I thank my lucky stars that everything with Colin is as good as it is! He's such an amazing little boy. We are so blessed.
So, what is Colin up to these days?? No teeth. {boo} Which makes feeding quite a challenge. He still eats everything pureed. He doesn't even like anything with texture. We have a speech evaluation and PT evaluation next Monday. I know he definately has texture issues when eating.
He's a CHAMP when it comes to sitting up! No problems there!! Crawling? Yea, no. Apparently, uncomfirmed reports {aka, his daycare teacher!} are that he has done some army crawling at school. We have yet to see that at home. He wants to do it. And we work with him, but he doesn't. You can tell that Colin knows that he has to do something to get to the toy that is laying in front of him, but he doesn't do it! I know, it will come. It just makes me sad. Again, it makes me want to scream at the down syndrome!!! I have told Steve that I would be happy to have Colin crawling by the time he turns 1. I remind Colin all the time that he's getting close. Sometimes it makes me sad to see so many babies that are close to Colin in age and they are already WALKING. And my baby has yet to crawl. But that's ok. It will come!
OT is going great! This past week she brought in a few buckets with black beans and some with noodles. He got to play in both and he LOVED it! So that was great to see. He may have texture issues when eating, but not when playing!
Here are a few recents pictures of the little almost 1-yr old! ENJOY!
He STILL loves his boat rides - falls asleep in an instant!
Happy almost birthday! He's quite the cutie. And yes.... those things will come.
ReplyDeleteI to find it hard to know what Sean "should" be doing, but eh..... For everything my daughter didn't do, Sean is doing & vice versa.
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