A lot of new video this weekend... and a lot of new stuff!
Noa continues to make fast progress in the walking department. We got new braces for her feet last week (after she rather suddenly outgrew her previous braces) but I think they will take a while to get used. They tilt her foot every so slightly to try to prevent her from trying to balance on the inside of her foot... so for now we're just wearing for short stretches a few times a day. Even so, she seems to feel much more balanced in them. As you can see in this video, her latest trick is the one-handed walk.
The way she is walking, with her other hand along the wall, is called "trailing." This is something they do with the kids at her school. It keeps them walking in the right direction and helps them to orient themselves and learn where things like doors and windows are. You can see in this clip that she finds the corner and explores a bit of how it works. In time, she'll learn that if she turns at this corner, she'll be in the bedroom.
We continue to be amazed at how quickly she is making progress on her feet. It's not just the fact that she able to do more physically, it's also that she has a real interest in exploring her surroundings. And this new desire to explore may really be the MOST impressive thing. Frankly, it was not so long ago that Noa would have touched the wall and then just pulled her hand back. But now, if we're walking by a shelf she'll not only touch it, she'll start pulling stuff down... yes, just like any other kid (which is not something we get to say all the time!)
The second video is of us telling Noa that it's bath time... which is fun fun fun! In this clip you can see how exciting it is for Noa - not only to have bath time, but to be able to understand that it's bathtime, and to be able to tell us about her excitement!
It's kind of hard to convey what a huge difference signing has made in Noa's life (and in our lives), but hopefully a moment like this captures the joy of being able to have this very simple exchange.
Believe it or not, there is actually more video to come... but Noa's nap only lasts so long so it will have to wait.
2 comments:
What is exciting for me as a viewer is how Noa has some awareness of place and time. To be curious about her surroundings is for her to have an awareness of being somewhere...and to get excited about bath time is to understand something about now and what is about to happen.
Good stuff!
Yeah, Rick, you hit it right on the nose! It's such a lesson, really, to think about how exciting it is just to know what is going to happen next and have that anticipation... it's such a simple thing for us that we tend to forget how exciting it is.
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