What Noa Did on Her Summer Break

Our Idaho vacation may be over, but the memories linger... unfortunately so do my ongoing issues with rotating video so that it posts on the blog properly. Oh well.

Well you get the idea of the one-hand walking from the photo anyway. Since coming home, Noa continues to want to try to walk holding just one hand. Sometimes she gets some real steam going, but balance is still an issue (I think she hopes speed will make up for balance but that only works for so long). But she really wants to make it work and our experience has been that once she gets it into her head to do something... she's eventually going to figure out how to do it.


In this photo from the fabulous Gold Folks hot spring you can really see just how long Noa is! She's downright lanky. She is really doing all the work here, I'm just giving her a little reminder every once in a while to arch her back "up up."

Noa also likes go from me to Ben, and then from Ben to me. To call it swimming with be a stretch, but we're working on getting her to use her arms and legs to propel herself. She has this insane level of confidence in the pool and keeps trying to go off on her own only to realize that she actually does need someone to hold onto to keep her head above water, but that doesn't stop her from taking a few much-needed gulps of air and then trying to escape again. She can actually stand in the shallow pools at Gold Folk so she was able to work on standing in the water the alone (and kneeling in the really shallow places) and bouncing -- and she really enjoyed that. I think she feels very free in the water - it just holds her in a way that air doesn't and that makes her more aware of her body in space which can be a challenging awareness for blind kids.



I don't know if this photo shows how tall Noa is, or how short I am!