23 1/2 months
Today Lively played happily with his Aunt Penny for around 30 minutes. This is a big deal because when he's outside of his comfort zone, Lively oftentimes just sort of melts down and refuses to function. Penny lives in Oklahoma, so the kids only get to see her 3 or 4 times a year, but Lively had tons of fun playing with his connecting beads, and was even able to push 2 of them together, which is something I'm not sure he's done before. He still has a lot of fine motor delays and left-sided weakness because of his stroke, and he struggles to manipulate small objects. But today he connected 2 beads. Go Lively!
Lively also enjoyed playing his xylophone with Penny, and even signed "music" to all of us on his way to bed.
Right now, Lively does these signs pretty consistently:
- all done
- cup
- shoes
- night night
- love
- eat
- up
- down
- bye bye
And that's about all we have for words. I guess it's a start.
It's so much more than a start, honey, it is HUGE. No matter what label is placed on Lively at this point, having that degree of imitation skills as second birthday approaches is such a wonderfully positive sign. Trust me, I know. ... Keep your head up.
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That is a pretty good list! Way to go, Lively!
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