19 Months

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to update everyone on how well our little man is doing! He is now 19 months old - can you believe it. He is finally getting over a really bad ear infection and is on day 19 of antibiotics (the amoxicillian didnt work after 9 days of it) and is ready to work really hard.

He is doing very well with his oral motor program. He is able to eat a half of a dry cheerio without choking and not using his tongue as much as he used to when taking the food off the spoon. He is also working hard on holding his spoon and eating food off his fingers. He is also all done with his bottle!!! We are only using sippy cups now and he is doing very well with it. He's such a big boy!!!

Brandon wants to talk so bad - he has been talking up a storm and trying out all new sounds. He also loves to make his noises while he is biting on his hand from his 2 new teeth that are coming in! He is also interacting with us a lot and is always so full of smiles. We had music group this week and they had him sit on a plastic bucket with his feet on the floor at a 90 degree angle. He has a blast! (grammie Anderson came with us too!). It was the most I had ever seen him participate in this group. He was holding the instruments and banging his hands and talking. A lot of the time he gets too comfy in my lap and falls asleep so this was AWESOME! At one point I was moving him around to dance while he was sitting and he stood right up! He also has been initiating standing a lot more. His neck is much stronger we just have to work on his balance and trunk strength now.

We are going to a vision conference this Saturday. It is at Perkins School for the Blind in MA. Keith will be on the father panel (its a small group of fathers who will answer questions and talk to other families. I have been asked to facilitate the CVI group parent support group! It should be fun and we got a lot of good information last year and met some really great people. I have also been voted in to the Governors Board for Children with Visual Impairments. This is a group that consists of vision teachers, eye dr, tech people and so on. Our job is to write the agenda for RI and find ways to implement it. It meets once a month and I have already learned so much.

Hope everyone is well. xoxoxox

This is B Speech pathologist and Parents as Teachers working with him on his oral motor program.

We switched Brandons stander around so he wouldn't have any back support (prone) - his neck is getting much stronger!

Daddy's helping me learn how to feed myself!