Thursday - All Sorts of Appointments

After Gracie's night terror she calmed down and slept quite good until 2:30 a.m., she awoke and continually pulled at her ears. I gave her some ibuprofen, a drink of water, and then we walked the floor for about 30 - 45 minutes. When I layed her down she fell back to sleep but every time I would take my hand off of her she would wake back up. She finally fell back into a good sleep about 3:30 - 4:00 a.m. Then she didn't want to wake up this morning...even though she got to sleep in later than usual.

Gracie's early intervention teacher and new occupational therapist from the Birth to Three program came to work with her today. Gracie loves her teacher Emily and had hugs and smiles for her. She even took her marching around the kitchen. She was a little more reserved with Michael the new OT. He was very good with her and let her come around at her own pace. Gracie worked on purposeful release into a bucket, we got a new book to work on for speech, she got to play some cymbals, although she wasn't too sure about those.

Gracie was a happy girl when I dropped her off at daycare. Daddy picked her up at 3:30 p.m. and took her to her appointment with the prosthetic lab. Her new orthotics came in so we had a fitting scheduled for them. If you've read previous posts, these are the ones that they made, but they weren't right for her foot, so we took her back, had them mold her feet and now we have her new ones. They look good, but we haven't had her really start wearing them. Since we have to monitor her feet every 15 minutes for the first couple of days she wears them, we'll start that on the weekend.

Gracie was a tired girl again tonight and got upset with daddy. I'm not even sure what for but she took a big pad of post-it notes and smashed them in his eye. When she gets in these moods, it's hard to remember she is mostly a sweetie pie. I'm finding that dealing with her in a calm manner is much more effective than raising my voice. The OT sensory specialist indicated that once we get her on a "sensory diet" throughout the day, these night outbursts should be reduced.

Gracie could hardly wait to get into the bathtub. As the water was running she started climbing in while fully dressed. She had a good splashing time.

Gracie has come down with an all out cold. Poor thing -- her nose is a faucet.

She is now sleeping very peacefully.

Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie