Tuesday - If Mommy Would Only Listen

Gracie awoke in a great mood today. She was smiles all morning. We sang on the way to daycare and it was a good morning.

Gracie's project at daycare today was the cutest cow. Once again when I told her how pretty it was and how proud of her I was, she just beamed. Jeff picked her up at daycare and zoomed back to the clinic for a PT appointment. Gracie is on the same floor every week and insists upon making the rounds to all of the clinical assistants to say "hi". They are so good to her there. They take her hand and take her for a walk. When Leslie, her PT came to call her in, her intern Jay was right beside her. We met Jay last week and Gracie really liked him. Gracie was across the lobby and she ran to say hello to Leslie. She quickly greeted Leslie and then went to say hello to Jay too.

Gracie has a great love of the sink in the big exercise room. It is a sink her size and she can stand up to it. For months we struggled to get her to realize she could go to the sink AFTER we were all done with her PT or OT session. She would have tantrums because that is all she would want to do. So we finally have her trained that she gets to use the sink, but not until we are all done. So today we are 15 minutes into PT and she goes toward the sink. We tell her no and redirect her. She signs "music", but I really don't pay attention. For most of the rest of her session she was extremely distracted and kept heading for the sink. Finally Jeff, I, and Leslie decide to call it quits, because the sink is the only thing that had her attention. So I finally tell her it is okay and she walks over to the sink area, but doesn't want it. She stops just short of it where there is a musical Winnie the Pooh toy that she wanted to play with. She didn't want the sink...she wanted the toy. So we took the toy back to the matt and Leslie and Jay worked with her for a good 20 minutes while she occupied herself with the Winnie the Pooh toy. Had I only listened to her when she signed music. We all were in disbelief.

Gracie had a pretty good evening, but was tired from her big afternoon work out. So we listened to music, read books, marched a little, and just snuggled. She was asleep by 8:00 p.m.

Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie