Tuesday

Gracie had a pretty good night and was in a good mood this morning. We sang all the way to daycare.

Jeff picked Gracie up this afternoon and headed to the clinic for her OT appointment. Gracie was not in the cooperative mood again. This tends to be the theme with OT and Gracie. So we (Jeff and I) exited the room, but stayed close by. Our OT was very firm, but insisted Gracie complete the tasks given. She did of course, but grudgingly. The longer mom and dad were out of the room, the more cooperative she became. Then they came to find us and she cooperated for a little while, but then just wanted mommy to snuggle her and wouldn't cooperate again. We left again. That exit brought tears, but once she calmed down, she again cooperated. Gracie's OT felt that she has the capability to do the things asked and we changed our plan of reducing visits...we want to keep working on these challenges with her, so we will go back to two appointments a month.

Tonight when we got home Gracie decided to hold food and her meds in her mouth again. No sweat this time as we had all night to wait her out, we had no place to be. It took her a while, but she finally swallowed them. She was so tired tonight, she fell asleep 20 minutes before bedtime I am told. I wasn't here to witness it as I was at our tax appointment. You don't think daddy put her in bed early so he could go play on Facebook, do you??? ;)

Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie