Henry has continued to amaze us with his evolving skills set. He has refined his pinching skills. His Gerber puffs have been a motivating force behind this. And when he is standing up, he sometimes goes from his hands on the window or walls right to the ground (rather than lowering himself to a sitting position first). He is obviously feeling confident in his upper body strength.
Dorsett (PT) came on Thursday while I was at work. Jeff said that she said "Great!" when she saw Henry do the bear walk. We think that we only have one or two sessions left with Dorsett. Those are the visits covered by our insurance (as opposed to Shirley who is covered through our state early invention programs, specifically through DDD).
On Friday, Shirley came over at 2PM. She played ball with Henry and worked on getting him on and off his zebra. She says that he is doing about 75% of the work on his dismount, which is pretty darn good. We asked Shirley what she thought of the bear crawl. She'd never heard of it being a problem. I told her that I could only find one case study on the Internet that mentioned the bear crawl as a problem. She asked me what it said. Well, there were five siblings in southern Turkey who had some kind of cerebellar ataxia, obviously congenital, and never learned to walk; they move through the bear crawl and can't seem to get upright. She'd seen a documentary on them on PBS. I figured if that the only case I could find was a congenital one, then it seemed like this was probably not something we should worry about, but I just wanted to confirm with her that it wasn't an issue. We're going with the two PTs' expertise, and they think that Henry's doing great.
Tara came as Shirley was leaving. It was time for Henry's 6 month review. Basically, Henry has met (and exceeded) all of the goals that we had set up when we first signed up for early intervention. There is a lot of paper work involved with early intervention, so going through all of the prior goals and coming up with new goals took a long time. The developmental coordinator isn't allowed to put words in parents' mouths, so we had to articulate each piece. For example, one goal is that we want Henry to be able to walk by the time he is 18 months old. Not only did we have to state this goal, but we had to state why it is important to us. Tara apologized for the paperwork. Another goal was that we want Henry to be able to self-feed in the next 6 months. And again, we had to state why it was important. The importance of walking and self-feeding seems rather obvious, but reasons had to be given. They included enlightening reasons as "We want Henry to be able to move from A to B by himself while on his feet, the accepted, typical mode of transport in our society" and "Self-feeding will encourage Henry's independence."
We had scheduled an interview with our first nanny candidate (Risper) for 6:30PM. She was originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon, but then she canceled and rescheduled for Friday. She never showed up on Friday. Lovely. We have a interview set up with someone named Lauren for Monday. She sent a resume, which looked good. We are hoping that she is a good fit for Henry.
On Saturday, we dropped off Henry in the morning at my parents' house and went to see Prince Caspian. As we left my parents' house, Henry was busy trying to figure out how to get through the dog door. After the movie, we got some lunch and stopped by Pearle Vision to get Jeff some new glasses. Henry broke his last pair. Jeff's new glasses are made of titanium! Hopefully, Henry won't break the new ones when they arrive next week. During his visit with his grandparents, he ate blueberries for the first time and had summer squash with pasta (level 3 food). We'd tried pasta once before, and it hadn't gone well. We suspect that Henry is getting much better with textures because he truly loves the Gerber puffs, which he eats a couple times a day now.
Last night, we went for a walk around sun down. Oddly, one of our neighbors who lives on a side street that is on the other side of the street that touches the east side of our property had set up a valet service with a tent on our side of the road; the tent was a little bit on our property. It is a part of our property that we use to put our garbage out on Fridays and one of our next door neighbors uses as well (on Thursdays as they have a different garage service). The valet tent wasn't a big deal, but common courtesy would suggest that you ask your neighbors before setting up a tent on or near their property, especially when you don't live on that side of the street. Weird. We were pleased that the bustle didn't phase Henry. We stayed off the road on which the tent was set up because there was a lot of dust from the traffic.
The weather was beautiful last night. We brought along Henry's peach puffs for the journey. So he ate, while relaxing in the baby Bjorn. I don't think that Jeff is going to be able to handle Henry in the Bjorn much longer. He's getting too big! The Bjorn has certainly served us very well. It gets used at least once a day if not twice.
Henry had a bath last night. He had fun splashing around and playing with some new toys that his Aunt Jennifer sent him.
He woke up this morning around 5:15AM screaming for his bottle. Had the bottle. Went back to sleep for a couple of hours. Played with his daddy for a while. We went for a morning stroll. Then, we had a family breakfast, which we usually do on Saturdays and Sundays. Henry was quite hungry. I think that he is enjoying his solids more and more. Jeff has taken Henry to his grandparents' house for the afternoon. That's all for now.
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