54

You all know how much I love posting numbers in the title because that only means one thing...ANOTHER RECORD... of 54 seconds!!! For those of you just tuning in, Josie is working on independent standing. She needs to be consistently in the 30s and 40s to take independent steps. With her balance issues this has been a hard task to accomplish. We had 45 once, but ever since then we haven't been able to even get to 40. She is consistent with the 30s. Today, after quite a few tries, we asked her to just bear down and make it to 40 so we could move on to the next exercise. She put her game face on and was standing so solidly and quickly past 40 and went straight onto 54. It was so exciting. Sylwia made her a sign to celebrate as you can see in the picture above. In the car on the way home, I commented about how she must have felt so strong and that she was using her muscles so well. Her comment was, "I just really put my heart into it that time." Love her.

We did have a record, which is so exciting, but also she had a fabulous day all around. She walked so far and so fast. She went down the hall, past the kitchen, down the other hall to the parents waiting room and Przemek had to only catch her once the whole way. He even went in front of her for part of the way. She is loving walking...one year ago I would have told somebody they were crazy if they said she would think that one year later. She has her great attitude back and is loving the challenge of this again.

School is going really well too. She is really starting to put the reading thing together finally. It is so much fun to watch it all click. She is starting to enjoy it too. Thanks for checking in. Hoping to finish off the week with a bang tomorrow. Jenny and Josie