7 months old :)

Last Wednesday Ellie had her appt with PT, OT, and the DS (developmental specialist). The appt went well and we got an idea of how much later it usually takes a VI (visionally impared) child to develop. She's is doing good and on the right track. She's going to have appointments which each of the therapists once a week, luckily they'll come to the house and daycare. This way Christie gets experience on how to help her develop while she's with her and I get to participate without being out of work all the time.

The last post was Ellie being sick. She's doing much better now, but she's still on her antibiotics but she'll finish those later this week. Friday night Ellie made her first rasberry! She had been working on it for a while but she finally figured it out. It was really nice because we were skype'ing with Dusty so he got to see/hear too! She doesn't have it locked down but she likes trying. One thing PT pointed out was, when you pull her up by her arms she doesn't try to lift her head, it just stays back. So El and I have been working on that and she lifted her head a few times last night when we were practicing. She also is doing SUPER on sitting up on her own, she did it for about 10 seconds on her own. The poor baby doesn't use the bumbo anymore because her little chunky-chunk legs are too think for it.

Monday starts her first week of therapies. I'm super excited to see how she progresses. We have a lot of help now and we're so lucky because of it. Hopefully this week one of her teeth pops through!

I almost forgot that when I took Ellie to the clinic to get her follow-up appt that someone said "Oh, she's tracking things so well." Ummm... No, no she's not. She's blind, he responded "Are you sure because she's looking around." Let's get this out of the way now... Ellie can't see! She may have some light perception out of her right eye but we won't know how much until she can talk and tell us. Blind people can still move their eyes around. It's not like us sighted people when we pretend to be blind and close our eyes. That seriously made me laugh. Am I sure?

Then someone yesterday at a derby function told me what she was looking at while I was holding her. It's not the first thing I say to people but I felt the urge in this case and then the lady apologized to me. I politely said No reason to apologize. I should say sorry to you that you don't get the experience to raise a blind child and get the wonderful experiences that I do. She smiled and said you're right. :)