Megan's healing

For a while, Megan would play hide and seek with us, and she had even started covering her eyes when it was her turn to count. However, we lost that for several months and on Friday it came back. But this time she's much better at it. She's having way more fun and super excited about it . She's also back to playing cards with us again, which is a lot of fun.

Megan made the e sound when she saw her Ernie bath toy before her shower I think that might be the first time she's ever made that Chris clean e sound.   Yesterday and the day before during her therapy sessions speech occupational therapy and physical therapy Megan did quite a bit of her session without me. We've been doing a little bit of that for occupational and speech for a bit now but it was the first time she's ever, ever done physical therapy without me.

Megan has started clearing her own dishes from the kitchen table walking them to the sink and putting them in the sink gently. The last time we tried to teach her how to do this she would take them over to the sink and just drop them, or not pay attention to how she was holding it on the way to the sink and spill anything left, or just let the utensils fall out everywhere. The first time she did it a couple of days ago she just picked up the bowl correctly used her thumb to hold the spoon in the bowl walked over and set it in completely gently. Also yesterday I was massaging her low back and hips and while I was doing it I said to her that somebody who was trained on how to do it correctly would be doing it for her today and Megan picked her head up and looked at me and smiled the biggest smile.

 I meant to post part of this before vacation.  Megan has been very responsive and "with it" in the bath.   She got a new bath toy (bath book).  It came with a suction cup net that contained suction characters from the book (dinosaurs).  I asked her to match each character to the pages.   She pulled each character that I had stuck to the side of the tub and laid it on the page next to the picture in the book.   I did one and she corrected me.   She said no,  threw the one I put there in the water and grabbed the correct one.   They look similar but one is a slightly different color and has webbed feet.  Now that we're back from vacation I gave her a soaking,  playing bath.  We've played a game in the past where I line up some of her toys on the edge of the tub,  count to three and karate chop them into the water (she claps and laughs).  Today she was lining them up on the side and telling...

Megan had another wonderful day today. She did so many things understood everything that we said to her and complied. She was doing her favorite thing riding in her barrel train and they took her up to the barn area and told her she had to go through each game area and play before she could get back in the train and she just climbed out and did it. She played basketball, and connect four etc. She did so amazing in the bath too. Let me walk to the other side of the room and do things a little differently than we would ever have done them and she was just happily doing it. She did great on the wagon ride this morning they had to park for long periods of time to let the other kids feed the animals and she just looked at the animals and hung out and waited for them to start moving again.

Megan is not only continuing to be more verbal, but she is also understanding and responding to pretty much everything. She was trying to get her dad to pick up a piece of food she had dropped on the floor because she wanted to eat it and when I told her that if she was asking for the food that was on the floor that we don't eat food off the floor she went right back to what she was doing and stopped asking for the food. Not that long ago that wouldn't have solved the issue and we would have had to throw the food away to get her to stop fixating on it. We are on our first day of our vacation and she has been amazing. She was excited to do things that I was concerned she might be afraid of but we tried them and she had so much fun.

For the past few days Megan has been a lot more verbal. She is saying word approximations, she is saying words. She's saying a bunch of stuff that she thinks is words that we can't quite understand.