The day started off with a little drama. Cathy heard Maria yell for her this morning and figured it was her usual “Mommy, change my diaper” yell. As she was changing Maria’s diaper, Cathy saw an ant. Then another. And another. The bed was swarming. Cathy whipped her out of there, took off her clothes and found many ant bites. Although they’ve had ant outbreaks in the living room and kitchen, I believe Maria’s bedroom has always been safe. Still, silver lining – Maria yelled when she was in trouble. There was a time she wouldn’t have reacted at all much less thought to call for help.
We continue to struggle with the augcomm device. The speech and occupational therapists came up with some great new scheme for the symbols, but they have told us only a few things about it. We aren’t using it much because we are unsure how best to integrate it. We had hoped to be using it regularly by the time school starts, but that’s only two weeks away. It’s frustrating that there has been so little progress made but the speech therapist is just piddling around with it and we’ve been waiting for her to take the lead.
Other than these couple of incidents, Maria is doing well. She gets her 5-year checkup with the pediatrician tomorrow but that should be routine. The PT is off this week so Maria gets a break but often those breaks are as important as the therapy. We’ll have to be sure to stay on top of standing and walking and such this week. As usual, it’s not so much whether she can do it but whether she wants to.