Too cute for words!

The girls have really stepped it up with their vocabulary lately. Paige is our bigges talker...especially when she wants something to eat. She's always saying "cookies, yogurt, applesauce, chicken, hotdog, cracker, cheese, cereal", any food she can think of until I give in and say ok. Bree always wants to know what's going on, saying things like "gotta go, go walk, take a bath, go eat, we're home, go pool, and my favorite, I love you more". They also love to sing songs like, Etsy Pitsy Spider, Row Row Row your boat, Patty Cake, Twinkle Twinkle, and Barney's I Love You are their most requested. We had a couple of birthdays so I tried to teach the girls to sing Happy Birthday...Paige will say "Happy Day To You"...too cute! It's truly unbelieveable what they are able to say now...Bree is trying to keep up with Paige. How many kids do you know that can hum the theme song to Jeopardy? My Paige can, along with Sponge Bob Square Pants, and Dora the Explorer. It has gotten so hard to recall all the word they know, and everyday I hear a new one. It's so exciting!

One step at a time

It was just another day a therapy...Thursdays are Physical Therapy day. Paige started first with PT while Bree had Massage. The therapist usually puts the girls in the walker and has them walk down the hall to the closet with the cookies...great motivation for Paige. Beth, their PT, has been working with Paige on walking without holder her hands. She took a few steps while holding only one hand. I was amazed...she looked like such a big girl. Then the moment I will never forget. Beth let go and Paige took 5 steps all by herself. I have to admit I had tears in my eyes. I didn't know if I would ever see her walk on her own. Now I'm confident she'll be walking with limited help by school and hopefully by the wedding in October. I'm so incredibly proud of her.

And let's not forget Bree. I think she's feeling the pressure to keep up with big sis. The past few days she's making more strides towards crawling. She usually gets around by "army crawling" but has graduated to the bunny hop that Paige was so famous for. In addition, now that she is spending more time on her hands and knees, she has learned to prop herself up into a "W " sitting position. Her core strenght is really improving and I'm hoping in a few months she'll move to a proper sitting position.

Unfortunatly, my camera is not working. As soon as I can I will post pictures of Paige walking and Bree crawling and sitting.

Day at the Park

Paige, Bree, Connor and I took a trip to the park with Grandma last week. Connor made friends with a couple of girls...go Connor...while to girls played on the swings. I took a couple of pictures on Grandma's phone. My camera isn't working so I haven't been able to take any pictures of the kids lately. Everyone had fun and it was a beautiful day.


Bree loves the swings.


Paige is such a cutie!



Weeeeeee!!!!


Paige, with her hair in her face...drives me nuts!

So, Paige learned how to pedal the tricycle at therapy this week. She was so excited she rode right into another bike. She's really getting the hang of it. Bree took a few steps in the walker the same day. She looked like such a big girls standing so tall. I would be such a happy mommy if she could use the walker by October, but I know that's a huge goal to put on her. So, I'd be happy if she was just sitting unassisted by then. As for Paige, she is definately capable of walking with the walker by then. I guess we'll have to work as hard as we can, and see what our girls can accomplish in the next 6 months.

Our New Braces!

Wednesday was our trip to Shriner's Hospital in Tampa...mission...get DAFOs and evaluation for wheelchair and walker. The trip went as well as the last one...some screaming, some sleeping, and as always, lots of eating (little piggies). Today is our second day with the braces and so far so good. Bree was having some trouble with her muscles tightening, but she's learning to relax and has had them on for almost an hour now. Paige adapted well, but still makes attempts to rip the velcro off. Here are some picture I took of the girls and the Gait Trainer.

Paige taking Big Girl steps!
I know, I know! Get rid of the stinkin' binky!
Bree was a little scared at first.
Well looky there...I'm standing all by myself!

So now we have to wait for all the red tape to get sorted out before we get Bree's wheelchair and Paige's walker.

This is Bree's wheelchair. It will look a little different because they are adding a seating system as well.

This is Paige's exact walker!