"Good grief Mom, enough with the camera!"
"Okay, I'll smile for this picture...but only because it's Mothers Day"
Every six months the DDD comes out and we talk about how Dane is doing and set new goals for him for the next six months. I was so proud that he had mastered all of his goals that were set for him six months ago, like getting himself into a sitting position, crawling and more babbling. He has kicked some serious preemie butt in all of those goals...so now we move on to new goals. Of course walking is a major goal for the next six months, but the big one is speech. Speech is the area that he is the most delayed in, he does a lot of pointing and grunting to communicate with us. We encourage him to sign to us, which he has been doing awesome with...he is pretty consistently signing "more", "drink", and "all done". There are times that he refuses to sign, but we take his hands and do the signs for him before he gets what he wants. We want him to start mimicking our speech with in the next six months...that is the biggie right now. He seems to have a bit of an ornery side to him, but for now we treat him like we would any other child when he acts up. Time out in his play pen and stuff like that, it's just so hard to tell what is a behavior issues VS. disabilities. I personally think that he is a smarty pants with an attitude!
Today, we had him strapped into his toddler rocking chair to watch a video while Chad and I worked on a spread sheet for his business. Next thing we hear "THUMP", we look over and there goes Dane crawling across the floor with the chair still attached to him! He couldn't see where he was going because he couldn't look up, ya know these things are hard when you have a rocking chair strapped to your back...we heard him swinging his legs but we had no idea that he was doing it with the intention of rocking himself completely forward! He looked like a hostage victim trying to get to away while still tied up! He took off crawling until he hit the wall! There is no one that can tell me that this child is not a genius...or at least an escape artist!
We are going to try to get a video of him doing it, it was the funniest thing that I had seen in long time!
I know, he looks like an angel in the pictures above...but trust me, there is something behind those eyes that is full of mischief!
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That is sooo funny!!! Love these pictures they are great and yes I think he is a big smarty pants! Bless him for kicking the preemie issues in the butt!!
It was great to see all of you at church yesterday! Love Ya!
It's just so fantastic seeing Dane progress.
He's such a testament to how awesome our God is.
What a cutie!!! I was loving looking at him from a far at church on Sun. And I love watching you as a mom to a little one! It is beautiful!!!!
Laughing about his chair story! It brings back memories. We were at some old friends house for dinner a couple years ago. Their daughter had been struggling to listen and in the middle of dinner had needed to go to time out. They strapped her in a similar kids rocking chair in another room. We then all went on with dinner and were surprised at how quiet she had become in the other room. We should have known! Around the corner she comes, still strapped in, waddling with the chair nearly taking her down. It was one of those moments that you try so hard not to laugh at as a parent but there was no stopping any of us! The lesson was ruined but the laugh was so worth it!
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