Here she is working with Diane. Diane was supporting her elbow and she was opening the pockets in the book totally on her own! Yet another goose bump moment.
Quinn was eating pineapple at school. It sounds like she was not a big fan. Weird enough right now she is still on a cheese kick, cheesecake and cheese soup. Hmmm. You never know what she is going to like.
I have not really talked about things Quinn is doing right now, so here goes.
She is doing a great job talking when she wants to, but is working even harder at signing, she will sign potty, and is still doing well on that front. She is doing a great job answering yes and no questions by raising her hands. She will raise her left hand for yes, and her right hand for no. In fact, when it comes to her talking, if you are not listening, she will answer your question before you even finish asking it, so as soon as you start talking to her, be listening, because she is fast, and if she has answered you, she is ready for the next task. She amazes me. Sometimes she is very simple with quick yes no answers, but other times she will start singing and wow, she can get loud! She is smart and she blows me away. Granted sometimes it’s like all the connectors in her brain are not connecting and she is not so talkative and involved, but other times she is connecting and I’ve truly had a few good chats with her, and that is wonderful!
She is doing great with working on puzzles. She is doing a great job getting her pointer finger out to open flaps on books, and turn pages with just a little elbow support. She continues to work hard to open and close her hands to pick and pull things like lacing up things, and holding paint brushes to paint with.
Quinn is also working hard with walking and standing. Granted she does not love walking in her walker, but she is walking with help. If you did not see the video a few posts back, you should check it out. She likes to stand in her walker, as long as she can look around, but that is where it ends. I’m hoping this is just a phase and she will figure out how nice it is to move around on her own.
Quinn is sleeping great when she gets to sleep, her favorite place to fall asleep, is in dad’s arms. Her allergies are acting up, so we have to do a bunch of suctioning before bed, and again when she wakes up, but she is sleeping though the night, for the most part, and I love that. It seems like half of the time she is still asleep in the morning after meds, getting dressed and about the time we get to the car, she wakes up. Then after a few minutes spent to suction her, she starts to wake up. I feel for her in the mornings, having to cough so hard just a few minutes after waking up has got to be miserable.
As for the drooling, I don’t get her. If she is working hard, she is drooling, and I get that. If we are home and she is chilling, she tends to drool, but as soon as we venture out, on a walk, to the store, basically anywhere doing something, she does not drool, or cough, or anything. She does great. Then whether it’s 20 minutes or 3 hours of being out with no coughing or drooling, the moment we get back into the car or the house, or Chrissy’s, she turns on like her little teapot self, and the drool pours out.
Quinn is fickle about kisses, sometimes she loves to get kisses, and sometimes she does a good job giving them as well, although sometimes it feels more like a lick, but I’ll take it. Other times, she will give me the dirtiest looks and pull away as much as possible to “be cool” or something. Surely that cannot be happening already! Can it?
She is also acting shy more and more often. When grandma and grandpa were here last weekend, for the first 30 minutes, she looks the exact opposite direction of where ever grandma was. Finally grandma got some books out to get Quinn to pay attention to her, and she was still looking in the opposite direction but I was watching her eyes, and she could not help but check out the book every time grandma would change the page of the book, and as she was doing her best to look at the book, and not to look at grandma. Not more then 10 minutes into the book, she was more interested in the book, then being shy and finally turned her head to the front to see the book better, still being cautious of grandma but the book won out and she had to see what was going to happen.
What a girl! I’m so lucky to have her in my life!
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