Here are Morgan and Quinn talking and loving each other up.
These next couple pictures are out at the farm after we fed a couple baby cows, Kristin and Karissa were so much fun to be with. Wow, Karissa was so wonderful with Quinn.
Sadly here is our last official visit with Jen, I am sure thankful for all her help with Quinn, and I sure hope we stay in touch and that maybe she will be assigned at a school Quinn goes to in the future. She is an amazing Physical Therapist. We have been so lucky with all the people working with Quinn.
Here is a bad phone picture at the County fair with Lynn, Lucas, Kathy,Quinn, and I, where Quinn and Lucas loved the animals.
Wow it’s been a busy week and we am tired! So hopefully this makes sense.
We started off the weekend visiting the Norfolk area, where we played with friends and visited Grandma Vicki and Grandpa Steve. We got to watch a deer and her two babies run all over the yard. I saw them and carefully picked Quinn up to get her over to the window, and it always takes her a bit to focus to see what is going on and I was hoping they would not run off before Quinn could focus in and see them, and we got to watch them for a good 20 minutes, it was amazing! Those babies were running and jumping all over, and wow, they can move. Quinn was turning her head to watch them, so I knew she was watching them. We followed that up by getting to feed some calves, and it was hot by then and I was not sure if Quinn was really paying attention or if she was in her own world, at that time. Hours later when she was with Grandma Vicki, she started mooing, so that was good to hear. She is such a stinker, sometimes I’m not sure if she is really paying attention or not, but wow does she ever pay attention, even when I’m not sure if she is. Yeah Quinn!
We also got to hang out with family, which is always a wonderful thing. We got to spend time with Morgan, Paige, Riley, Tom, and Alex. Quinn tends to not do much talking when she is around people she does not know, but as she was hanging out with Morgan, who had to have told her she loved her, 20 times, Quinn looked at Morgan and said “I love you, Morgan.” Plain as day. I had to let Morgan know what a big deal that is, because she does not talk to very many people, so that was wonderful!
Goodness, she did well at therapy this week, even though she has a bit of a cold. We started off going to see Suzanne and Stacie, and while we were waiting to get in, Diane walked out to meet a different kiddo, but Quinn wanted to talk to Diane, so she started babbling and getting loud to get her attention, Diane stopped to tell Quinn hello, and then turned back around to talk to her student, and Quinn was not done talking, so she lurched out of grandma’s arms to rest her head on Diane, so Diane was super sweet and loved up on Quinn a bit, and then Quinn was happy and I just sat there in awe of Quinn, recognizing Diane, and not wanting to be done getting her message across until she had some loving! Way to go again Quinn.
Quinn has had a couple of little marks on her left foot lately, and so we have not been wearing her “magic” shoes. I’ve come to find out the marks are not from her shoes, they are from the way she rubs her foot on her wheelchair, and so her shoes are going to help her not make that mark, but we have that fixed too thanks to Chrissy and the guys at Hangers. Well, when we were in therapy, Suzanne asked Quinn if her foot hurt? Quinn said “yes” in this pitiful tone, with a pout on her lips, making her look so sad, and so Suzanne gave Quinn extra attention and Quinn was eating it up. So I asked Quinn, does your knee hurt? “Yes” was her reply, So does your elbow hurt? “Yes”, does your nose hurt? “yes”, so I think all in all she is just fine! Wow, is she ever figuring out how to get the attention she so desperately wants!
We also hit the county fair the other day where she had fun watching and listening to the chickens, and today we met up and talked to our architect more about the house we might be building. So we are still asking for prayers for this one to sell. Wow, are there ever a lot of great people out there.
We also got our first call from Lincoln Public Schools, the nutritionist called to talk to me about feedings with her. We don’t think she will need to do a feeding at school, but we did talk about her eating orally when they try different things out here and there. It was such a positive call, wanting to make sure she is included in every experience, and I hung up even more excited for her school experience. We are going to have a great year!
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