During OT today, we tried some art therapy... Will was more interested in tasting the paint brushes. By the way, last week, during OT, we learned that Will is at the level of a typical 15 month old in fine motor skills! (He is 14 months old!) He has also mastered every single goal we set for this quarter! Yea, Will!!!
Lately, Will loves to take everything out of his toy box. He even climbs in it to get the smallest of toys hiding on the bottom. He then enjoys putting everything (or at least most things) back in. Thanks to Honey & G-Dad for the shopping cart. It is the perfect height for practicing walking with zancos on & Will can actually go pretty fast! I had a hard time getting him to go quickly or very far in these videos but you get the idea!
2 thoughts:
Hey, Katie. I have so enjoyed getting to know you through your blog. I was just reading your latest entry regarding 'did you do anything (even unknowingly) to cause Will's syndrome'. I have not had to deal with anything like you and Regan have with my children, but something did strike a chord with me and I thought I would share. My husband was diagnosed at 39 with a non-smoking lung cancer that most often strikes 60+ year olds. This scenario is apparently very rare - a young person with an old person's cancer. He lived one year from diagnosis. As his cancer progressed to his brain, the steroids he was treated with masked an infection and 5 days after some strange symptoms started, he was dead. I racked my brain with how I could have done those days different and, talk about blaming myself. He went into the hospital on a Monday in very bad shape and died Tues at 5am. The kids (10 and 3) did not officially get to say goodbye. Something else to regret. Well anyway, I expected the 'what ifs' within the first 6 months to a year. I was totally unprepared for what happened 3 years later. I was at an MBC Women's retreat and the speaker was detailing her own husband's death and how she kept him alive until their kid's could get there. She was an older woman with grown children. Well, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I was a terrible mom, what was I thinking not to have put him on life support so at least the kids could officially say 'goodbye'. Well I lost it and was a crying, snotty mess for the next 3 days. All of this is to say that I think what you said later in the blog is very true. We are not in control and it is up to us to do the best we know at the time and be thankful in all things drawing closer to God and trusting him even though we cannot connect the dots in any given situation. It has been almost 12 years since his death and even though I have been happily remarried for 6 of those, the thoughts still can sneak up on me that I should have done something different so that the kids had their dad longer or at least got to say goodbye. So yea! that you know so much sooner than I did that our minds run away with us as if we are always able to affect a situation. And knowing that is the power to overcome as you have, to choose to change those thoughts to thankful (and trusting) toward God for Will and the gift you have in him.
Precious Will and your curly hair! Your walking is awesome man. I have no doubt you will even be running in no time.
You certainly are a go getter and have an amazing mama to be your #1 cheerleader...so proud you ...oh how I wish we could play daily together.
love ya'll- E & W
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