One Smart Cookie

Bella had physical therapy this morning and was actually in a decent mood. Lately, she has been hating therapy! She tends to get really mad when anyone touches her or "makes" her do things.

We have been focusing almost all of our attention on standing (unassisted). She stands GREAT and has lots on stamina, when she is against something. She will stand by the couch or coffee table for really long periods of time and play with toys, but she will not [for the life of her] remove both hands. It is has become almost a joke. She has found a way to do everything and anything she needs to with one hand. Bella's progress has been at a stand still for a few months now so her therapist have been really thinking outside the box to try and get her to the next phase.

Working on sensory processing!

The frustrating part is that if she can stand for that long that against the coffee table, we know that she will be able to stand alone, she just refuses. She has this fear that we can not seem to get her to overcome.

We walked into therapy this morning and Mustafa, her PT, was telling me that him and Farida, Bella's OT, have been brainstorming ways to get both of Bella's hands free at the same time, when she is in a standing position. We literally tried EVERYTHING today with no success. The girl is smart, and on to all of our tactics.

Besides the fact that we could not get her to stand alone, she had a pretty good session. We did a lot of standing, a little bit of walking with the chair, some sit to stand exercises and we worked on some sensory stuff too!

Big girl! - trying to walk with the stool :)

We were also supposed to have developmental therapy today at home with Claudia, but she never showed up! I really liked Claudia the first time she was here, and Bella did very well with her but we have had to reschedule every session since then. We have been told pretty much every excuse in the book from her (always within the hour that she is supposed to show up) and now today she didn't call or answer when I called her 30 minutes after she was supposed to be here.

Needless to say, I called ECI and explained to them that with Bella's current therapy schedule, me working part time and Bella's doctor appointments, we don't have time to try and reschedule all of these sessions every time. They totally agreed that this was unacceptable and we are going to be re-assigned a new developmental therapist :-)

Hopefully we will have more luck this go around!

Worn Out!