Who is this kid?

Isaiah has made so much progress since we started early intervention.  It's just amazing seeing all the progress being made.  Just this week Isaiah has...

Started crawling on hands and knees with increased frequency.
-----He has been crawling off the belly for a couple weeks but it was rare to see, and usually just for a few 'steps'.  While he still crawls on the belly (army crawls) most of the time, we are seeing the hands and knees crawling several times a day, for a few feet at a time.  Amazing!

Said his first word!
-----He has been making the dada noise for a few months, but never in a meaningful way.  Yesterday Isaiah looked at Brandon and said "dada" while reaching out with a toy for Brandon to take.  He did this several times in a row, and then again all evening when Brandon was home from work.  Since Isaiah is at a 7-8 month overall level, we were not expecting him to say meaningful words until he reached a 10-12 month level.  So we are obviously thrilled :)  In addition to his first word, he is just babbling and jabbering so much more, and having more "conversations" with us.

EATING
-----While he suddenly improved with his chewing/swallowing skills right around Christmas he was still not eating much, and exhibiting some of the negative behaviors he has had since we started trying to feed him solids.  Now he is eating table foods really well, and doing better with opening his mouth for a spoon, and eating more pureed foods (same flavors and textures, but a larger quantity at once).  This morning he had 6oz of greek yogurt that was mixed with 1oz of a sweet potato/carrot puree and a tablespoon on whipping cream (for extra calories).  This is a huge difference from even a week ago when breakfast would be 2-3oz, and 4oz on a really good day.  Yesterday he had half of a PB&J sandwich for lunch and about a quarter cup of mac and cheese  for dinner (he also had a few bites of meatloaf and seemed to really like it, but he thought feeding that to Louie was much more fun than eating it).  I have also seen a bit of a decrease in the negative behaviors and more willingness to take bites of non preferred foods.  He still needs some work, but I'm starting to think the 3 week food therapy thing won't be needed if he continues to progress like he has been!

Trying really hard to pull up
-----I highly doubt he will be able to pull up in the coming weeks as he still needs to gain the muscle strength for it, but he is trying so hard!  He gets himself onto his knees and tries so hard to get up.  He has never showed any interest on getting up on his feet to stand before, so even if he doesn't get up to stand soon, just trying and showing interest is progress!  And while I would be shocked if he pulled up soon, he does have a tendency to surprise us ;)

That's all I can think of for now.  We still haven't gotten Isaiah's test results back, but some of the tests they did can take up to 10 days to get so hopefully we know by the end of the week but right now I'm just assuming no news is good news.