Progressing again!

After a few weeks without a whole lot of new going on, Isaiah has hit another spurt!  In the past week he has...

     -Said "mama" in a meaningful way!  I've been waiting a heck of a long time to hear him call me Mama and it's finally happened :)  That puts our meaningful word list at *Dada, Fish (though he hasn't said this one in a few weeks), Hi, and Mama!
     -Started crawling on hands and knees nearly 100% of the time!  He's been able to do this for maybe a month, but only a few feet at a time before getting back on the belly to crawl.  But now he's a crawling pro.
     -PULLING UP!  So exciting!
     -Crawling up stairs on his own!  Needless to say, we now need to keep the gate at the stairs closed at all times now!

I'm excited about his next round of evaluations to see how much progress has been made!  The goal is month to month progress (so in one month we want him to make one months progress...this would put him at a 12 month level when he is 18 months).  

General boring updates

Not a whole lot of new stuff going on with Isaiah.  I feel like right before 14 months Isaiah made huge progress over a few weeks, and now we're in a lull. Last week his teacher commented on how well his speech is.  He still has very few words (dada, fish, and hi) but he "talks" all the time, and his teacher noted how his babbling is starting to follow conversational patterns which is great!  He is now crawling on hands and knees about 75% of the time, when just last week I'd say he was belling crawling about 75% of the time, so that's also great.  It seems like at the moment he is working on perfecting the skills he acquired in the last month or two rather than working on new skills.  The physical therapist is having us work with him on the stairs (crawling up) in hopes that it will help build the strength he needs to get the hang of pulling up.

Isaiah also went in for a weight check on Friday and gained a whopping 1lb 5oz in just a month.  Obviously the calorie boosting table foods is going well for him!  We were concerned because the feeding, nutrition, and occupational therapists want him eating more formula and pureed food than table food, but Isaiah has his own plans and has been scarfing table foods and not eating much of anything else.  Of course, this is the goal for him, but calorie-wise he gets more from formula and pureed foods than table food, and at the moment calories is what he needs.  But now that he is back up to his 9 month weight, they will just monitor his weight gain closely in the next few months and as long as he is growing we will let him continue on as he wants to with the table food.  He also hasn't choked in a week or two which is awesome and huge process from just a few months ago when he was choking and gagging multiple times at each meal.  YAY!  So unless he has another food strike before then, we will take him back in to his regular pediatrician in a month to have him weighed.

Next week he has his teacher coming, physical therapy and we have another whole team IFSP meeting with the early access team to add more services to his IFSP (we just need to formally add nutritional services and discuss the CDD evaluations and recommendations).

In other news...I have a 3 year old in the house again :)  Eli celebrated his birthday on Saturday and we had a blast at his construction themed party.