Summer update

We've had a pretty eventful summer so far.  We've spent several hot days at the children's museum, taken trips to the zoo, swimming pool, a trip to Missouri, a few parades (which Noah was in with his tae kwon do school) and lots of therapy changes for Isaiah!  In May we added speech therapy to his IFSP, at the end of May we learned that Isaiah's service coordinator would be taking a leave for 4-5 months so we were temporarily assigned to another, and in mid June we learned that his teacher would be retiring at the end of the month.  We have not yet met with the substitute service coordinator, but we have met with his new teacher and we really like both her, and our new speech therapist.

Physical therapy is going well, Isaiah is using his walker really well, and actually enjoys using it which is exciting for us.  He hasn't made any huge improvements in the last few months, just perfecting what he's already doing.  He is cruising along the furniture, and crawling as quick as can be.  He has also started climbing onto the fireplace ledge, his rocking chair and other close to the ground obstacles.  Our hopes are that he will be able to stand unassisted, and maybe even taking a few steps on his own by his second birthday (which is only 4 months away!).

We've only had a few sessions with his speech therapy but he has been doing well so far.  He's a quiet kid, but he's making more sounds.  His meaningful words (used regularly) are 'Mama', 'Dada', and 'up'.  We have just started hearing him say 'thank you' fairly regularly as well.  He can't speak much, but when he does he's polite ;)  

Isaiah hasn't had feeding therapy since May but he will go back every day for a week in August to work through some of his troubles and have been documenting each time he chokes or gags to decide if he needs a swallow study done.

So that's about it!  Isaiah's next round of evaluations at the Center for Disabilities and Development is in about 6 weeks, and he sees the geneticist in November.