New videos

I uploaded four new videos to Maria's page.

One more thing that we forgot to mention about Friday is that her hearing threshold is also lower, meaning her ears are responding to fainter sounds. Before her threshold was around 60 decibels which is about the level of normal conversation. Now it's in the 40-50 range.

We talked to the physical therapist yesterday about the developmental evaluation. She agrees that sitting is important so we're going to focus on that, though we are still going to work on all the other many, many things. She thinks that ankle braces are premature (we agree).

Maria continues to be fiercly independent about feeding herself. Yesterday we got a good rhythm going. She'd reach out and I'd put the loaded spoon in her hand (I'm not making her look for the spoon at this point). She'd put the spoon right into her mouth, clamp down on it, then take her hand away. I'd take the spoon out, load it up again, and we'd repeat. She's learning not to keep holding the spoon and not to bite down so hard we can't get it out. I have to slow her down because she wants to shovel the food in faster than she can swallow it!