Her last easy day for a while

Maria was in quite a playful mood this morning. She managed to snatch the glasses off my head and bite down on them before I could react. The lens popped out and got scratched by her teeth, but I got the lens back in it looks like no serious harm done. She's lucky she's cute :) She also kept pulling the cat's tail (hard!) and the cat got annoyed but wouldn't move away. Cathy's cats are pretty mellow though so we're not (too) worried that they'll retaliate when she gets "friendly" like that.

Recently Maria has started struggling to get to things that are out of her reach. That's an important developmental milestone because it gives her incentive to crawl or walk. It also shows how much better her vision is getting. When we're outside I've seen her reach out toward the trees on the other side of the yard.

The music therapy seems to be helping. She continues to respond very strongly to the guitar, looking around for it and rolling over to be near it. She is also getting good at strumming it and today she beat a drum several times. Her motions are getting more deliberate and less "randomly flail about until I touch something". She's also looser and we are better able to move her limbs, for example to clap her hands during music.

She has a big week coming up. Tomorrow she gets her ankle braces, Monday she has her pre-op visit and an EEG (not related to the surgery just an inconvenient coincidence), Tuesday she sees the wacky voodoo doctor (the Qi Gong guy), Wednesday her chalazion surgery, and Thursday the wacky voodoo doctor again. Some of her therapies will be cancelled but others won't, so she's got a pretty full dance card.