This is the story of my daughter Oliana who was born blind. To read her complete story start with the blog titled Oli's birth. You can email me at shannongardner@live.com




Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Oliana's starting to crawl!!

Oliana is finally starting crawl. Not in the traditional sense, but hey, she gets around. She puts her hands way out in front of her and kind of scoots her knees. She rolls around too. She's finally learning where her toys are in the living room and actually going and trying to find them. She is also pulling herself all the way up to her knees without sitting her butt on her heels. We're so proud of her.
She had her first occupational therapy appointment last week. OT is more refined movement and fine motor control. Like picking things up with her fingers and things. She's doing really well with that too. She can feed herself now. We're starting to work with her on using a spoon. She doesn't quite get it yet. We learned that she needs more stimulis and tactile input because she doesn't have her sight. We stuck all kinds of fabric and braille numbers and letters to her toys. We also made boards of fabric, sandpaper, and astroturf for her to feel and walk on. She really likes it. I found out why she is still drooling too. She has floppy muscles, her arms and legs(which we already knew), and also her oral muscles. We're working on that with her too. Cold compresses to her face, teething rings, massage, ect....

Kekoa is a typical 3 year old. Getting into everything he's not supposed to. He's too smart for his own good sometimes. He's a good kid and is more and more involved with his sister. He knows all his colors, ABC's, and can count to 30. His vocabulary astounds me sometimes. He says the funniest things!! He even makes up his own words and is very imaginative. Pretending he has toys and presents and handing up imaginary things to play with. It's quite funny.

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