So last night we had horses. Ayden Jane was awesome. There is another little boy in the class, J, who Ayden Jane really likes. J is an adorable boy who is a bit older and does some pretty cool things on his horse. AJ sees J doing something, she has to do it! It is good because the things that J is working on are very similar to AJ and he is a bit more capable so AJ really pushes to do what J can do. She worked so hard and was so proud of herself.
Today, came PT. I was expecting that the trip would require at least one PT session to be devoted to 'fixing' the car seat trauma. Instead, Ayden Jane did great! She still attempts to rotate a bit, but she was doing some great work. After some good gross motor work Jen really got down to some fine motor stuff. Basically, strengthening those fingers to get writing. It was very cool. Jen taped her last 3 fingers down so that AJ had to really work the index finger in the position Jen wanted. They did patterns with clothes pins and then Jen transferred it to using a marker. Once she freed the middle finger for a bit of added support, Ayden Jane was doing pretty well with her grip writing. It was some good hope for me as I have seen AJ really shy away from writing.
So, I think the wild spurt has ended (2 weeks once again) and it looks like Ayden Jane is ready to learn volumes. I am not sure what was connecting, but it seems like a very age appropriate developmental leap. Hard to say, but language has improved in her ability to really converse back and forth about a topic. Also, her interest in reading and writing has jumped. She seems to be able to more smoothly connect skills as well, for example, she can steer around anything now when riding her bike and carry on a conversation at the same time. In the past 2 weeks she has improved in her swimming to where she is now swimming across the pool, doing handstands on the bottom like Mckenna and is even trying to do strokes.
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