Discharged!

Today we got a surprise when we got to therapy. I guess Samuel did even better on his latest evaluation then I originally thought. So today he was semi discharged from PT. Karen (PT) wants to check in on him each month to make sure his range of motion in his leg/foot is still where it needs to be but no "real" therapy. Karen said that we can always pick therapy up if we feel like he needs more help then we can give him.

Today Karen told me that according to Samuel's last evaluation he was just a few months behind on his locomotion skills (JUMPING mainly is holding this score down) and 2 MONTHS AHEAD on his stability skills. I was of course pleasantly surprised to hear how great he is doing. She told us to continue working on jumping and to work up to not holding onto to the railing as he is walking up and down the stairs. The other crazy thing she said was that in four months he has made a year progress. She said that she hadn't taught him how to do these things and I said we hadn't taught him. Samuel wants to be big like Joseph and that has really been the best therapy for him. But also he is adventurous, BUSY, and fearless. He sees one of the big kids doing something and he just thinks he should be able to do it too.

I chose this picture because it really shows how far we have come. This was taken when he just turned one, we had to help him stand up to the table. He hadn't even started hands and knees crawling 100% of the time yet and now 14 months later he is pretty much AT AGE LEVEL and discharged from PT! Just amazing to me.