Whilst I’m having fun teaching Jessica all the irrelevant stuff (she kicks out on my command of “karate kick”, she lifts her arms up at “hands up”, she tilts her head upwards and roars at the call of “roar”, and she dutifully takes your hand and shakes at the command of “shake hands”), it is without a doubt the awesome kiddie physiotherapist Stephanie Halford from Et Al that is doing all the important movement stuff with our little girl.
The improvement in her abilities in terms of shifting weight, standing up and traversing from one object to another has been huge, and although her lower body is still not quite strong enough to just stand there on her own without any support, you just know that she’ll be walking in a month or two’s time (well, we’re kind of hoping anyway).
Then of course there is that very big psychological fear of walking unaided that seems to also be holding her back, but that I assume is a story for yet another specialist to tackle. Meanwhile I’ll continue to amuse myself by teaching her “judo chop”, never mind improving her artistic drawing skills now that I’ve purchased for her her very first set of jumbo crayons!
Anyway, here are a couple of snaps I managed to take during the last physio session with Stephanie, where as luck would have it, Chantelle was able to join Jessie and myself on account of her being booked off sick!
