Acquire, Day 2

Maddy started her regular therapy schedule today. Ms. Reggi and her friend Ms. Ashley arrived at 7:30 this morning and worked with Maddy for six straight hours. Maddy is handling it very well though. I'm so proud of how cooperative she's being. The therapists are amazing, and have more patience than I've ever seen. They're very demanding of Maddy, and require many repetitions of every task but I can already see that it's having results. Here's a video from this morning after only about 3 hours of therapy (total, yesterday and today):



Every part of the day is an opportunity, especially eating. Maddy is doing really well using a fork and spoon with her right hand as well as eating finger foods.


She's totally taking advantage of me by asking for far too many potato chips for lunch, knowing that I won't say no!

Ms. Reggi has tons of creative ideas for doing fun things that really get Maddy excited about using her right hand. Today, throwing bouncy balls in the bathtub was a huge hit. By the end of the day though, Maddy was pretty exhausted and was practically begging for a nap.

After her nap, we went to the mall and let her right the carousel for a treat.



It was a very successful day! Here's hoping tomorrow goes just as well!