Well Rowan’s 2nd Christmas went VERY well, it was a VERY nice day!  On Christmas Eve a little family came over & I made some brownies & coffee, we let Anthony open 3 of his gifts, because he gets absolutely SPOILED at Christmas time because he has A LOT of family – he has Jeremy & I – My Parents – My Grandparents – My Aunts & Uncles, THEN HIS DADS side of the family.. So we figured 3 gifts to “make” his evening wouldn’t be any harm So it was really nice.

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Christmas Morning Rowie and I woke up & I showed her all of the presents under the tree, and put her in her seat where she can sit up and see, and she did surprisingly well at ripping open wrapping paper! The 1st two gifts she opened she got kind of “overwhelmed” she wanted to hold & play with both of them & was just going INSANE! In a good & cute way though (◕‿◕)  So we took a little time & just played with those couple toys for about 45minutes, b/c I didn’t want to REALLY overwhelm her & her have a “not so good”  idea of Christmas ya know? So by that time Jeremy had woken up & watched her and I open presents (Anthony had spent the night down at my parents several houses down the street where we met up with them all around 11am)  So after we got done opening all of the gifts, we got cleaned up & ready to go down to my parents where Anthony was, and also my dads mother(my grandmother).  So Rowan had several more gifts to open up down there, and then at 2pm we went up a block away to my Aunt & Uncles house where we met up with my Mom’s parents (my OTHER Grandparents) and their daughter(my cousin) & her husband, so Rowan had MORE gifts to open!  She got some really cute outfits from them, so not ALL toys, some really cute clothes as well  
But I think I can HONESTLY say, out of all of the toys that she DID get, it being a week later now, there is NOT EVEN ONE toy that she DOESN’T play with!! She loves them ALL!

There’s her toybox back in her bedroom (ofcourse) – then out in the living room I keep a big basket of her “most played with toys”, and ALL of her Christmas toys are in the basket!  She’s been having a ball!

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The week of New Years / this past week – she had several therapists come out, she had Kelly (Physical Therapist) on Monday where they did some stretching, crawling, sitting, standing, etc.  NO, we didn’t break any “records” but she’s still been having AWESOME PT sessions since we’ve had the two different PT’s. Made a lot more progress lately than ever. So thats great!  NORMALLY on Tuesday she would have had her OTHER PhysicalTherapist, Shari – but she’s out for several weeks due to a wrist surgery.  Wednesday we had Bill the Vision Therapist (AND the only person in the world that she’ll keep her glasses on for! ) So she had a nice session with him, and he always uses her toys to do “eye tracking” with, so he had a TON of new toys to use! & she did very well   Later Wednesday she had her Developmental Specialist Jen come over, Jen is kind of like a “baby teacher”.. she’s been trying to teach Rowan how to speak, and some basic “sign language” JUST INCASE she ends up not being able to speak… we just DON’T KNOW yet..?  It’s sad, I get teary eyed ☁♒ when I think about it, but it’s a reality I have to face.. the “just incases” of HOW Rowie’s life could possibly turn out.. SO, we DO work on basic Signing with her – we’ve shown her Mommy, Daddy, hungry, Thank you, more, play, stop, etc.. ya know, the basics.

Although she’s been making MAJOR “learning” progress w/ just Jeremy & I showing her things like “waving hello & goodbye” & “showing us where her hair is”, “showing us where her hands & feet are”.  I’ve been working with her every day on different body parts, she’s got the ones I just listed down GOOD, most recently we’ve been working on her “nose”.

** OMGoodness – I wasn’t even paying attention to the time! Today is Sunday and thats my “Bowling night!”  So I’ve gotta get ready to go & be there by 545pm now! But this WILL be continued either later on tonight, or tomorrow!  Thanks for reading! **

xo Andrea