Update on Hailey

Hailey has been making leaps and bounds lately! The last few times I have come into her room to get her up, she has been sitting up in her crib, woo hoo! Hailey is 15 months and has always been a little behind in her development. I wasn't too worried until the last couple months. After she turned one, I was thinking, gosh, Hailey still isn't pulling herself from a laying position to sitting. She should be doing this by now! I mentioned it to her pediatrician and he hooked me up with the up to 3 or Early Intervention program. I am so grateful for all of their help! They had a physical therapist, nutritionists, the works come to evaluate Hailey. So what they came up with is: 1-she has a little bit of low muscle tone, which causes children to take a little longer to do physical things, nothing major though 2-she is a very mellow, laid back girl, just not in a hurry 3-she is also a very picky eater and does not like anything with texture. They say as she starts to be more active physically that will go hand in hand with her eating, and willingness to try new things. They put her Self-Help skills at 4 months since she is not feeding herself at all, and her physical motor skills at 9 months. We have some work to do, but just the last couple weeks she has progressed quite a bit. She is starting to pull herself up to sitting and standing positions, and getting more stable when we help her walk. The Physical Therapist has been great to give me some ideas and pointers to get her moving and to work on strenghthening her muscles. He will be coming every two weeks to help her along this process. The nutritionist will come once a month to help us get on track with her eating and self-help skills. It is comforting to know that there are no major problems and she should be catching up very soon! I am so glad that there are such great programs out there!

Hailey loves our kitty and is constantly scooting on her bum to try and keep up with her. We can now sit her on the kitty condo and she can pull herself up to pet her. Watch out Shelby! Hailey is also saying several more words like "moo", and "vroom". She's such a fun sweet girl!