Something new

With a lot of help, here is Krassi sitting in the chair. He'd been climbing up into a friend's lap during our Bible study, and after they left, he wanted to do it himself!

It's not very evident from this angle, but sitting up is really not something this boy can do. His upper body core is so weak - he's compensated for so long with his arms (which are rock solid, despite being small) that his core doesn't really know what to do with itself, and within a very short period of time he just crumples forward until he can rest his head on his knees.

Tomorrow he starts occupational therapy at the World's Best Children's Therapy Center. ;) (This is in addition to his physical therapy and speech/feeding therapy.) Amazingly, the schedulers there have managed to get schedules arranged such that he can get an hour time slot with a therapist on both of the mornings that we're already there during the time that we already have to be there for Reuben, so now both boys will have 2.5 hours of therapies over the same 2.5 hour period so it won't take up any more of our day than therapy trips already do. Yay!

Working with him on the skill of sitting using his upper body is one of his primary goals because doing this will free his hands up for so many things - signing, playing, eventually self-feeding, besides just all of the benefits of being upright. We're excited for him.