Walk This Way

Dustin's physical therapist came this week and said that he is very close to walking. Despite the fact that Down kids deal with hypotonia, or low muscle tone, walking at this time (16-18 months) would be roughly in line with other kids who don't have this issue. Praise! We are very thankful for the work of our physical therapist (TR), as we are for all of the therapists that we work with - developmental (Courtney), vision (Dana), and feeding (Jodi).

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Last Man Standing

No new update from the ENT to determine the extent to which the removal of the adenoids improved Dustin's breathing. He still snores somewhat...although his feeding therapist has indicated that she can hear the difference. Only for the trained ear we suppose...All in all Dustin is doing great as are all of us. We've all had colds to a certain degree but no one was taken down for the count and no one has had H1N1 - praise. Halloween was good fun - Zach was Scooby Doo (or should we say "Rooby"?), and Dustin was an otter. It was nearly 70 degrees here and both we're covered from head to toe in their costumes...needless to say both got very hot. Not enough to stop going out for candy of course!

Only other thing to note is how well Dustin is doing sitting up and standing - he is holding on but able to stand. Now this is his favorite position...although he is still doing his army crawl around the house...which we are thankful for because he is cleaning the floor for us in the absence of our own efforts (kinda sad).

We are of course saddened by the Yankees win...feel free to gloat you Yankee fans....we've moved on to college football and the bowl prospects for both Cal and TCU.

P.S. No new pictures to report - we have them just not posted to our Picasa account.