Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk

Sorry for no update in a while...

We're getting into the swing of spring, including Easter, yard work, church softball (Rob), soccer (Zach), Y-Guides Spring Outing weekend (Zach and Rob), and tennis (Rob). We also took sometime to visit Grandma Sandy in Las Vegas, including several days spent at Zion National Park. Checkout pictures here (baseball opening day and Spring Outing) and here (Zion).

Dustin is doing really well and our focus now is taking more steps walking and sign language - he now has a speech therapist (focused now on signing). Dustin now has feeding therapy (Mon), speech therapy (Tues), physical therapy (Weds), developmental therapy (Fri) and vision therapy (Fri). Whew - that's alot right! Thankfully everyone comes to our house except the feeding therapist as Lisa will go to Duke (about 20-25 min drive) for this. We are blessed to have all of this therapy available for Dustin!

Dustin has been taking 2-3 steps at a time for a few months now although he really prefers either the typical crawling motion or one best described as the "Mowgli"crawl from the Jungle Book movie. With either crawling motion he can really move! Of course he sees us walk and he really wants to walk too and continues to try and both increase his success and confidence. He's also getting into things so we have started the babyproofing. In the past week, his physical therapist has started working with him on stairs. We have to watch this one because we'll need to have all the gates up (can you say steeplechase) around the house before he reaches too much success on this one.

With signing, he is working on go, more, eat, and done. He is doing well with "more" but less so with the others...signing in the context of eating works best but other settings and situations are conducive. This is definitely a prayer request as we want to communicate with our little buddy!

All in all he is doing great! He is enjoying Spring as he can crawl around in the grass and enjoy his new swing which he really loves!

Zach is doing well and getting to the end of 1st grade - tennis starts next week and pretty soon it will be camp season! Zach is also very excited that we painted his room - he loves his new room.

Thanks for your prayers and love. Go Sox!