15 Month Check Up

This week Elizabeth had her 15 month check up. 15 Months people!!!! Our little miracle weighed in at a whopping 19.2 lbs and 28" long! She officially made it on the typical growth chart! She is in the 5th percentile! At 12 months she wasn't even on the chart! I was very proud of her physical growth as well as her developmental growth!!

Rewind 3 months ago... Elizabeth was just starting to eat baby food. Still not a whole lot mostly "tasting." A few bites here or there not much. And if she did take it she refused to swallow. She thrust it out with her tongue. She refused to use her legs. She kept them curled to her at all times. She had just learned to sit up and was still not 100% to intentional grabbing. She had made no effort to form a crawl she was simply satisfied with rolling.

Jumping forward:

Elizabeth at 15 months can do all the things she COULDN'T do! She is eating whatever you put on her plate! Sometimes I have to take the food away (okay all days! 😄). We are also talking of taking some of the day time tube feeds away and cutting calories again . He chews and swallows like a champ! She loves her bouncer!!! She can bounce to "THe Hotdog Dance" like a champ! She will sit on my leg and hold on to the coffee table and pull herself up! She is learning how to "rake" food up with her hands! Her inentional grabbing has been pretty well perfected. She will stand needing minimal support of her hips! She is putting together a "crawl" aka inchworm/army/waddle crawl! Slow and steady but it's movement! 

This doctors appointment wa the first doctors appointment we went to that he had more things that she was doing than she wasn't! Her pediatrician looked at me and said " There is no way I can walk out of this room and not say WOW, just wow!" I was beaming. 

I was proud that Elizabeth is so determined. Proud of the family support we have. Proud God chose us. Proud that her daddy works hard abd provides the best care for her. Proud that God has worked miracles in our life! 

My life is feeling more "typical" than I could have imagined! I was recently encouraged after meeting a sweet teenager with Downs that had a "girls day " with her mom. More proof that salon and mani/pedi days are going to be apart of our lives. I was always terrified i'd never experience those with Elizabeth and now I see how  Typical she is not how limited! 

God has given us a true gift. We have learned to be thankful for things we never realized we should be thankful for. We now appreciate how complex and intricate chewing and swallowing a piece of food. We know and sympathies the struggle that it takes for your child to push themselves up with their arms. We are blessed an I refuse to elieve or accept any other frame of thinking! 

             (At Physical Therapy)