Day 5

Today was a big day for breakthroughs. We're still keeping the cradle position for all bottle feedings. This has been completely voluntary on her part. Her cooperation in tummy crawling has been amazing. She hasn't been overly cooperative up until this point, not by being defiant, just ignoring. No one who has examined her or been with her has had any explanation for her not moving her body to music. She loves music and can pick out a song with just a couple of notes. She GETS music, but has never even tapped a foot to the beat. Today, her whole body was moving to a musical toy. I couldn't believe my eyes. Another first was pointing to an object in a book. I first heard her talking near her books, she was looking at a book that has a little bear that you take out and put it's PJ's on and brush it's teeth and put it to bed. She was saying bear, nite-nite as she was looking through the book. This is the first time that she related to the book with words. She then looked at a book with me and pointed to someone with a hat and said, "Hat". Then she pointed to a car and said, "Car". I always knew she knew what everything was called, but she never would point to anything if I asked. This was an exciting day.