Sitting Pretty :)

First I just want to give a shout out to everyone who has made donations so far! We have received almost $1400 in online donations!!! These donations are amazing and really do mean the world to us :)  Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU!! We also now have his account set up through TD Canada trust but it wont let me access it online at the moment. If anyone has made a donation there THANK YOU as well :)

Since we started the facebook event and blog to raise money for sending Ryder to Ability Camp, Ryder has been making huge steps in the right direction. I am not sure if it's him feeding off my excitement and energy or just a coincidence but whatever is going on is definitely working!! It's almost been a full month since Ryder's last Physio/Occupational therapy appointment. With it being summer and everyone's vacations they had a hard time fitting him in. I was really worried about how his progress would be during this time without any therapy. Luckily for us what we have been doing at home seems to be working. This makes me so excited to think about how much progress he could make at Ability camp!!

The last few days Ryder has been pulling himself up onto anything he can. It's awesome but so scary at the same time. Once he's up he has no balance so he comes crashing down, FAST! I think we may need to invest in a helmet pretty soon here.... Two days ago I came into his room after his nap to see this:

                        I guess it's time to raise those rails :)

Then the next night in the bath he decided to pull himself onto his knee's and play holding onto his corner tub basket for the rest of the time. Now there's no keeping him laying down, he just wants to play upright. I don't blame him one bit! He's also been talking up a storm and trying new words on a daily basis. His latest thing to say is "Car vroom vroom" when he's playing with a car or he see's one. (Was really cute when he spotted them on his jams tonight :) ) He said "Hannah" (his little girl friend) just the other day and now says "NANA" whenever we get somewhere and he's excited. I think he think's Hannah will be wherever we go. He's starting to say "thank you" without being asked and will call out "momma" whenever I am out of his sight. He has started to wave on a more regular basis to people walking by or when someone is leaving and tonight he decided to blow his Nanny and Grampy kisses good night. It's all these what may seem to be "little" things that usually keep me going but today he did something HUGE and I still can not stop smiling!!!

                   

Ryder decided to sit and play for what felt like FOREVER before toppling over. As long as he was concentrating and playing in the sand he stayed sitting upright!! :)  This was the longest he's ever sat before and it was for probably around 10 minutes or so! I love how he's filling his tiny little dump truck up with sand!

After playing in the sand he decided it was a good time to go for a swim. Obviously Ryder didn't care he wasn't wearing his swim suit or that his poor mommy is afraid of the creepy crawlers in lake water! Like usual there was no stopping this kid from going where he wanted!! So off in the lake we went! We had fun, and a nice long bath when we got home :)