Well my prediction came true! It was just a month ago, almost exactly that Ryder first got up on all fours and decided to make his first move towards crawling. He would take a couple strides with his arms while I moved his legs then fall to his belly. May not sound like much but we knew this was such a huge accomplishment. When we first showed his therapists they were blown away and almost in disbelief of what he was doing! I said give him a month and he'll be crawling all over the place. Everyday we worked on it and he got a little better each and every day. Pretty soon he was moving all on his own and you could tell in his eyes and giggle that he was SO proud of himself. Now I would say he crawls about 90% of the time. Rarely do we find him pulling himself along the floor and if we do we say "come on Ryder, crawl" and he pushes up and gets going again! With every new milestone he reaches it confirms my thoughts that "hey this kid is gonna be just fine!"
Here's a small clip of him in action :)
This one is just him playing but it shows how he's getting a lot of control.
Ryder has also been talking up a storm! Speech delay is very common with kids who have CP and a lot will never speak but luckily Ryder dodged that one. He is saying new words and sounds almost daily. Today he brought me over his shoes and said "Shoe shoe" then he went over to the closet and pulled on his jacket and said "coat". Haha think he was hinting much?! It was enough to impress me, so we went for a nice long walk. :) He's also putting words together like "more toast" or the other day he said "Dadda wuv you". He loves making animal sounds but sometimes he likes to pretend every animal is a horse. :) He also asks for help for almost everything and his new favorite word of course is "NO" lol oh well at least he's communicating!!
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