Nope, I didn’t forget the 26 pic. It just took me a few days longer to post it.

My baby on her first sweet sixteen:

It is getting really hard to get a good 26 shot of her now. She’s moving all the time. So from now the 26 shots will be more of the “action” variety, I think. I got lucky on this one.

The trip to Belgium should be interesting. The trip from China with her I anticipated would be bad, but it wasn’t at all. Sophie cried once for like three minutes. The rest of the 24 hour trip she was fine. (Amazing, if you think about it). But she’s older now and won’t stand to be confined to one area, so I expect we’ll be making friends with lots of the other passengers on the plane. We’re going to ask for the bulkhead seats. I hope we get them.

Here’s why I’m the luckiest mama in the whole world. Every morning I get to greet this smiling face (with lion and blanket, her “woobies” and hella lot of teefers!)

She’s been released from PT (No doubt, geeze!) and soon will be released from OT, I think. Her sensory disorder is GONE. She has no more symptoms at all. She never does the bearing down and shaking thing. She doesn’t hit her head when she’s upset anymore (she would do this with her palm, not against the wall or anything) and will touch/play with anything. Eating is no longer an issue like it was before. Now any texture is okay with her.

The sensory thing was why i wanted her in the program to begin with. Now that it’s cleared up, it’s probably time to move her on. The OT is hanging on a bit I think because she likes Sophie (Hey, who wouldn’t? *g*) but she’s talking about releasing her within the next couple of months.

Sophie’s cut two incisors completely and is working on more. Solids are not a problem for her at all and she LOVES Goldfish and graham crackers. If I say, “Sophie, do you want a cookie?” she’ll toddle over to the cabinet where I keep the graham crackers and open it up. ;)

Still not talking much (she’s babbling a lot), but I know that will come in time. She loves to sing. If I sing to her, she’ll sing back in baby talk. She seems to have a preference for music in general.