physical therapy

Man, do we miss Laurie. Still, we've done our best to work with Athan on his physical therapy during our time here in Clovis. We'll let you know what the professional thinks when we get to start his PT appointments again back in Wilmore, but until then here's my humble opinion:

He continues to make great progress holding his head up while sitting and on his tummy. He is also working harder at balancing himself when he's sitting up, doing more and more of the work himself. He can roll from his tummy to his back with very little effort, which is a blessing and curse. It is really tough to get any "tummy time" when he just rolls immediately over to his back and is reluctant to return! I think he CAN roll from his back to his tummy (he's done it twice that I've seen), but he is unmotivated. He just likes to be on his back more.

We're also trying to work with him to get him to do more with his arms. He is reaching for toys, passing them from hand to hand, and putting EVERYTHING in his mouth. :-) We're also trying to get him to offer more resistance with his arms. Just the past couple of days, he's shown us a little more "push." See?:

We'll stay on top of our workouts, and look forward to getting back home and get a more educated progress report!