And just in the last few days (so this technically should be in a future 15 month update), Elodie finally figured out how to stand up from the middle of the floor with zero assistance. She gets into everything now. :)
She now understands how to take steps holding our hands, and she likes to use her push toy to walk across the living room. Her OT is predicting first steps by Thanksgiving! And speaking of OT, Elodie had her annual review for her early intervention services on the 21st of this month. She met both of her goals (tolerating a variety of textures orally, and crawling), and moving forward she will only have feeding goals (increasing variety of foods and eating more by mouth). The most amazing part of the evaluation is that she was found to be in the "typical or less than 25% delay" in all areas of development except expressive language, where she came out with an age equivalent of 8 months. She is definitely getting more expressive though, and she is using the word "yay!" with meaning. So there you have it, our happy little girl's first word is yay. So appropriate! I also have noticed that she seems to greet Brian with "da-eee," and she often approaches me with "mamama," so she might have those words as well. I have been working hard on her cognitive skills, and I feel like I've seen a lot of progress there. She knows how to push buttons to make toys work, she can stack the rings on her ring stacker, and she finally gets the concept of putting things in, rather than just dumping things out. Elodie has also started pointing at objects and usually accompanies her point with a "yuh!" It's fun to see her catch on to her world and take more and more of an interest in it.
The last big news from this month is Elodie's third tooth! A top tooth finally popped through the day she turned 14 months. That is five entire months since her bottom teeth poked through. I was starting to think she would only ever have two. The other top tooth should be making an appearance soon.
As for the month's activities, we enjoyed a couple of fall color walks, and went on our annual pumpkin patch outing. It was nearly 90 degrees the day we went, so we didn't stay too long. Elodie wasn't sure how she felt about it, but did cooperate for one nice picture with Noah and me. My mom also visited, and Elodie was a total cuddle bug with her for the whole weekend. It was adorable!
Finally, we saw the Stroke Clinic this month to reevaluate the blood clot Elodie was born with. She had to have a sedated MRI which is never fun, but the good news is the clot is still resolved and hasn't changed. The bad news is that they noticed an increase in the size of her ventricles. Her neurosurgeon was out of the office that week, so we have a follow up appointment on Thursday. Prayers and positive thoughts are appreciated.
Happy Fall everyone!
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