First Steps

19 weeks old and McKenna took her first steps yesterday. Praise the Lord. Mommy of course was in tears at this huge milestone and smiling ear to ear. Wouldn't be surprised if my children suffer from long term hearing loss due to my shreaking screams of joy.

The First Steps Physical Therapist, who I think is the hardest working FS therapist out of the group, came in and we put her right to work, hardly even allowing her to sit down before flooding her with information on McKenna's progress during the last month. Long story short I went to kitchen to get Keaton milk and the therapist calmly but loudly said, "Mom you want to come in here! Really...You are going to miss this, get in here."

I ran in to see McKenna holding a ball popper sticker handle and pushing it, no support from the therapist, Tara, and no support through the ball popper. McKenna was smiling and when I started screaming cheers she started going faster and laughing and walking. I counted 8 steps, plus she took a few before I got in there. SO PROUD!

Of course all night I tried to get her to do it again and she refused. She made it into a game, falling down when trying to stand her up and laughing really hard. She can stand on her own, she can walk, she can move...she is just too afraid for some reason. She does great walking if she holds mommy's hand with her right hand and really doesn't even use the hand for anything more than comfort. So this is the next thing we are doingm building her confidance so she will actually do the walking and standing. Either way, she did it once so we know she CAN DO IT!