Today I got loads of ideas, thank you @squish_space.
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For the first time Coraline got a bit overtired with not sleeping in the heat and we all learned lessons!
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Back home in the park
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We have had the best two years with you!
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“Early intervention”! I am not sure I knew this term before we had Coraline. It's such a familiar term now.
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“This time two years ago we didn’t know what to expect, just that you’d be a lovely girl. And you are a lovely girl. More lovely than we could ever have imagined.”
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To build on copying the sounds Coraline makes, which I wrote about yesterday, I learned at the talk I went to that we can expand a sound she can make.
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I now copy whatever Coraline does in terms of her sounds.
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Kevin has high expectations of what she’ll eat (this week it’s various things + sorrel!)
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Coraline at twenty three months old
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We are now working on how to get down from and out of something backwards (instead of forwards).
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We have seen huge progress in this the past month, with Coraline climbing right over our legs and pulling herself up a lot. She can even crawl up a step on her own now. It’s good to capture what she’s up to now at 22 months.
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The Down’s Syndrome Association course was on Early Development, run by the Services Director. It was all about how children with Down’s Syndrome learn, and language and communication.
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After six months or so of persuasion, I convinced Kevin to agree to Coraline getting the tiniest of trims!
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I had changed because of our journey, and I had an inner stillness.
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Coraline has gently begun multi-room crawling over the past few days
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We went and looked at her sleeping and looked at how rich our lives are since Coraline has arrived.
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Coraline with our neighbour Margaret, at soft play this afternoon. They are so happy together!
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Coraline is nineteen months old. Babies with Down’s Syndrome expect to get teeth through between the ages of one to two years old. For typical babies it’s from six months old and usually in a certain order (generally bottom central incisors first).
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As it is World Down Syndrome Day next Thursday 21st March, the Down’s Syndrome Association asked me to write a piece for them about people and their response to finding out a baby has Down's Syndrome: us, our family, and our friends.
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