Today Emily's OT focused on daily tasks like getting dressed. She did a great job of working with her OT to get dressed and ready for her day. These were some of the same skills we'd been working on at Kindred, so she'd already washed her face and brushed her teeth - by herself. Her second OT session was in the gym and they worked on sitting up straight using her core and raising her head and holding it up. She did great. The OT also spent some time stretching out her poor right arm and hand.

PT was spent mostly stretching and moving her legs, hips and ankles. Her right ankle is still really tight. The PT told me yesterday that they would be using a standing chair to work more on her ankles because bearing her own weight is the best way to get that right achilles stretched out. One cool thing in PT - Emily gets to run the lift that moves her from her wheel chair to the mat table. I'm sure that gives her a much better sense of control over the whole move process.

In ST the focus was on word recognition - following commands to touch her knee, ear, nose, hair and recognizing pictures based on the word. She's also been working a lot on thumbs up for yes and thumbs down for no. This afternoon her ST had her start making sounds.

Dr. Yarnell visited this afternoon and Emily said "hi." Once again she took his hand and gave him a thumbs up immediately when he asked. She also, finally, stuck out her tongue for (at) him. He's going to discuss reducing or eliminating some of her stimulant drugs with her Craig doc.

We have our conference with Dr. Weintraub tomorrow. It's probably too soon for the therapists to have a clear picture, but this will be his opportunity to tell us what he's seen in the various medical tests that have been done. He stopped by today to tell me not to stress out over this meeting - that it will be a good meeting.

Finally - for those of you who read the whole post - the biggest news of the day. When I was saying goodbye to Emily this afternoon so I could go get Hannah, she gave me a kiss. SHE GAVE ME A KISS!!!!!!! I called Uncle Gary the minute I got in the car and cried all the way to Good Shepherd.