Monday, April 5, 2010

Easter fun

Ava had a wonderful day yesterday. I don't know if it was the extra dose of B12 I gave her or if it was that she was happy to see everybody. She is such a social butterfly at times. She was so excited she kept bouncing and squealing when she wanted to get picked up.
She had lots of pretty smiles for the day and I loved her energy. Ava is fixated with hair and when we want to make her happy we will lower our heads so that she can grab and play with it. So this weekend we put her on the grass and she went nuts grabbing at the grass and loving it. It must have reminded her of her favourite past time.

On a bad note, in the last two weeks we have noticed that her sitting is becoming less and less steady. She is starting to fall over a bit more often. The other thing is that her slouch is horrible. I am hoping that it is just because she is sitting for such long periods of time rather than it be degenerative.
The other thing is that this past four days her jerks have come back with a vengence. We did change quite a bit at once in her diet. Added coconut oil, canitor and increased calories and added branched chain amino acids. I may have to cut back on most and start again to figure it out. I hate seeing her have them now that I know what they are and how they effect her. Her dietitian isn't back in to work till the morning so I will have to call her then.

My developmental focus for this month will be to engage Ava. In whatever path she leads me to I hope to try to make a connection with her as often as I can throughout the day. It is good for both of us.

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