I can't believe that Emma has been home for four months! We celebrated in Florida with Jake. Emma and Baba had so much fun together in the sun and sand.
Just some of Emma's great milestones:
Emma has completed physical therapy. She had physical therapy for a whopping six weeks. She will have a check up in three months to make sure she is continuing to progress.
Emma has grown a little over three inches and has gained four pounds since she has been home. We have had to buy a completely new wardrobe since she has outgrown everything. Luckily I don't buy her expensive clothes. But, I think she is about to have another growth spurt. All she has wanted to do the last few days is eat and sleep which is exactly what happened before her last growth spurt.
Emma started speech therapy two weeks ago. She is doing great and we have very high expectations since she did so well in physical therapy.
Since Emma turns three on May 20th, I met with the school district last week to see if we should write an Individual Education Plan for her. The Speech/Language Pathologist was impressed with her progress and concluded that she is a English Language Learner and does not have a speech delay. The school district Physical Therapist said that since Emma's private Physical Therapist says that Emma doesn't need therapy anymore she obviously doesn't qualify for the school district. We were given the option of having Emma be a "model" in the classroom. The school has a couple model students in each Early Childhood Special Education classroom to model for the children with special needs. This is a way that Emma can participate in preschool in a much more cost effective way and we can keep an eye on her proress. Now Emma just needs to be completely potty trained and her language needs to be closer to age appropriate. We have four months, so I am not too worried.
We feel so blessed to have Emma in our life. How could you not love this girl?
