Parker's Promise

A few things happened this week that took my breath away and I want to record. On Friday I was working with Parker on rolling. He rolled almost a full 360 on his own. He is getting so close!

The next was a few days later. Again we were working on rolling. He is getting really good at getting his left arm out when it is pinned under him. It is amazing the coordination it takes to lift or roll your body up a bit to get your arm unpinned and then to lift your arm out and up. This week was the very first time I saw him start to unpin his RIGHT arm!!! He did not get his hand out all the way, but he unpinned his arm!!! It was momentous. Trust me!

The last was today in therapy. He was working on walking in a Gate Trainer. It is this really cool walker with lots of support. We are working on getting one for home but the process takes several months. Anyway, today he was walking with a very smooth right left right left motion. His therapist was so excited and said if she could put smiley faces in his chart she would. She said it is huge because it shows that his right and left brain are communicating through the corpus callosum- the brain matter through which interhemispheric communication happens. She said it shows that neurons are firing on the left side of his brain and that the right brain is recognizing that and communicating. That is HUGE!!!!!