pipture catch up. it's been a few.
Friday, September 25, 2009 posted by Reagan at 4:09 PM
i realized that i have had several piper-less posts. so here is one that you will find very pippy-filled.
piper jane loves the vols. she also loves the utes. we'll wait til she can talk to tell us which she likes better.
she was very sleepy this day. it was fun to just relax.
piper jane loves the vols. she also loves the utes. we'll wait til she can talk to tell us which she likes better.
she was very sleepy this day. it was fun to just relax.
standing therapy. can any of you believe it that my piper will be walking some day? i think soon. also, old man shoe alert (and ankle brace)!
in her head, piper jane is thinking 'i'd like to see my mama stop me from chewing on my pulse/ox when she's got that camera in her hands.' can you believe my saucy minx of a babe?
this picture is quite old. before she got that nasty cold even. my friend stacey bought pipster j this skirt. i would like to be more like stacey. you know, go around thinking about doing nice things for others. i mostly like doing nice things for myself. but i'm learning.
today we had music therapy. i've never been able to see it! it warmed my heart to see the woman come in with her guitar and how the kids reacted. she goes around the room and sings a song for each child. they strum the strings along with her. it's very sweet. when she was coming over to pip (who was in my lap) i was getting curious as to how pip would respond. she knew exactly what to do and started banging on the guitar and strumming the strings just like all the other kids. then she looked back at me with a big grin as if to get my approval. or possibly to make sure i was seeing how musical she is. melt!
since piper's house has been blythedale for over a year, it is easy to get really tired of the routine...plus, not to mention, bored. thankfully there are days like today that help spice things up.
Labels: piper jane, Piper loves her mama, therapy
good news, good news, party time, excellent....
Friday, July 17, 2009 posted by Reagan at 2:41 PM
first comes the good news. starting in august, i will only be working half days on tuesdays....so i can see piper one more day a week. this is huge news. i have been working on this for over a month and i wasn't sure it would work out. i am thrilled. piper is too.
today i was shocked at piper's size. she is looking more and more like a little girl, and less like the little nubbins i once had to dress in micro-premie duds. it was only 6 months ago that she started sitting up and was so toppley. now she sits perfectly without even a wiggle, and she can stand!
today i was shocked at piper's size. she is looking more and more like a little girl, and less like the little nubbins i once had to dress in micro-premie duds. it was only 6 months ago that she started sitting up and was so toppley. now she sits perfectly without even a wiggle, and she can stand!
little birdie has recently discovered kicking up her dogs and lounging back. she will lay back like this (hair flowing beneath her), look up at the ceiling and tap something gently. i like to picture what she is thinking about. 'how many things can one pip tap in a day? why does marcus kick his bed so hard? what happened to my sleeping beauty dvd? is my dad ever going to let my mama buy those black heels she wants?'
next up. suh-weet therapy sesh today. Karen swears piper performs best when i'm around. she wants to impress me, i guess.
excuse me for basically falling to pieces over these old man shoes. click any of the pictures below to see them big. i wish so badly i could take credit for them, but they were bought for her by blythedale therapy. they are more than a few sizes too big because they need to fit her splints inside (splints are covered by trousers).
such a big girl.
ok, again with the old man stuff. but seriously, all she is missing to become my pah-pah joe is a sunday paper and a pipe. her long-ness and lean-ness is a little more grandpa miles, in which case we swap the pipe with a gardening tool.
i am so proud of this girl. also, in a room of therapists, a few doctors and her nurse, it was clear that piper strongly preferred my company to theirs. booya! excuse me while i go gloat for ten years.ps pipsey got a new cousin yesterday. asher wallace, hooray!
Labels: piper jane, Piper loves her mama, therapy
our first weekend of spring
Sunday, March 22, 2009 posted by Reagan at 9:23 PM
A lot of you have been interested in Piper Jane's standing therapy and I was finally able to sit in and observe. They are doing it facing this way now, which I think she likes since she is able to get a little work done with the desk in front of her.
notice her tiny feet above. oh how I love!
Piper has a hard time concentrating on anything when my blackberry is around. Oh, and that is her in her amazing scoli jacket. It is working miracles!
Crawling around. She never gives up, even though she gets so incredibly twisted in her trach tubes. I'm not sure what her plans were with the charger to her dvd player.
It seems like Piper likes me lately. Maybe I'm not just another person to kick.
When it comes to buying baby shoes, I seem to have little self control.
Labels: monkey frog, piper jane, standing board, therapy
