IFSP

Today was nuts! Addy had speech therapy at 8:15, physical therapy at 9:30, and her annual IFSP meeting at 10:00. During that time I also had Jarika's cheerleading coach (who happens to be our neighbor and is going to be Cooper's fifth grade teacher) over for a visit about Jarika. Busy morning! I promised her that it usually isn't quite that crazy! It just was an overlapping morning! Addy had met all of her goals on her previous IFSP with the exception of crawling! She mastered having a spoon go past her lips, take at least three bites per meal, increase signs to at least 10 (I lost track at 20, I'm pretty stoked about that!), isolates finger to push a button, can stand with support, assists in dressing, identifies at least 3 body parts (she knows feet, toes, hands, arm, leg, nose, eyes, mouth, tongue, and tummy), and there were a couple of more but I can't remember them. I am very pleased with her progress, she has really blossomed this summer too. Especially with her signing, she picks up a new sign just about daily right now and is carrying them over! Today she picked up "pig" and "go"!
I don't reveal a whole lot of Jarika's issues she is dealing with but she is really struggling with panic attacks right now. It breaks my heart to see her suffer, it's horrible. She drove to Joplin yesterday (about and hour and a half away) all by herself. I was so proud of her! She did great! Until she started home today. Poor thing got lost and totally freaked out. It was awful. Fortunately the cousin of the person she stayed with (who is also a friend) was able to get off of work and found her and led her to the interstate, thank you Evan! So she made it home, but it definitely was not an easy trip. Please pray for her, we have a really good book that she is reading now about panic and I'm really hoping that we will see improvement soon, this is so hard on her!
Avery's ball game was cancelled tonight due to rain, again! We've had rain a lot lately, which is a good thing, but it may rain tomorrow during the big Extreme Homemakeover reveal. We may still go to the MOVE THAT BUS ceremony, Ashley Tisdale is performing a free concert. I know my nieces will love that! I'm sure Cooper and Avery would enjoy it too, just not so much in the rain! Here's Ty serenading Ashley today at the site. No this isn't my pic I stole it from a Facebook Friend! She's been there working every day!