Monday October 16, 2006
If Zora’s feet are any indication, she might not stick around on the 3rd percentile. We got her first pair of shoes this week, after first getting her some socks and realizing she was never going to keep them on. I decided to get the 6-12 month Robeeze boots instead of the 0-6m ones, assuming I could make up the roominess with socks until she grew into them. Well, they fit. If she has any kind of a growth spurt we are going to have to buy her the next size because her toes are pretty close to the end already. They are the cutest little boots on her, and she really can’t kick them off. I am glad I went ahead and got them because it gets pretty cold in here in winter and I don’t have to worry about her little bitty toes getting too cold now.
Watching the Night of Too Many Stars benefit for autism on Comedy Central tonight I realized how lucky I am. Truly. It might be stressful and financially draining, but at least I do have some options for helping Zane. Some good options. Both the places he goes to for therapy are great, work together, but approach his education from slightly different, but complimentary angles. I don’t really have a lot of good to say about the public school system yet, but at least *right now* he has appropriate help. I worry about the future sometimes, but I know that God has made a way when there was no obvious way more times than I can count and I need to just continue to have faith and keep listening.
He doesn’t have very much spontaneous language yet, but I can say “yet” because it looks like it is coming. He doesn’t interact spontaneously very often, but we see sparks of it every once in a while (like this morning for a few minutes) and we are seeing those sparks every so often and at a gradually increasing rate. I can’t wait for the day that it isn’t so novel and exciting that I don’t blog about everything he says. I still wait for the day he says “I love you” with no prompting. At least I have hope of hearing it. So many parents don’t have that hope. I am very fortunate.
