October has been a fun month for Sophia. She went to two pumpkin farms, and went trick or treating at several different places not to mention that she finally got enrolled in the ESA's Early On program and has a new therapist who visits her once a week to assist us in getting Sophie to want to eat with her mouth. At this Point Sophia is still seeing a speech therapist as well. Her wonderful physical therapist has told us that she is releasing Sophia from therapy because Sophie is exactly where she needs to be with her gross motor skills. Of course if Sophie ever needs more assistance we can go back to her again. Sophie is rolling and scooting all over the living room. She also does this interesting pose where she lifts her back legs up and balances on her rib cage with her legs completely in the air. Its wild to see, the only thing I can really relate it to is break dancing or a pose that a gymnast would do on a balance beam. Sophia is moving forward on eating and has for the most part not thrown up as much as in the past months. She has whole days that she does not throw up. It seems that when she does get sick that is has to do with gas, we call them wet burps. The down side to them is that Liam seems to have a weaker gag reflex since Sophie throws up all of the time. When she gets sick, and he is close he now makes a gag sound and grabs his mouth like he is going to get sick too. I think that's why we call them wet burps...to try and get him to be OK with what is going on. While back in the RCNIC I had mentioned that it looked like Sophie was getting teeth. I think it might have appeared that way due to some of the medicines that she was on, and we have not seen any teeth since then until lately. She looks to be getting a lower tooth and that would explain why she puts everything in her mouth now. Oral aversion? I think not, or not anymore at least. Toys, her g-tube extension, the syringe that we put her food in, my fingers and her feet are just a few of the things that routinely can be found in her mouth. Sophie continues to grow. She is super tall standing towering above other babies at 28.5 inches and weighing almost 16 pounds. She definitely is going to be a show off too. When we put her in her Jessie the Cowgirl outfit she just smiled and it almost looked like she was doing a little strut in her duds.Health wise she is doing really well. We took her to the Developmental Assessment Center in Saginaw and they really did not have much to say other then keep up the good work. They mentioned that her fine motor skills could use a little more help, but in all reality what 7 month old doesn't need work on their fine motor skills? The real test of how she is doing will be what they say when we go back for our check up in Cincinnati Dec 1-4. We excitedly talk about the trip, hoping that Sophie and Liam will do good on the 6 hour trip down there.
