Continued Progress...

We have had a busy month, that’s for sure. Wyatt started out the month sick, then had surgery, followed by an UTI, and now he’s gearing up for his hearing aid consult. In between all that, we found time to hang out with friends, go to the zoo, hit up some doctors appointments, and continued therapy appointments. 

{Big boy getting ready to see the animals! Enjoying the breeze from his stroller fan, while “waving” to his fans.}

Wyatt got to see the penguins, an elephant, the giraffe, and some flamingoes. We told him all about how special flamingoes are to mom and dad, since we were married at the Flamingo in Las Vegas. 

{Posing with Mom and dad by the flamingoes. Wyatt is more interested in the fan than taking a photo.}

Wyatt spent a good portion of last week sick following his UTI, but he seems to be on the mend. We followed up with urology following his surgery and everything appears to be healing well. We even got the all clear to come back in a year, rather than every 6 months. His doctor gave him a stern lecture about actually making it 365 days before seeing him. Let’s hope he listens to the doctor, since he doesn’t like to listen to his mama.

 {Wyatt snuggled with mommy. Notice his crazy hair!}

Wyatt has been showing an increased interest in food and things in/near his mouth. He’s been cleared for puréed foods for a while, but we were trying to keep him healthy for surgery so we backed off the foods for a while. We are back to playing and exploring (and eating!) foods again. He will have a swallow study soon, which will give us more information about what foods he can safely eat. He’s starting to suck on things like our shirts, arms, fingers, feet, basically anything he can get in his mouth, so I gave him a bottle with some water in it. He did 7 sucks. Not bad for a kiddo who hasn’t had a bottle in almost a year and a half. 

{video shows Wyatt playing with a bottle, not very happy when Mom tries to help him.}

{picture of Wyatt trying to feed himself, making quite a mess of his baby food}

He’s also started showing an interest in standing. We are working on getting him his own gait trainer at home, which is what he uses at PT. In the meantime, we found a used baby walker and he’s started spending some time in that. I suspect it won’t be long before he’s running over our toes. 

{video of Wyatt in the walker. A few seconds in, he makes the walker move on its own}

We know the sky is the limit with this boy! He continues to be happy most of the time, unless he’s at PT/OT, or when we tell him no. His best friend continues to be Duke and he’s started screaming at Duke when he moves away from him. 

{photo of Wyatt in his walker. He’s giving Duke, the dog, a look because he can barely reach him to pet him.}

Up next: hearing aid consult! I see some bright aids in his future. 

P.S. in case you’re wondering why the captions are more descriptive than usual, I’m trying to be inclusive of readers who may be blind or visually impaired and rely on text to speech software. That software can’t accommodate images, so those readers are left wondering what an image may look like. By providing a brief description of the image, all the readers may enjoy Wyatt’s posts.