My Stubborn Little Girl

As promised, updates on M's therapy.

She had physical therapy on Monday, and she is doing really well. M is now walking across the whole couch which is great. She can also stand up in the middle of the floor w/out holding on to anything. Which I'm told is a 14 month skill, so we know she can walk and balance, which is a GREAT thing.
This is where her stubbornness comes in, for 2 weeks I've been trying to get her to do a few things.....

1)when she's walking w/my hands(which she very rare) I've been trying to make her "walk" using only one of my hands......She doesn't like it very much, she'll immediately get down to crawl.
2)When she's holding on to the couch or chair I'll hold something out just far enough that she would need to take one step and let go......this is not for her either. She will immediately get down and crawl to the item to get it. Even her therapist try to get her to do it quite a few times w/no eval.

She's so stubborn I swear. Though today I did catch her twice, while she's standing at the couch, take a large step to the side, let go of the couch, and fall forward to get a toy. It's very funny, since she's falling on purpose.

N's doing really good at school. The teacher told me that today when all the kids were lined up to go to Music class N was getting his diaper changed, he heard the kids playing w/the bell on the door and he said clear as day and at a good volume "My Mommy here?". I'm so proud of him! We really have to start working on his volume cuz half the time you can't hear him, and then he gets upset.

One last thing before I get off tonight.....I found out something very interesting, I'm allergic to the icing mix they had us make for class. Nice huh! I know I'm allergic to sucralose which is splenda, I my poor tummy just gets all tight and I feel so sick if I eat/drink anything w/that in it. Well, that's what happened last night(after I made the icing) and I couldn't figure out why. Then this morning after I iced some cookies I had one and it came back. I know it has to do w/the Meringue powder, everything else that's in it, powdered sugar, vanilla(McCormick of course), and Crisco, I've had before. I'm just not sure why, so T has her mom's old Wilton buttercream recipe that she's going to give me tomorrow, and I know that I'm not allergic to anything in that one!!