Susanna is 16 months old now.  Since we moved to a new county, we are working with a new Early Intervention.  Here, the parents are responsible for locating the therapists needed for their child.  I have found a wonderful physical therapist for Susanna, but am still looking for a speech therapist.  The physical therapist did a thorough evaluation on her and found her to be at about 8-9 months development in her gross motor skills.  Her fine motor skills are excellent.  She has ordered a big exercise ball that we're going to use daily with Susanna to help strengthen her torso muscles.  Just in the last couple of weeks, she has gotten into a hands and knees position and been able to hold it for a couple of seconds before falling to one side.  I'm excited at that progress!  Other fairly recent developments include learning to get into a sitting position on her own and improved cruising down the side of a piece of furniture. 

She still loves cuddling and nursing, but is also turning into quite the ham in her high chair during meals.  She loves to make her siblings laugh.  The last few days she's been a bit on the grumpy side due to 2 eye teeth and 2 molars all coming through at the same time.  OUCH!  She'd just gotten two other molars through before these started up.  Hopefully we'll get a little break before the next teeth start pushing their way through!

For those newer to my blog who do not know, Susanna has NeuroFibromatosis, a genetic tumor disorder.  If interested, you may look at all of the updates on her from when we first found out about it under the category "Susanna Updates."  As always, thank you to everyone who is praying for her!

Love, Dawn