June 2 = Snap Day

Liam started snapping today. We had a lady from the Anne Arundel Infants & Toddlers Program visit us today to talk about what services they offer and to get Liam’s medical and developmental history in preparation for his evaluation next week. We were telling her our concerns about his delay in walking and speech and Liam decided to walk all around the apartment and correctly identified his head, nose, eyes, ears, mouth and feet. He made us look like we were silly for worrying which is not a bad thing. He got a little bored while we were talking so Zachary grabbed some play dough from the other room and they started playing with it. He got some stuck to his thumb so he was using his middle finger to get it off and SNAP! He found he could make a pretty cool sound and so we’ve shown Grammy we can snap and we even snapped along with some music this afternoon. And that’s what led me to writing this blog. In a year, I might not remember the day he learned how to snap. Another cool thing he did today was take a nap on a double mattress instead of his crib. Liam has trouble sleeping anywhere but his crib- he doesn’t fall asleep in the middle of the floor while playing or doze off while we’re sitting on the couch watching the game at night… he has to be in his crib, holding Gigi the giraffe with his sound machine on and lights off. But he’s being evicted from his crib soon so we thought we should start transitioning him to his super cool bunk bed we bought him right before we moved up to Annapolis. The bottom bunk is a double bed and the top is a twin and there are stairs on the side for him to use one day. We also put a double mattress under the bed where eventually we will have the drawers that came with it. As an experiment, today we decided to pull the bottom mattress out and leave him in his room to play when he was really tired in hopes he’d climb up on the mattress and take a nap. He did! And here’s what we saw when we opened the door to check on him- he’s a very light sleeper so he probably had just sat up when we turned the door knob.



So we’re really optimistic about this Infants & Toddlers program- we hope it will help him catch up but mainly we hope his increased mobility and ability to express himself will lower his frustration. Most of the time he’s super happy and so fun to be around but sometimes he has days where he’s had enough of us not understanding what he’s trying to tell us and lets everyone know he’s done. Those days are occurring less often and we hope that trend continues!