Day 19 on MAPS

I was hoping to post daily with Billee's progress as the tiniest things can happen all the time. Unfortunatly its now been 1 week since the last post!
We had to send Claudie a report at the end of last week so we had to really think of any improvements in Billee no matter how small.

We realised the following things:

* She is moving her legs and body more especially whilst laying on the floor.
* She is more vocal and is shouting (babble) a lot.
* She is laughing more.
* She seems to move her head forward whilst sitting in her pram or when I'm putting hair up in a pony tail.
* She has started to put her left thumb in her mouth. Previously she could only suck the side of her hand.
* She touches her head / hair with her right hand more.
* She looks at the art pictures and will hold the look for 2 seconds.

In the last few days Billee is also trying her hardest to roll over. She starts on her back and rolls onto her stomache but gets her arm stuck under her body.
Yesterday she was laying on her tummy and I helped her put her arms out in front to lean on and I lifted her legs so that she was kneeling on them.
She has never had the strength to do this. In the past she just flops back down and her legs spread out wide.
She actually stayed up on her knees for a few minutes. We were so excited!!

After speaking with Claudie yesterday morning she gave us some extra games / exercises to do with Billee.
These included tracking a red object whilst looking at art work, spa treatment and the water game.
Spa treatment is designed to be an ultimate seratonin booster and for this we will be giving Billee a nice warm bath and wrapping her in a warm towel afterwards. This is then followed by a hand and foot massage.

For the water game you have 2 bowls of water, one with warm water and one with cold tap water. We then have to place Billee's hands in the bowls at the same time for 3 seconds. We need to repeat this 4 times but swap the bowls over each time.
After gently wiping her hands we then give her 2 objects to hold on to (eg... a cotton ball and a pine cone).
Next we get a small marble and draw lines from the palm of her hand out to every finger and back.

We will start the new games today so I will post tomorrow with an update on how Billee managed them.

Other than that Billee remains very alert and responsive. She had an off whingy day on Monday but we have family staying with us from England at the moment and I think she was a little overwhelmed and confused.