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March 14, 2006
Monthly Newsletter: Month Eight
Dear Dashiell,
Today you turned 8 months old. You're nearing the age that you'll have spent as many weeks out of me as you did inside me.
This month was decidedly more quiet than the previous one, other than the plane trip home, a lot less international travel for this mini man of mystery. Mostly we've just been settling back into the daily grind of therapist sessions, which doesn't make for spectacular storytelling.
Static-y tv sounds took a backseat to the new sound you like to make/thing you like to do with your mouth... raspberries and spitting. Sometimes you will do this for quite some time, over 5 minutes at a time. Enough time that I think my own lips would have fallen off with blowing so many raspberries.
The spitting would be kind of amusing, if it didn't involve saliva. You already drool plenty, we don't really need it to come out at high velocity at us. Usually you have this extremely indignant look on your face when you spit, and accompany it with rigorous flapping of your arms.
You had an evaluation at the children's hospital this month, where you were supposed to be fitted with handsplints, because at the time the splints were recommended (late december), you were folding your thumbs inwards a lot. After the bureaucracy finally caught up and gave us an evaluation date, it turned out that your thumbs had mostly corrected themselves, and you didn't need the splints. So thankfully a bit of good news.
Another item on the good news list was that we came home from South Africa to the news that the little plug that can fix your heart murmur has been re-approved by the FDA, and at the end of March you have the catheterisation procedure rescheduled. So, no major surgery, thankfully.
On the flight home from South Africa you got to meet your other grandma, and your two uncles, for a little bit when we had a stop in Amsterdam. So now you've met everyone in your dad and my immediate family. Hopefully we'll be visiting them all again later this year.
Your trunk gets a little stronger all the time, and you're getting closer and closer to sitting up without help. We still need to work on making those weedy little arms stronger though, but that too is seeing improvement all the time. You're getting much better at pulling your knees under you during tummy time, so when the arm strength is there, we don't think crawling will be that far off at all.
Hopefully by next month there will be more progress to report.
Love,
Mama
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