Day 210 - Wednesday July 11, 2012

I don't know if I mentioned it but Bridgett's new watch arrived a couple of days ago.  We got it all set up and she wears it every day.  She can look at the watch to find out what day of the week it is and what the date is.  We are encouraging her to do that all the time and it will become a habit soon.  Also, she continues to carry her schedule book everywhere; for now it will be her "memory".  Today when we had speech therapy Share looked over what Bridgett has recorded and encouraged her to be more specific about what she did each day.  For example instead of just writing shopping, put down where she shopped and if she bought something for herself or just helped me shop.  Bridgett is also so positive and cute about things--when anyone suggests that she do something different she says wonderful idea, I like that!  She remembered Share's office and Share herself, she just didn't remember her name (of course it's an uncommon name and I can't figure out how to tell you she pronounces it but shar to rhyme with bar and then long e).  Share finished the session by having Bridgett do some naming from a book.  Wow--they had some really random things to name like a picture of a trellis, a sphinx and an abacus--whatever!  Anyway, next we had PT with Kim and that went well also. Kim was really good with Bridgett and she worked on balance and hip stability.  Bridgett's balance is really quite good but standing on one foot is challenging.  They are working on her being able to stand on one foot for 30 seconds.  After rehab we met Arrianne and Stephany and we all went shopping at the mall.  It was a fun time for all of us and the girls found some cute clothes.  Bridgett loves the symbol of the fleur de lis and she found a really cute shirt with that symbol on it.  That is what Dave had put on two of her hats because he knew she liked that; very thoughtful Dave!