Every day we go through the same routines. Luke needs OT, PT, and Speech every day. It is usually easy to incorporate these things in all our play time. Only doing so takes extra effort because it isn’t like showing a child how to do something a few times and then they know how to play with a certain object. No, with Luke you show him and do it over and over again only to continue to watch him struggle. For example, one of his toys we work with in order to refine OT skills is the piggy bank. You may have seen them. You put the coins in the top and then can take them out the door on the side. Luke knows what to do, only he struggles holding on to the coins with only the thumb and forefinger. So instead of putting the coin vertically as it should go, he winds up coming in at an angle or completely perpendicular to the pig. After a couple tries he gets frustrated and reverts back to his favorite game…throwing. So instead of putting the coins in the pig, he throws the coins around the house. Things like this begin to take their toll when doing them day after day.
All of this to say how silly a desperate mom can get. When things become so routine sometimes you have to act a little silly to make it enjoyable again. The other day, I don’t know if it was the weather or the music I was listening to on the radio, but the silly momma showed her head. We were outside working on our “walking” skills with the walker and listening to the radio in the garage. My baby girl was watching us make circles in the driveway while pushing up on her tummy. And, when Luke began to drag…and not want to really walk I thought “I have to do something to get him focused and walking”. So how do you get a 2 year old who doesn’t want to walk…. to walk? Why dance of course!! So here we are outside for all to see, a 2 year old walking with a walker and a momma who is dancing in front of him trying to be entertaining. Of course I could only dance for so long. So I alternated between hip hop moves, running in place, a tap dance routine I learned in high school (which both Luke and our baby girl found quite funny), hop scotch, and running backwards. Then when I got tired running in place I decided to run circles around Luke, then I ran circles around our baby girl. I’m sure that if any of our neighbors saw us that they thought I was completely nuts. Such is the life of a special mom!!
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