When we went to OT the other day we met a little boy who is almost exactly one year younger than Luke. They were having a PT session and were trying to get him to use a walker just like Luke has. Since we needed to walk down the hall to the OT’s room anyway, the PT got the other boy set up in the walker and we tried to motivate the other boy by following Luke down the hall.
The idea worked out well, in fact it worked so well that the other boy kept trying to run over Luke with the walker. The walkers actually connected a few different times. At one point the rear wheels of Luke’s walker and the front wheels of the other boys walker were tangled up. The problem was that the other boy kept walking and Luke kept stopping to look back at this boy. It was pretty funny to watch.
Since Luke wanted to look back we tried switching up the order and put Luke behind this other boy and tried to continue walking down the hall. This time the other boy took off and Luke went into “turbo walking” speed. Luke, who is still learning to turn his walker, somehow veered his walker to the right of the other boy and actually tried to pass him. Luke managed to pull up right alongside the other boy. It was kind of like watching a NASCAR race. My husband was so proud that Luke is picking up on his daddy’s love for NASCAR.
So Luke now has a racing buddy. I’ve never seen anything like it.
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