Here comes Mighty Mouse!

There is not a day that goes by that I am not totally proud of my Rachel.  I just laugh when I think about doctors who said how limited she might be when we were told she has Cerebral Palsy.  Yup, they didn't know who they were diagnosing...

This year having exited much of the private services for gross motor and fine motor has gone very well.  We made a good decision.  She will be evaluated by Carrie Tingly Hospital soon again to make sure she is not heel walking with her right foot.  If she is she might need to go back into an orthotic but honestly even that I think might be too invasive.  I kick myself almost everyday when I limited her future thinking how this diagnoses would limit her.  Now I'm realizing instead of worrying so much about doing everything possible, just letting Rachey be Rachey is sort of all she needs.

We don't treat her at all differently than we do the boys except that her Special Ed teacher has instructed us to use a stroller during long activities.  Yup, that doesn't go too well with the boys.  Rachel assumes it is just princess treatment.  We also try to make sure she still gets a two hour nap because she needs more sleep than the boys.  It is when she is tired that she will start too wobble and get hurt.

No super hero story of course would be complete though without seeing her super powers.  While she does not do sports at this time she does do 2 classes of gym and 2 classes of dance a week.  She is just always charming everyone.  They call her the little performer for a reason.   I'm amazed by the sheer strength of her little body.   My favorite is her dance though, because she is just too cute!