[tri-med] Re: still not smiling???

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From: "Pamela Padgett" <padgettcastle@xxxxxxxxx>

>She was always quiet, still is, I think deep down she is soaking up
everything, just waiting >for her own time to do it,

This is EXACTLY what we used to say about Alex. He was so quiet but studying
and soaking everything up, just waiting for the right moment to let it all
out.

He did it with crawling. Age 14 months he began. And it wasn't a messy crawl
or commando crawl, he got up on all 4's and did it. Of course, we'd been
working with him for 8 months on the crawling motion (I'd hold his torso and
Jim would work the hands/feet and vice versa, also, diaper change times were
leg and arm motion time).

Same thing with speech. We played music a lot and sang a lot. Alex LOVED
musicals (Mary Poppins, Mary Martin Peter Pan, Singing in the Rain) and
Raffi was a huge fav too. When colicky Molly was on a screaming jag while I
was trying to change our bed I put her into the bassinette. I was changing
the bed as fast as I could go so that I could pick her up again and TRY to
calm her down. Alex was standing there peering into the bassinette and I
hurriedly said, "Sing Molly a song and maybe she'll quiet
down"........knowing he'd NEVER up and sung a song before (he was 3.5 yrs
old). The little squirt began very quietly singing the ABC song and did THE
ENTIRE SONG (I'd never even heard him do the first 3 letters before).
I was crying by the end and that darn bed went unchanged for hours.  :0)   I
had to hug him, sing with him and burn up the phone lines with the
unbelievably good news.

Michelle mom to Alex (16, partial trisomy 14 mosaic) and Molly (13)
MichiganUSA


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