Hard Work!

Ann our OT gave me a full report from her visit with Summer this morning.

First, she was amazed that Summer was voluntarily keeping her cast on. She took it off once this morning: A mom at the daycare asked her how she hurt her arm, Summer yanked off her cast to show the mom that it was not hurt, then put it back on!

She continues to keep her cast on –voluntarily-. I guess last night when she saw how upset we were with her pulling it off, she understands that it is not an option.

During therapy today Summer used her right hand A LOT!
She is leaning a bit when scooping so she needs to be reminded of her posture. She was stacking toys, putting pegs into a foam pad, and opening play eggs.

She wanted to do some creative work and did some paper cutting. She can close the scissors, but had a hard time opening them. Ann will see about using some spring loaded ones for a bit. Summer also enjoyed doing some hole punching with a single hole spring loaded hole puncher.

Summer had an amazing attention span for 45 min. Ann decided to let Summer let her know when she had enough. At the 45min mark Summer decided she had enough fine motor and she wanted to show Ann all her hopping and jumping skills.

Some of the expressions Summer had during her therapy today:

“this is tough!”
“I’m not sure about that!”

Ann mentioned that toileting was ‘interesting’ but they managed ok.

Summer’s little friends are quite interested in her cast. Hopefully it motivates her to keep it on.

We are schedule to re-cast tomorrow at 1pm.

Ann mentioned that Summer was in an amazing good mood this morning and that after the therapy and play she was starting to look a little tired. I am sure she will have a good nap this afternoon.