Ashley’s Newest Developments
October 2007
As some of you know I posted her video of when we finally caught her first works on camera which were "Love You." She's been saying that since about 6 months. She used to say it while she was whining a bit to get our attention, but now she says it when she's really happy. For insance when we give her a teething toy, she loves that:)
She is saying "dada" and "baba" or "boo-boo" on a regular basis, and we're working on our colors now, I could have sworn I heard her say "yellow" yesterday, but it was probably just babbling. We'll see if she does it again.
She starting rolling over from front to back at about 5 months and a few weeks later she flipped from back to front.
She props up on her hands and has excellent head control since about 6.5 months. In fact she likes to throw her head from side to side when she gets excited. I refer to her as my little pitbull because shelooks like a puppy when they get ahold of something and shake it.
We just had her checked for development last week. She is physically doing motor skills of a 4.5 to 5 month old, which is normal for her. As far as cognitive skills, she is above average. As far as her talking and the way she interacts with people and is very alert and aware of her surroundings.
We are working on her sitting up on her own and can sit up for a couple seconds on her own, but she tends to go right for her feet and topple over when she bends for them. That's a new thing she just found. She has realized she has feet and toes and she can reach them, so they're quite amazing to her right now.
We took her to the ped orthopedic doctor and he said everything is as it should be, and he isn't worried about her kyphosis because it normally fixes itself as children with achondroplasia get older. Quite frankly I have a hard time with doctors when it comes to being aware of what is going on with her. I can't blame them because they specialize in so much it is hard to get someone who specifically works with dwarfism. But that's a whole new soapbox there!! Lets just say most that parents little peolpe are far more knowledgable than your average doctor, because we take the time to do the research! I'll stop, I'm opening that soapbox and now isn't the time.
Anyway, back to Ashley she has the most amazing temperment and attentoin to detail I have ever met on a child. And that's not bias opinion, anyone who knows her comments on that. I've come to a realization about little people or any extra special child for that matter......As you know that most people or children who have a "delay" in some things will exceed in others. I think that is the reason that Ashley has developed so well cognitively. Her body will only do so much as this age, so when other babies are out racing around crawling and what not, little poeple children are honing thier mental skills and developing faster that way. I believe as they get older it may even out a bit, but as for right now what they cannot do physically, their minds are overcompensating for and giving us some brilliant little babies. And that's my theory.
Oh, another thing, so I found out that the main cause of a fontanel (soft spot on babies' head) being larger is achondroplasia among other things. And that the "soft spot" that so many parents, (myself included) think/thought was dangerous is actually to better protect your child. Because a child has a soft spot it provides a coushoning like a helmet for them when they fall which is very important because babies tend to fall head first when they're learning to walk. So it's actually better for them to have a soft spot as long as they're not falling on a pointy object. So I got to thinking how perfect God really made these little bundles. He knew that they would be walking later in life, so he gave them a larger fontanel that would close later, because they will need it later. How perfect is that!!! I am so amazed at God's Perfection, it blows my mind on a daily basis. We are so blessed!
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