Practice Makes Perfect

Anna's OT and I discussed how to increase Anna's leg strength. She suggested having Anna walk and play on her knees. I used to do more formal sessions of therapy with Anna when she was younger and less capable. But it's as if she was paying attention to our conversation yesterday and came up with a game on her own. An hour or so after Joanne left, she was kneeling in front of my computer with a car on top of it and running it back and forth the top of it for quite some time. She took a break for dinner and then went back to 'work' afterwards. Now she's playing catch with Dave, but earlier they were crawling and she decided that rather than use her arms for help, she'd walk on her knees. Grant it, she used the couch for some support, but she only used one hand and she did it all on her own. I think she'd make a good personal trainer - very self motivated!