March 2012

 For St. Patrick's Day I put together a large playgroup event. We had tons of fun with all of our friends. Everyone brought lots of fun treats that were themed for st. Patrick's day. I also put together a leprechaun hunt and it was super fun.

one of Madison's favorite things is when daddy gets on the floor and plays with her. this is one of my favorite pictures of the two of them playing. she is definitely a daddy's girl.

Madison loves it when i open the door and she can sit and watch all the planes go by at night and sometimes the kitty even comes and visits her.

one night when daddy had to work late and antie Kelly was performing at her school in the band so we went to watch. i was really surprised that Madison was not afraid of the loud music in the building

Madison's playing with her cousin Ethan

one of Madison's favorite things is to play on her bike she got for Christmas but she can only go backwards and typically gets herself in quite a bit of a predicament. However since she cant walk she has found it a most effective way to get around her playroom.

15 months

At 13 months I noticed that Madison was a little different then other kids her age. But I was told multiple times all kids develop at different rates she'll catch up in no time. At 15 months I noticed she hadn't gained any new skills since she was about 12 months she wasn't walking she didn't talk or imitate speech and she didn't really interact with the environment around her. There were several other "red flags" I started to see. She just wasn't developing at all. I waited until she was 15 months to take her in to be tested for developmental delays. My worst fears were that we would hear words like autism or aspergers syndrome! Luckily that's not what we heard and
I was so happy after they tested her I was in tears! She tested at 8 months developmentally in most catagories which is quite far behind for her age so since she is so far behind she gets free therapy from the state once a week for an hour until she catches up to her age group in all categories. She also is getting a hearing test to make sure thats not the reason for the delay.