Wingbo

Well lately I am running out of things to say. Life has settled down considerably so I don’t have much to report. Today was a rough rough day with the Medek exercises. Nathan is outraged that we are doing these at home and didn’t want to cooperate at all. But thanks to the encouragement of Lourdes’ parents and family and of a few wonderful parents, we are pushing forwards. Largely thanks to Mary who is just determined to make this work for Nathan. I had to back away but she worked through his screams. I need a lot of prayer and meditation to get me centered enough to handle it. But I will get there – no doubt about it.

Anyways, I figured I’d use my lack of new things to report to talk about the Wingbo:

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It’s a prone swing. The child lies on their belly and can swing. If they are little it can hang in a sort of little gym type thingie, but if they’re older it can hang from a tree or doorway or something. I love the idea because we could put Nathan on his belly and get him to raise his head to strengthen his back and neck while swinging. We’re working on a little grant to be able to order it so I hope it works out so we can get this for Nathan!

Settling in

We’re back home and have adjusted to the new flow of our lives.

Life is good. Nathan is over his cold, and very happy (except when he doesn’t want to do medek). We’ve settled back into routine with his normal activities. Today we had a play date with a local family of a child with special needs, and then went to swim class. There is an energy of relaxation around our house because now we can just focus on one thing, instead of too many. It’s wonderful!

We’re getting a handle on the Medek exercises and getting into a “groove” of doing 2 sessions every day. Today he had one AMAZING session where he pulled up and held himself for a while!

So I just wanted to write a brief note to say where are back home, settling into our new routine, and happy as can be.

Quick Update

We are doing well. Nathan seems to have a little cold but continues to work hard with Esther. Evey day he seems to be able to do something that he couldn’t do the previous day -it’s amazing.

I don’t have much time on the internet to upload many videos, so I thought Id just show one today:

Esther was really proud of him for this one, she said it required extension from the head all the way down to the feet, and he was able to achieve it. Hooray Nathan!

We are starting to get a bit worn out from being away from home so it’s starting to get a bit hard for both of us, but we are hanging in there and excited to learn more of the exercises and to see Nathan responding to them.

Thanks for checking in!