Video Extravaganza

Well, it's been a while since my last post - mostly because I've been very busy at work, but I made time to do a quick post tonight with a bunch of videos.

I can't find the tape that had Sophie's dedication on it - I'm hoping it's in the diaper bag or something. What I do have is stuff from Sophie's fittings, and even tonight when she took her own first stepd on her prosthetic leg - heretofore called her "super leg" - that's what we call it with her :)

Sophie kisses her kitty, Teddy:

Sophie Playing outside with bubbles on Memorial Day:

Sophie lays down in the kitchen:

Sophie's first fitting - this is prototype prosthetic for her leg:

The second fitting (Monday - June 16)

After working with her every night this week to just keep her prosthetic leg on for more than five minutes without a huge temper tantrum, we had our first big breakthrough tonight:

It's time for bed - I'll update again soon!

Larry

Sophie Meets Grandpa Cal

On Friday, Stacy's dad Cal came to visit us (mostly Sophie) from Virginia.

The trip was a surprise for him from grandma Julie.



Sophie has been having a great time with him, and has really become comfortable with him (she even let's him pick her up now!)



Cal will be staying with us until Sunday, so he's trying to get as much Sophie time as he can with her between now and then.

Grandpa Cal surprised Sophie with a very nice wagon as a gift - she loves it!



I think she's getting ready to tie Buddy up and have a good old fashioned dog powered wagon... okay maybe not for a couple of years, but you know it's coming!



I still have to pull the video from the dedication and get that posted - I'll try and get that done this weekend at the latest...

Everyone, have a great day!


Larry

Sophie's First Fitting

Well, at long last, another update!

First of all, on Thursday night, we had or first "crayon on the wall" incident...



Fortunately, it was the bath crayons, and they cleaned up with a little water and a little scrubbing - no big deal.

Friday morning, we finally had Sophie's first fitting for her prosthetic leg.



Sophie was fine as they put socks on her in preparation of the fitting.





But when they actually fit the socket on her, it was tantrum time...



Mostly it was because she didn't know what was happening, and she wasn't familiar with her tech, Kristine.

We made it through., and the socket fit very well.

Once we were done, I asked if she could handle the socket, so that she could get used to it and maybe settle her down for the future.

Sophie held the socket, played with it a little, and was even playing as if putting it on her arm and leg. So the plan worked - we hope that at the final fitting (hopefully in a week or so) she won't go into tantrum mode again.



They told us that her hand was already in (the arm socket is still in process), so we asked to see it and have Sophie hold that too. The more she gets comfortable with this stuff, the better off we all will be...

This is the actual hand appliance that she'll be using in a few weeks...



Again, we hope that they are able to fabricate the leg socket soon, so Sophie can be really running around.

More to come soon!

Larry