The Journey of James Weston

Saturday, August 20th, 2022 James' hair is getting long again. We have a hair routine down for his voluminous curls! ➰ Mom is currently researching on how to cut your own toddler's hair at home. We shall see! Today he went for the James Dean look. 😎 While Dad had another busy day on back to back calls, James played on the floor as Mom prepared dinner. 🍽️ James was focused on exploring the supply closet and then played Peek-A-Boo with Mom around our new Berkey. 🫣 James' Selfies P.S. You can email James your love and support as often as you’d like. Mom and Dad read these email to James as they come in. We all love them! JamesWestonAbramowitz@gmail.com

Friday, August 19th, 2022 Today we focused a lot on books! 📚 James has been more and more interested lately. The popular books right now are ones with photos of babies, different textures to touch, or his favorite is the Peek-A-Boo book series where we can use his finger to play hide and seek with things on the pages. This one is great for fine motor skills.  In the afternoon, James had his first early invention session with our new therapist. She spent the time asking Mom questions to get a good feel for what James can do and what we are working on. James was a show off. The entire hour he was talking, showing her how he plays, and looking for responses from us. It was adorable and very age appropriate! It is very exciting to have therapy 3x a week and moving forward we abve her coming on Wednesdays. So Tues, Wed, Thurs James will have therapys in the home! After trach care Mom was settling James down and played his James Weston Lullaby which is on his giraffe 🦒. When it finishe...

Thursday, August 18th, 2022 Mom worked out James pretty hard in the morning so in the afternoon James was napping when PT was supposed to start. He ended up waking once he heard our voices talking. Our physical therapist was very impressed at how well James was doing with standing up and wanting to pull himself up.  Mom also got a call from another therapist who would be joining our Early Steps team. She will be coming by tomorrow just to get a feel for how James is doing. She falls under Early Intervention through Early Steps and would come once a week. The focus would be on communication skills (signing, babbling and working with our speech therapist), social/emotional skills (playing and interacting), fine motor skills (picking up small objects, drawing, holding a spoon). This way our physical therapist who comes twice a week can focus on gross motor skills (crawling walking, independently sitting, standing). James twisted himself up in his circuit. 😲 P.S. You can email James y...

Wednesday, August 17th, 2022 James' nap schedule was off today and he ended up with a really late nap. Mom hates to wake a sleeping baby, but the thing is we needed to do his trach change a little earlier when Dad was available. With Dad's calls being back to back it just so happened that someone had rescheduled and we had an opening for trach care! Unfortunately when we woke him up from his nap that he just went down for James was very angry at us. This was the first time he really through a tantrum. He worked up his emotions to cry and slammed his legs down on the bed. However it was short lived because he has such a pleasant temperament. Mom told him we were going to sing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" 🕷️ and he smiled because right now this is one of his favorites. Actually you could probably sing any song and he would love it. Well Dad started singing but performed it his way  like Frank Sinatra. Well James just slowly put his head down and stared at the floor. He is getti...

Tuesday, August 16th, 2022 We are moving physical therapy to Tuesday/Thursday instead of Wednesday/Friday. We have been extremely happy with our therapist through Early Steps. Today we worked on more bearing weight through his legs and arms. The great thing is that James is really wanting to stand.  After PT Mom played with James on the floor and for some reason James thought that the phone charging cord needed to go on his head. He was very adamant about that! [Video] James helped Mom in the kitchen with dinner as the sun was setting in the backyard. James had prunes for dinner and gave himself a moustache. He also played the drums on his crib railing. P.S. You can email James your love and support as often as you’d like. Mom and Dad read these email to James as they come in. We all love them! JamesWestonAbramowitz@gmail.com