birthday party

Liam went to his first birthday party today, at least the first REAL birthday party, where parents were not allowed! It was Thindra's party (assistant Ulrica's oldest daughter; the little care taker girl!). Liam had bought her a necklace and a butterfly hairpin (I hear from Ullis that Thindra is wearing it even to bed:-))!

Liam has a talking machine; we record messages and then he can press a button to make the message come out. Today I recorded the Happy birthday to you-song so he could sing to Thindra!
Oh, I wish you could have seen him; he was so excited about going! I am absolutely sure he knew he was about to go to a party and have fun!
He was dressed in his best shirt (blue/white striped) and his dressy summer pants! He had gel in his hair and looked SOOOO good!
After a while, at the party, the sound level got a big too high. Thindra gladly left her party to take Liam for a walk in his wheelchair outside! Wow, that little girl is something special!!!



Liam had so much to tell me when he came home! I could tell it had made a big impression on him... it makes me so happy when he comes home and tell me things! I'm so glad he has all these experiences by himself that he tells me about, rather than I experience it with him!!! He is a big boy!!!
In the afternoon he made muffins with raspberry and white chocolate! We ate a couple but are saving most of them for the family outing in the city park tomorrow! Culture Dept. is having a Astrid Lindgren Day there, so there will Pippi Longstocking theatre, Emil singing and lots more! We go every year! Liam loves it!!!!

Max had a visit from the physical therapist yesterday! She showed us how to train him to learn how to move from sitting to laying down (not flipping himself backwards) and guess what... we did it a couple of times yesterday and a couple of times this morning... and in the afternoon he did it all by himself!!! Smart guy!

The physical therapist (her name is Gudrun, and she has worked with Liam since he was four months old!) says that Max is very strong in his upper body! His legs and feet lack some tonus (all relexes ok, though), which is why he is not moving more. But since he was weak in his upper body before, she sees potential for him learning to use his legs! She also sees him using his hands correctly, both hands cooperating to examine things and so on, as positive! But he seems to be weaker in his left side. His reflexes are not so strong there and of course, he should hold his bottle, clap his hands and so on by now!

I am glad Gudrun is now involved in his life, as well as Liam's! She is really good; and she listens to me!

I have pictures from today, but will upload them tomorrow!