November was a busy but great month. We celebrated Thanksgiving twice. My nephew came from Syracuse the week before and we celebrated with my family an early Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving day, we visited with John's family and it was really nice. That was the first time they saw Alexis and it was like she knew them forever. She is not a shy girl for sure.Alexis keeps adding more words to her vocabulary but last week was a big one because she said "touchdown'. For her brother this was the most amazing thing. He breaths football and I can not imagine his reaction if she says Go Colts! but for me, there is not a sweeter moment then when she said "ma-ma".
We saw her surgeon and we scheduled her third surgery for late February. This will be the last surgery and then we will start working with a pediatric dentist. Fortunately , she has all her teeth and they are pretty straight but we will have to work intensively with an orthodontist but that will be years from now. She's still healing from the surgery done in November but things are moving along. We just need to massage the area three times a day with Talsyn-CI which is a cream for scars. The area will look rather reddish for a while.
SO.... for now, our main focus with Alexis Nicole will be speech and fortunately Florida has a great "Early Steps" program especially in our County. Complementing that with the preschool she's in, this will help her immensely. The Early Steps program is an early intervention system that offers services to children with delays or conditions that make them have a delay in certain areas. To be eligible, the child needs to be evaluated in all areas. It is a great program and we had the sweetest service coordinator. When she turns three, she will be in another program and we will start requesting services in March so she can be ready to start by her third birthday.
Well, that's it for now. I will post more pictures in the upcoming weeks.
