The end of EI

 For Ben that is. Not me. I work in EI, and plan to for as long as I can. But, tomorrow is Ben's last EI appointment with his PT. We will switch over next week to private therapy. I have to say, I am a little worried about it. I mean, I love his therapist. I have loved having her come to our home for the past 3 years. She has helped him in so many ways. He has come so far because of her and I can not believe he is aging out of Early Intervention already! He will be 3 next week and EI only goes to age 3. So, we will switch to clinic based therapy next Thursday. Our last session in the home is tomorrow. We have already set it up with the therapist and the front desk that due to his condition, we will check in at the front and she will escort us back to the room Ben will be using. Unfortunately, we can not be the first patient of the day. I believe they open for patients at 8 am, and I drop the girls off for school on Thursdays at 8:30. So, I will be getting to the clinic around 9:30. BUT, his PT said they have some college students there that she is going to use to clean off all the toys an items that she thinks she will need to use for that session, before we get there. So, at least I can be reassured that everything is being done to keep it as germ free as possible.We do want to make sure he is doing as well as possible. And, his PT said that he has come SO far. But, he is still having trouble with things that require quad strength, such as going down the stairs, jumping and pedaling a tricycle (which he did a few times 2 weeks ago. But just those few times.) He also has some low tone in his lower body which needs to be monitored. So we will still continue on with PT. And hopefully he will continue to make great progress.

Climbing up the "rocks"

He pushed the pedals a couple of times! Yay PT!