Developmental Appointment

Max had his development appointment with the doctor last Friday to see how he is doing. Andy and I were hoping this would be the last one, but unfortunately it is not. For the most part he is either right at his adjusted age of 8 months or a little higher around 9 months. He did come in under his adjusted age for fine motor skills. Honestly, we are not very shocked by this. The doctor informed us that we really need to work with him on his fine motor skills so he isn't behind. He is barely a 7 month old with his fine motor skills. The doctor said based on all the other tests she can tell he is a smart baby, so she isn't worried that he can't do it...he just needs to do it. 

We were given handouts and plenty of ideas on what to do to improve his fine motor skills. With grandma Laura in town we hit up Babies R Us to get a couple toys. One of his favorites is the below contraption with plenty of activities to keep him busy and most importantly work his little hands.

After standing up and me providing support in case he fell backwards, from all the excitement, he decided to use me as a chair. This lasted for a while and my arms were getting really sore, but I stuck it out because he was having a great time.

He has a follow-up appointment in four months and if he's not better with his fine motor skills he will have to go to therapy. Hopefully we won't have to go that route and I am pretty confident he will figure it out.

By the way, this mamma is pretty proud of him. This morning when I dropped him off at Ms. Marie's house he waved bye to me. I have been showing him how to wave bye and this morning was the first time he actually did it as I was leaving. I will admit, this mamma got teary-eyed. Oh, it's the little things in life that are so special and meaningful!