Back to School

 Zoe was very excited the first day back to school!  Zoe has a new teacher this year and so far it seems like it is going to be a great fit.  The teachers are able to include lots of body movement breaks for Zoe as well as lots of physical activity so Zoe is loving school.  Zoe also has a Hopsa sling in her classroom- Zoe loves the Hopsa!  The Hopsa is a body sling (think Jolly Jumper) that is on a track so Zoe can move all over the classroom independently and get right up to things to explore, learn and play.  Zoe loves spinning and jumping in the sling- things she can not do in her walker.  School is also looking at getting Zoe a new walker for school.  The one she had been using for the past few years is just not working well for Zoe.  We brought her Mustang walker in from home and everyone was amazed at how well Zoe is able to walk in it and how upright she keeps her self now.  So hopefully we will be able to figure out a great solution for school so we do not need to send the walker back and forth every week.

Big Girls Keep Getting Bigger!

Ailsa moved in to the bottom bunk in Zoe's room.  We were holding off with the move since Zoe is still very restless in the night.  However, Ailsa decided she it too big to keep sleeping in our walk in closet.  So Ailsa moved in to Zoe's room last week and is loving it.  She is so proud, she keeps telling everyone about it.  Luckily, Ailsa is a very heavy sleeper because Zoe has continued kicking and crying in the night but so far, Ailsa has slept through it all.  So it looks like this might actually work.  We love seeing the girls share a room.

Getting Ready for the Fall

It's that time of year again- time for all sorts of colds, coughs and pneumonia!  Ailsa has a nasty cough right now that I suspect is the enterovirus everyone is talking about.  It is just a cold to kids like Ailsa.  A nasty cold- she has been coughing and mucousy for over a week now.  But it should hopefully just stay a cold.  Zoe actually had enterovirus three years ago and ended up in hospital with pneumonia.  So far she has not caught what Ailsa has so even though the virus this year is a different strain, hopefully having had it before Zoe will be immune.  We shall see.  

Apparently "baby" woke up with congested lungs this morning and a round of chest physio did not clear her out so she had to get "the mask."  The other "patient" Zoe is getting her tube feeding on Ailsa's bed while Ailsa tends to the sick baby.  At one point Ailsa asked for medicine and I handed her an empty prescription bottle and she said, "Z-O-E.  Mom, this medicine is for Zoe.  You can't play with REAL medicine!"  In my defence, the med bottle was empty!