Molly is busier than ever and keeping us on our toes. She is continuing to work on her stair climbing skills and is now also climbing other things in the house. Yesterday, I was in the kitchen with her, turned to get something from a cabinet and turned back to find her sitting inside the open door to the dishwasher. This was a very scary sight and demonstrated that I cannot look away for even a split second without risking her getting into a dangerous situation.
She has started using the word "No" more and more and is definitely a girl who knows what she does and does not want. She loves to pick up her books and babble - we assume pretending to read them - and is working on becoming cuter by the minute. She is also doing a lot of pretend play now and pretends to drink and pour with cups and also is playing with her little figures and doll house etc. What a fun age this is!
We will be going in to have her try out several wheelchairs, which is an exciting and scary step. This will be her chair for the next 5 years, which is quite a long time and a big $5k commitment (most of it paid for by insurance). She will most likely also need a power wheelchair within the next 5 years, but I don't think she needs that quite yet. We still need to research and make sure insurance will pay for both. If not, we need to have insurance pay for the power ($15-$20k) and pay for the manual out of pocket. Definitely something we don't want to learn about the hard way.
She is a very fun little girl and we are having a blast playing with her and watching her grow and learn.
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