Molly dressed up as a "Meow"
Molly having some fun in her purple loaner chair:
We have been having a great week. Our pumpkin carving party was a great success. We all had a great time and Molly had a BALL! My mom (Mimi) flew out yesterday and we had a great visit.
We got a different power chair to demo on Monday and she really seems to like it. I had them make it a bit faster, which might be the difference. This chair can lower to the floor so that she could get in and out by herself as she gets older. She drove it a couple hundred feet yesterday, which was a huge accomplishment! I was getting her out of the car today and she said "chair, please"!! Wow! What an exciting moment! I think she is really ready to have this independent mobility. It is hard because it will be 6-8 months from now before she will have a chair of her own. I hope that it is on the shorter end.
Today was Halloween and we dressed Molly up as a cat. We went to a neighbors house for a pre-trick-or-treating get together and we drove her chair thinking we would be heading right back to the house. We went to look at the decorations at one of the houses and then all of the kids were out to trick-or-treat. She latched on to this one little boy (Zack) and we followed them around for about 20 houses!! I never anticipated her having the stamina to be out for that long. She even said "Trick-Treat" when prompted :). We didn't actually go up to the door at many houses, but she had a ball following the big kids around. We came home and Jim greeted us with the bowl of candy and Molly said "Trick-Treat" (unprompted) - adorable!
What a fun little girl she is! It was so fun being out with her in her chair, especially with other little kids. She didn't drive much once it was dark, but now and again she would drive herself 2-12 feet and that is a whole new world for all of us. Keep your fingers crossed that we don't have to wait too long for her to get her own!
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