My horse's name is Jasper!! "I love it." Nash often says this after he is done riding! The ladies on the sides are volunteers. The PT is in the back and a volunteer is leading the horse. It is a wonderful experience for him and has proved to help loosen his legs. It is called Miracles in Motion for a reason! It is truly amazing.Thursday, June 25, 2009
Hippo Therapy Cont...
My horse's name is Jasper!! "I love it." Nash often says this after he is done riding! The ladies on the sides are volunteers. The PT is in the back and a volunteer is leading the horse. It is a wonderful experience for him and has proved to help loosen his legs. It is called Miracles in Motion for a reason! It is truly amazing.
Hippo Therapy
The summer of Hippo Therapy ended with Nash being asked to ride for a group of therapist with a theraputic trainer from CA. Nash LOVES riding. In fact today he cried the entire time... 35 minutes. I was going slightly nuts. He stopped the moment he sat on the horse. Not another peep out of him. Praise God! I was hoping he would behave since 20 plus people were watching and the trainer/therapist from CA was showing techniques and using Nash. He did GREAT!
I took some pictures last week and thought I would share. Hipp Therapy is AWESOME for Nash. His legs get a great stretch and he sits straighter on the horse then anywhere else. It amazes me. We have a little cowboy in our midst.
Tomorrow we head for Spirit Lake. Yeah a vacation. Nate gets to come for some of it which is good. We are looking forward to getting away.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Recent Pictures to go with post below!!
Edible Playdough!! Yum!! Entertainment for at least an hour!! Way to go mom!!
Little hard to see, but look closely that that is Me... Nash on Shamrock... My first ever horse ride! Now I am a REAL Cowboy!! Yeee Haw!!!
This is the life!! Chilling, wathing a video and having a snack, while mom waits on me!!Random Updates!! It's been awhile!
Yeah... Been pretty bad about updating!! Been a little crazy around here... After the hospital, we actually got away from home a couple times!! Yippee! Nash and I went to Pella for a couple days. Great visit! Nash asked everyone for something to eat while visiting various people's houses. Cookies, Crackers, and Cake... Everyone was happy to feed him and HE LOVED IT! Sugar high for a couple days. He got a rude awakening when he got home. No sweets!
Then off to Lake City for Jordanne's graduation party where Nash got to ride Sammy, Jordanne's horse! Nate got to go with us since he doesn't work Sundays and it was Memorial day. Casey rode along and she might not want to ride with the Crazy Kuehls again!! It was great to be home. Nash even got to ride in the skid loader with grandpa and sleep with grandma while Nate and I want to a bed and breakfast. Yep... Made it one night without Nash!
Then we went to Honey Creek Resort with Gpa and Gma Kuehl for two nights. We biked and swam a lot! Nash walked the halls and loved the water. He was in HOT TUB HEAVEN! Now says Hot tub and water pretty much every day!
So we traveled A LOT in May... It was wonderful! So great to get out of the house. Breath fresh air and let Nash see the world. He loved every minute of it. He loves going "Bye bye" as he calls it.
He is trying to talk more and is walking at times up to 50 steps. That is on a good day, but it is WONDERFUL!
He says... "I love it!"; "I have sharp teeth" (from his new favorite book)!. "Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni" Yankee Doodle is his new fav song. "I'm going to tickle!!" (when I am going to tickle him he says it for me!) "I love you..." Ahhhh I LOVE this one! He also says parts of his prayers, and loves singing parts of old country songs with Nate. Basically Nash fills in words here and there. Very funny!
He can say his ABCs all by himself, count to 20, count to 10 in spanish, and can identify all ABC and numbers to 10. Shapes and 8 to 10 colors. He is doing well in academics and LOVES learning new things. He struggles in creative play. Wants nothing to do with it. We try, but books and music are more his thing. Hoping and praying that his brain develops in that area. Still real orally fixated on things, which is for babies. He still explores his new environment and new items with his mouth. Hopefully he kicked that before school or he is going to get lots of unwanted germs! YUCK!
Eye patching is down to 2 to 4 hours a day and holding off on surgery in July for now. He is indeed using his right eye... We knew it and his new eye doc agrees! SWEET.... I love when doctor listen!
Nash had HippoTherapy today and loved riding the horse once again. He even got to ride a speedy horse. Basically rode a little bigger horse with a little faster walk. He starts aquatic therapy next week. I have a feeling he is going to Love it!!
I better be off to bed. Another busy day awaits us. We are very happy for this great weather and the freedoms of outside. We have really been stepping back and looking at all the little things in life this last month that God has blessed us with and for the first time in my life I have really focused on the beauty of spring and all the new life and fresh air. Wow God is good!
One step at a time... Moving forward and SOOOO thankful that God gave us Nash! I look at him often with tears of joy in my eyes and think just how wonderful it is to have such a blessing who has made me slow down, step back, and take nothing for granted. The little things in life are amazing. God often shows me through Nash. I have never seen so much love, grace, peace, joy, and determination in one person as I do our son. I am sooo incerdiable thankful for him.
Then off to Lake City for Jordanne's graduation party where Nash got to ride Sammy, Jordanne's horse! Nate got to go with us since he doesn't work Sundays and it was Memorial day. Casey rode along and she might not want to ride with the Crazy Kuehls again!! It was great to be home. Nash even got to ride in the skid loader with grandpa and sleep with grandma while Nate and I want to a bed and breakfast. Yep... Made it one night without Nash!
Then we went to Honey Creek Resort with Gpa and Gma Kuehl for two nights. We biked and swam a lot! Nash walked the halls and loved the water. He was in HOT TUB HEAVEN! Now says Hot tub and water pretty much every day!
So we traveled A LOT in May... It was wonderful! So great to get out of the house. Breath fresh air and let Nash see the world. He loved every minute of it. He loves going "Bye bye" as he calls it.
He is trying to talk more and is walking at times up to 50 steps. That is on a good day, but it is WONDERFUL!
He says... "I love it!"; "I have sharp teeth" (from his new favorite book)!. "Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni" Yankee Doodle is his new fav song. "I'm going to tickle!!" (when I am going to tickle him he says it for me!) "I love you..." Ahhhh I LOVE this one! He also says parts of his prayers, and loves singing parts of old country songs with Nate. Basically Nash fills in words here and there. Very funny!
He can say his ABCs all by himself, count to 20, count to 10 in spanish, and can identify all ABC and numbers to 10. Shapes and 8 to 10 colors. He is doing well in academics and LOVES learning new things. He struggles in creative play. Wants nothing to do with it. We try, but books and music are more his thing. Hoping and praying that his brain develops in that area. Still real orally fixated on things, which is for babies. He still explores his new environment and new items with his mouth. Hopefully he kicked that before school or he is going to get lots of unwanted germs! YUCK!
Eye patching is down to 2 to 4 hours a day and holding off on surgery in July for now. He is indeed using his right eye... We knew it and his new eye doc agrees! SWEET.... I love when doctor listen!
Nash had HippoTherapy today and loved riding the horse once again. He even got to ride a speedy horse. Basically rode a little bigger horse with a little faster walk. He starts aquatic therapy next week. I have a feeling he is going to Love it!!
I better be off to bed. Another busy day awaits us. We are very happy for this great weather and the freedoms of outside. We have really been stepping back and looking at all the little things in life this last month that God has blessed us with and for the first time in my life I have really focused on the beauty of spring and all the new life and fresh air. Wow God is good!
One step at a time... Moving forward and SOOOO thankful that God gave us Nash! I look at him often with tears of joy in my eyes and think just how wonderful it is to have such a blessing who has made me slow down, step back, and take nothing for granted. The little things in life are amazing. God often shows me through Nash. I have never seen so much love, grace, peace, joy, and determination in one person as I do our son. I am sooo incerdiable thankful for him.
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