She's been doing good (knock on wood!) about not getting her fingers down her throat, so we haven't been putting socks on Addy's hands for the past several days. She has been chewing on her thumb a TON lately and has been super drooly, so I'm thinking we have teeth in our future.
Today we went to visit the physical therapist to get a splint made for her left ankle to help hold it in the correct position. Her ankle turns in pretty severely and we've been working on getting it stretched out so that it will go to a normal, neutral position, but it snaps back to the turned in position as soon as you let it go. The splint itself is made out of something called "aquaplast," which is rigid at room temperature, but becomes malleable when placed in a hot water bath. She's starting with wearing it for 30 minutes at a time today and we're supposed to work her up to wearing it for 6-8 hours per day. Once we're up to wearing it that long, we're supposed to try wearing it at night so that it doesn't interfere with the toe sucking that she's supposed to be doing. She needs to wear a sock under the splint so that it doesn't rub directly on her skin, and then we may have to add a second sock over the split to keep her from pulling on the velcro straps. Yes, sometimes my child wears socks on her hands, and sometimes she wears a pair both on the same foot.
In other Addy news, she's been doing really good with eating the rice cereal. Tonight I mixed it with some pear juice, just to spice things up a bit. Soon we'll be trying out real baby food. Oh the mess we will make!
