Sooner Start started

Today the state early intervention program came to our house for an initial screening on my Josie. Basically he asked me a huge range of questions from my pregnancy to her favorite toys. After about an hour and half we were done. It was Josie's nap time but she was the sweetest, most adorable girl ever! She was dancing and "da-da-da"-ing the whole time. In the areas of socialization, personality, and fine motor skills Josie was at the very top of the scale. It was in communication and gross motor skills that she was lacking. Her communication was in the mid-range area not the intervention area. It was low because she does not have another word besides "da-da" and does not yet point at things. Her gross motor was VERY low, but we kinda all expected that huh? 5 or 6 questions were about walking or taking steps and since she is not doing that---the answers were obviously "no". So all this to say he is going to send out the Evaluation Team to actually work with Josie. The earliest they can come is the end of May (2 weeks) and then the beginning of June we have to go the office for a hearing screen (not that he or I think anything is wrong with her hearing but that is just a formal part of the evaluation). By the time this all comes around I won't be surprised if Josie hasn't taken a step already. She has changed leaps and bounds since her first birthday, she is pulling up and crawling on her hands and knees and all. So there is the update. Good things today. And yes Grandmas, he did think Josie was gorgeous. He loved her smile. I took some fun pics tonight. SO adorable:

"What's in here?":

"Look Momma, I'm in!":

Here she was kicking her feet so hard she was lifting herself off the floor. Josie was cracking up. Could she be any more adorable? I think not.