Two years old today

Raphael has made it to two years old. Good-on-ya little buddy! After a near disaster only a few days ago, we are proud that he has made it this far.

His fine motor skills are excellent, but his walking is still designed around crashing and he still uses crawling for his main method of transportation.

He is currently on antibiotics because of his inflamed tonsils and this last year seems to have had more than its fair share of hospitalisations.

His communication is disappointing but we are persisting with communication training courses and Auslan. Thankfully, just recently he has started using some more signs.

We now count 11 signs that we are sure that he is using and a further 4 that he might be using:

• finished
• more
• nappy
• ready
• go
• hello/goodbye
• bib
• hearing aid
• time (bed time)
• yummy
• safety belt
  

possible:

• turn around
• car
• pack up
• listen

His vision seems to be stable. He can see most things except if they come from his left and he still short grabs some times.

We have been patching his right eye to try to get as much vision as we can out of his left eye before the window of oportunity passes. He is not keen on having his right eye patched and sometimes hides his face when we tell him that we are going to patch him. But he doesn't complain about it any more and goes about his business as usual while patched. He even tries to walk sometimes, while patched, but he is much less competent this way. I like to think that his left eye's vision is improving but we won't know until we do further vision tests. He is extremely happy when we take his eye patch off.