We have a groggy walker!

As of this weekend, I think we can definitely call Truman a walker. He is now taking up to 12-15 steps at a time. He still prefers to crawl, but we see more walking every day. As for the groggy part, it seems that the appetite stimulant Truman was prescribed had one of the side effects that will keep him from taking it--it completely knocked him out. If he's sleeping through meals, it's not doing its job. We'll try for a few more days, but I think we are back to square one on that.

We're finally starting to feel that Truman will be able to communicate and understand speech in time. With the brain hemorrhages back in NICU, we never know when the other shoe is going to drop, and when he didn't seem to understand speech as he should, we (and the doctors) were getting worried that could be an effect of the brain damage. Just this week, he is clearly asking us to identify things in his books by pointing and making a particular sound. Also, when asked he can correctly point to the moons in "Good Night Moon" now and can identify that the bedside lamp in the book is an "ight" just like the ones in our house. Two or three times lately, he seems to be trying to use his "All Done" sign in his high chair, and he now has about half a dozen phrases he understands and correctly responds to. I think we are finally making some communication progress, so a big weight has been lifted for us these last couple of weeks.