I haven't checked the stats recently so not sure if people still make their way to this blog but sure will do an 'ol update anyway. It has been a few months so sorry :(
Life has been been very busy as we also have our little Dylan. Ava had a good summer but was definitely getting bored by the end of it. This seemed to manifest itself with a lot of
shouting which we didn't enjoy much. We were hopeful that when she started creche and "second steps" class in her school that we would see this improve and hopefully see a start to the walking!
So Ava started her "Second Steps" class 4 days a week and also has creche two afternoons a week. We have seen a massive change (all for the good) in her since she started. She is super close to walking now and is definitely trying to talk more. The extra stimulation has her babbling and standing and generally really moving forward with more words etc. There was an adjustment period where a few tears appeared when she started back but these seem to have gone now (fingers crossed)
On another note the last few months have seen me do some more work with
Down Syndrome Centre doing interviews with new parents discussing the most excellent Liaison Nurse plus general new parent case studies. They also ran a new parent night in Dublin which was well attended with 60+ people.
Got a reminder from a friend this morning about
Punky a new animation series from Monster Animation. You can read more about it
here. It launches early next year. The relevance here is that Punky is the first headlining cartoon character to have Down Syndrome. Punky lives with her Mother, Brother and Granny and gets up to all sorts of adventures and mischief! Sounds fab.
Punky will broadcast next year with twenty episodes, each seven minutes long.
