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Day 2 at the gym, Dives 6 & 7

Dive #6 went well.  We had a new diving buddy this morning.  A older lady who was a doctor.  Will introduced her to Doc McStuffins (of course!).  The dive/space flight went well.  I think Doc Judy liked Doc McStuffins!

Day 2 at the gym was full of new things!  Will had a great day trying out some different activities.  I have selected some of my favorites to share with you!

One of my suggestions to Miss Tiffany was what I call the Mowgli walk.  You know, the boy from The Jungle Book who walks on his hands and feet like a bear (which is apparently what it's really called, the bear walk).  Will gets up on his hands and feet quite a bit at home, but doesn't move.  I thought it would be a good way for him to get around instead of crawling everywhere.  Tiffany agreed!
Isn't that cool!  He said it was hard work, but by the time he made it to the table and back he was getting much better at it!

He Mowgli walked to the table to have a snack, which he had standing up against the table.  Then Miss Tiffany had him do this activity.  For those of you who have been following Will's KC trips, this is pretty amazing progress.  If you haven't seen those video or want to go back and look, please do!  They are on this blog.  Go back to the first session last May.  It's truly remarkable!

Now for my favorite video, 2 actually!  Please forgive the camera work on these, the angle is a little tricky.  Will is walking on a treadmill! How exciting is that!  The treadmill is set up in a cage that allows Will to be "hooked" up to 8 bungees, imagine a spider with 4 sets of 2 legs.  This allows Will to stand without assistance from Tiffany.  He has worked with these bungees and cages before, but never this one...with a TREADMILL!!!  I was silently jumping up and down.  It was pretty cool watching him walk.  He was pretty proud of himself too.  See for yourself!

Then to make it even better, this is what happened next...

Isn't that just the best!  He was so proud and happy!  I loved hearing him say that.  This is going to be one of his goals, so you'll see his improvement over the coming weeks.  Aren't you so excited for that!  That's why we do the fundraising that we do.  This therapy is amazing.  There are so many opportunities for Will here.  Who would have thought he'd be walking on a treadmill!  I love it!

Dive #7 was a quiet one.  We had the spaceship to ourselves.  Will once again watched Doc and when that was over Miss Cheryl surprised him with Mike the Knight!  He was very happy!  The dive went along just fine.  When it was time to take his space helmet off he said "All done? Huzzah!"  For those of you who don't know, that is Mike the Knight talk for Hurray!  It was pretty cute!


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