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Dive 35- Today Will took something new into the chamber with him.  A few days ago he received a special package from his very good friend Evalena.  Evalena knows Will very well and knew just what to send him!  A Toy Story Look and Find book.  He loves it!  This morning in the hotel room he was looking at it and wouldn't leave it so I suggested he take it to the spaceship.  He looked for the hidden pictures the whole time I usually rub his ears and then a few minutes after the space helmet was on too! Normal ear rubbing time.  No ear rubbing, just finding Woody and friends! Space Helmet on...still looking for pictures!  This is usually Doc McStuffins time... don't worry, she came later! Thank you Miss Evalena for an awesome gift.  Will said it was "really cool"!  (I love his new vocabulary!) Day 15 at the gym.  The final day of Will's three week Intensive suit session.  Miss Tiffany was working with Jordan again when ...

Will finally got a good night's sleep!  Yay!  He got a solid 11 hours last night.  I hope he can do that again tonight! Dive 33- another laid back dive.  We are starting to miss Mason!  I hope she's back tomorrow.  I think she's trying to enjoy her summer too!  Diving takes a lot of time and there's not much time for activities in between.  Unless you're just going next door, of course! Day 14 in the gym...Will had a little more energy today, but it is the final days of the three week intensive session and he's just tired.  The little guy sets the bar so high for himself, breaking through goals early on, that there is no way he can keep up at that pace for the entire 3 weeks.  After all he's only human!  Today was much better than yesterday though. After Tiffany got Will's suit on him she said something like this, Ok Will, get in Alfie and head to the treadmill.  Will said, "Actually, I just walk around the room in Alfie...

This lack of good sleep routine is really starting to catch up with Will.  This morning's first dive went well.  Disney Jr on the television, we were solo for this one.  Will watched Doc McStuffins and Sophia The First during the flight.  No problems.  When we got to the gym Miss Tiffany was still working with Will's new friend Jordan.  Will enjoyed cheering Jordan on, and Jordan enjoyed showing Will what he could do.  It was pretty cute to watch them.   Mr. Jordan left and now it was Will's turn.  He already had a glazed over look in his eyes.  Poor baby is just tired!  Will started out tall kneeling at the mirror.  This was ok, not his greatest work though.  Then came standing with canes  He did quite well on this task.  The goal is how long he can stand with only one hand on the canes.  Watch for yourself! That was 1 minute 10 seconds if you didn't count.  Pretty amazing.  Last time we were...

It's day 2 of week 3 and I think it's starting to kick in for Mr. Will.  He's a pretty tired boy these days.  Partly because he's not getting to sleep very early.  I'm not sure what's going on.  I tuck him in around 7:50-8:00.  He seems like he's going right to sleep, then about 20 minutes later he's calling for me.  Tonight it was 9:00 before I could get him to calm down.  He told me he didn't like to sleep.  I think he needs his own bed! Anyway,  Dive 29 and 30 went well.  No problems.  Doc McStuffins playing both times, well this morning I convinced him to watch Disney Jr but guess what was on... Doc!  Good thing it's a cute show!  We were solo at both dives today. Day 12 Will started the day with his own game.  He was in Zipper (his wheelchair) when he entered the gym.  He saw the tub of bowling pins and had "a great idea"!  He rolled over to the tub, but a bowling pin between his legs and then brou...

A quick visit from the family included a train ride, the zoo and a trip to Will's favorite fountain (of this trip)!  Now it's back to work!  Will is really making some great progress this session.  It makes me so happy to see the smile on his face when he accomplishes something he's been working so hard to achieve.   As always, he still has a long way to go.  On the other hand he has come A SUPER, LONG way! So for my first amazing video.  Will's favorite part of therapy.  Watch this video.  Just looks like the rest of his jumping videos, right....wrong!  Check out this progress and look at the proud little smile he has! Balance is tricky for Will.  It's something that challenges every part of his day.  The more control he can gain, the better off he'll be.  He has made so much progress in this area.  Tiffany and I often talk about the first session (last May) when Will couldn't be left alone sitting ...

I can't believe we're at the end of week 2!  Will is making beautiful progress.  I can't wait for you to see these videos!  It was a great Friday.  Both dives went well.  No tears, no problems.  Easy Peasy!  The gym went well too...really well! Will invited Ben to work in the gym again today, so he did!  Ben was sore when he got up this morning.  Miss Cheryl told him the best thing he could do was get back in the gym and workout again today.  I guess he took her advice.  He went through all the same exercises from yesterday with very little complaining.  :) Will worked hard too.  Check out this picture.  Do you see anything AMAZING??? Notice he's not touching the canes...on either side!!!  Now look at Tiffany's face.  It was an awesome moment.  Well, you see for yourself... The best part is that he wasn't instructed to do that, it was just did it!  Then he didn't fall down after he reali...

Today started out much nicer.  Will was still eating Cheerios when we got to the gym so Miss Cheryl told him he could take them in the spaceship.  This worked wonderfully!  He wanted me to rub his ears (our usual technique to get his ears to pop) for a couple minutes and then went back to eating his Cheerios.  The chewing did the work for him (and me!)  Miss Cathy is back today, but no Mason.  Doc McStuffins is once again his video of choice! Day 9 at the gym. Yesterday Tiffany and I were talking about Ben and how he couldn't relate to what Will went through in a day in the gym.  It's not that Ben was thinking it was easy work for Will.  He knows how hard Will works.  I don't think any of us realize how truly hard he does work though.  So today Miss Tiffany gave Ben a little glimpse of what that might be like.  (although Ben got more breaks that Will does in a 3 hr session) Ben was happy to have something to do.  I think al...