Spelling Genius??

I don't know that we can declare genius status yet, but we decided to see just how many words Peter is spelling these days, and we get at least 50! He is only 3 years and 4 months old and can spell several 2 letter, 3 letter, 4 letter, 5 letter, 6 letter, and even an 8 letter word accurately. OK, he still isn't jumping or running, and he still isn't eating table food, but what a curiosity is his spelling capability.

The other neat thing we see is how much he has progressed in what he can do physically. We finally captured the backwards bear walk on video before he moves on to some other trick and leaves this one behind. He is now independent on stairs if there is a railing or something else to hold onto. We still hover nearby to catch him if he should stumble, but his confidence and skill are gaining. We are in the process of attempting to learn how to pedal a tiny "Big Wheel" so he can ride in the driveway with his siblings. He is also walking around the block twice a day on many days, versus just once a day, for a total of a mile and a half a day!

One last hurrah is that we are up to 100mL of elecare every two hours now. He can drink the 100mL all in one sitting. He takes 5 feeds like that per day, and then nothing enterally overnight. He is still on TPN and Omegaven 7 nights a week for 12 hours per night, but we are having dreams of reducing some of that now that he is up so far in feeds and still not needing to be vented at night via G tube.

Spelling:


Backwards bear walk: (forgive the protesting halfway through, and the overly-exuberant-mom-talk, I goofed on the first three attempts at videotaping and he was ready to be done the bear walk by the time I finally got the video recording going properly.)