He CRAWLS :)

Yes he did, he really crawled :) yesterday when his daddy nipped out, he was just sitting on the floor then leaned forward onto his hands which he's done loads, but went over onto his hands and knees, which he's also done as that's the position he gets into to sit up from lying down, i seen him out the corner of my eye, i seen his knees moving so i turned to watch and he crawled about a foot then turned and sat on his bum :) needless to say i was VERY excited and he loved my excitement so proceeded to do it again while laughing, and then i was doing it with him to encourage him to move a bit further and he did, he crawled the length of our living room :)

Funny thing is the physio lady was out in the morning and she said he probably wouldn't crawl now as he's found his bum shuffling to get him around and will be walking very soon so would probably never crawl as wouldn't need to, well i bet he heard her and just had to be his little defiant self :) at 18 months old our warrior crawled, we're just so proud of him and he couldn't wait to show daddy when he got back in :)

we had the SALT back out also yesterday, after being AWOL since october, never really touched upon his 'non eating' just asked what he will eat etc which is nothing, told her about his frustration at not being able to communicate as he has a very lot to say but can't and so gets frustrated easy, she's going to draw him up his very own personalised Makaton board so we can learn to sign with him, he knows a few already but she's going to draw us up words that are personal for him, she said normally it would be food words but as that doesn't apply to Lewis it won't be any good, so i'm looking forward to being able to communicate more clearly with Lewis and hopefully ease his frustrations, well some of them anyway.

He is showing much more interst in food, still won't touch or eat anything but is straight to us if we have something, trying to put his face in it to smell it and want's to just poke at it, but not hold it or touch it properly and won't taste it, just shouts NOOO and shakes his head if you ask him if he wants a bit.

Still in amazement at the difference his physio boots have made and the Physio women was really impressed with his progress, she says he probably won't need a 2nd pair of special boots but rather just some special insoles for normal shoes. He keeps giving me heart failures with his shenanigans though, he can climb up onto his little rocking chair thing and onto the top of his toybox at the windowsill AND get himself back down, which is his new trick lately and i keep thinking he's going to fall. He can climb onto his little ride on car by himself, found that out when he appeared from the side of the sofa sitting on it and then scooted across the floor on it with a big cheesy grin and we're like how the heck did he get on that lol, and now pulls himself up on his walker and walks along with it, he came all the way to the kitchen from the living room all by himself today and he is cruising like a trooper around EVERYTHING :) he still lacks some confidence but won't be long till he's walking around being me all by himself :)