Interesting Adaptation…

Because The Bee is having to wear the arm splints that immobilize her elbows, it has become much harder for her to sign in a regular way. Many signs require the use of your face and others are signed in the air right in front of the face, rather than at arms’ length.

The Bee has come up with a rather ingenious adaptation, which I thought I’d mention because it’s sort of cool…she is using MY face to sign on as a sort of human chalk board. Yesterday, we went to the Farmer’s Market in town, and I had told her there would be peaches and tomatoes there, so she turned around and signed “peach” (a full-fingers stroke down the cheek) on my face. And she’s signed “girl” and “papa” and “thank you” and so forth, borrowing my face to do it. Way cool.

We are technically done with the arm splints…10 days was up on Friday, but R. and I decided to go for two full weeks on the splints and liquid diet, just to be sure. And then maybe more splint-time just at night, when she’s more likely to suck her fingers, for another week or so. We’re being conservative, but the thought of a fistula (hole) opening up drives me to do it. So, she’ll get the splints off during the day and start eating soft foods on Tuesday–pasta and applesauce, here we come.

Yippee for working elbows.