Tessa Has A Surprise For You!!!

Tessa has been an amazing fighter since the day she was born. She is so full of spunk and is going to do what she wants when she wants. I always joke that someone forgot to give her the memo that she has DS.

She has always met her milestone close to when she should have, and always did it in pure Tessa style. I always wanted her to be walking by the time we take her to Disney World in October of 2013, she will be 2 1/2 by then. I had told PT/OT this was my goal with her, and I became saddened and a bit discouraged when they said  "most children with DS walk between 2 and 4 yrs. That I shouldn't get my hopes up." I felt crushed because I had never heard that, and the thought of her not walking till then was hard to accept.
We had PT/OT and I did most of the things they said to do, but I also just treated her like I did the boys, and did what I did with the older 2. She sat up when she was ready, she never crawled like babies do, she had her own way of doing it, and she didn't care what others thought. She eventually learned to pull up to things and walk along them. Then one day she stood up in the middle of the floor, I was so surprised!! She would also take 2 to 3 step, and we have been working hard to get her to do more. Sometimes she would do a few more, and I couldn't wait to be able to say she was walking.
Yay Tessa!!!


Little did I know my little girl had more big surprises up her sleeve.....

PT/OT came today, and they officially declared what I have dreamed about and wished for since Tessa was born.

TESSA IS WALKING!!!!!!!

It brings tears to my eyes to even type it. Tessa is only 15 months and 1 week old. She walks across the living room, she stands up, sometimes with toys in her hands and walks. When she is feeling stubborn or is tired she does her version of crawling, but she is walking more and more.This just started to be a constant thing in just the last week or so.




 Watch out world here I come!!!