The start of the final week in Alabama was marked with the last day without therapy. To mark the occasion we revisited Maya's favourite place, the petting farm at Oak Mountain State Park. There is always fun to be had when you mix children with animals. Maya's favourite this time were the cockerals; she was intent on watching them crow. However, her low boredom threshold meant she never saw them do it as she was always walking away to some other temporary attraction when they did their thing. The obvious result was that Maya spent the best part of half an hour walking backwards and forwards to the cockerals without actually having heard them crow, it was almost as though the cockerals knew the game and were happy to play along, very funny.
To finish off the day we decided to indulge ourselves with some nice Indian food. We hunted down the only Indian restaurant in town, and whilst driving around waiting for our take-away to be made we engaged in conversation with a police officer who pulled us over. We were close to all being locked up in 'County Jail' because the police officer was not sure Sanj was allowed to drive in the US with his British driving license. Strange, considering the fact that millions of tourists do it every year and that the car rental firm would not have provided us with a car without the appropriate documentation! Luckily he gave us the benefit of the doubt and we were allowed to go on our merry way.
We managed to get home without further international incidents, and although the Indian food was not so great Maya said "Du-du" (Punjabi for milk) and "Hi, papa", so we had a great evening!
After being away for 10 days Sanj believes Maya has made progress in that time. Whilst the finer motor skill development is less obvious, he believes the improvement with gross motor skills of the right arm and hand are more pronounced, and you can't have one without the other. It is not so easy to see when you are with her everyday. 'Good job' we have also taken video footage every few days to keep a record of her progress.
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Who is teaching her Punjabi ?
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ReplyDeleteWe hope you have a great final few days in therapy. Big kiss from the Baloghjes!
Maya is so lucky she is surrounded by three languages and i'm so proud she said a word in Punjabi! We'll she'll be surrounded by much more of it next week although even most of us wont be able to understand the older generation as they sing their traditional punjabi wedding songs! Cant wait to see you all and congrats on what looks like a successful trip to Birmingham Alabama! I'd like to comment on the rest of the blogs as it is sooooooo funny but we can catch up about it next week! Love you all. Rina xxx
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