Ear Doctors, Park, and Occupational Therapy

Brandon had an appointment yesterday to get fitted for his new hearing aid, and FM trainer. An FM trainer is like a radio station for Brandon and his teacher alone. She can talk directly to Brandon through his hearing aid without everyone hearing her. We drove over to Goshen, and finally found the right building. He got to see what the inside of his ear looked like after the doctor was done taking the mold, and he got to pick out the colors for his new hearing aid. Red and blue swirled, Spiderman's colors. Both Brandon and Alyssa did pretty well while we were at the doctors office so I told them that we could go to the park when we got home. So we picked up his sisters from Grandmas house, and Dad too and we all went to the park.

Only my daughter brings a coloring book and pen to the park. Then precedes to color, while everyone else is playing.









Here we have coaxed her onto the swing, but she still has her coloring book.











Here are the twins posing for the camera =)












And finally, my favorite picture of Alyssa and James sans coloring book and pen.


So, while James and the girls stayed at the park to play for a little while I took Brandon to occupational therapy. Brandon loves occupational therapy, he has a blast for the hour that he is there. Plus, Katie filled the orange pop slot on the pop machine so Brandon could have an orange pop after he was done with his therapy. We are still working on meeting his sensory needs, but we have started seeing small improvements in him. I can not thank the friend (she knows who she is) who recommended the Therapy Place to us enough. I think it is going to be a big help for Brandon so thank you, thank you, thank you =) So, on with some pictures of some of the things that Brandon gets to do while at occupational therapy.


This is Brandon with his "football pads" on. All of the pieces are connected with rubber bungee pieces, it is to activate his core. After he gets into this getup he is ready to pogo. This is a suspended pogo stick that Brandon loves.








This swing has a wide platform on the bottom. Brandon loves to swing and then "fall" off in a crash mat that has been put in just the right place.






Okay, so that was our busy day. We got everything accomplished, and we had some fun while we were at. Plus, I was able to take some pictures so everyone could see some recent pictures of the kids. Alls well that ends well.

Lisa