July 2010 football season

O.k so here we are another football season and our little cheeleader endures her 2nd full season of supporting brothers and dad. Derrick's flag team won Zone and made it to the first round of the play-off's. Dillon's team also made it to the first round of the play-off's.

Progress

It's been a while since I have posted anything. Gonna take you back to June and our family trip the Galveston. Devin's and Derrick's first trip to the beach. We had a blast, got sunburns, and caught a few fish. A little vacation before football season ramps up.

FINALLY!!!

Looks like we are done with surgical procedures for a while. She got her cast off yesterday after 6 weeks. Man you talk about smell...I wanted to gag...lol.
She gets brand new AFO's friday morning and we can really start to strengthen her leg's and teach her to walk.

More procedures

O.k. time to remove the plates from Devin's femur bone's. If you dont know or remember these were placed when she had them broken to shorten them to be able to extend the muscles and tendon's for correction of the knee's. She also had a heel cord lenghting to help her left foot sit flat on the floor when standing.

2nd Birthday!!!

Well just like that, two years have passed. Devin had a great time and a lot of visitor's for her happy day. Little did she understand she had a date with Scottish Rite just four days later.lol

LEARNING TO WALK

Well everyone saw the cool little standing wheelchair. It was time to graduate even from that begin the process of teaching her to walk. She now has what I call a miniature old person walker. This walker will actually teach her how to put one leg in front of the other and really stand on her own weight and hopefully begin to build some muscle in her leg's and ankles. We go Friday, Nov. 6th to see a neurologist and see to what extent her nerve damage is in her leg's from the surgeries. On an unrelated subject we bought her a sit-n-spin and she know's how to sit on it and spin..But this is the prefered method of enjoying this toy....LOL

SWINGING AND SLIDING

So Devin learned what it is to swing and get to slide down a slide. She had a blast as we entertained her during Derrick's baseball banquet.