Over a year later with computer crashes I've finally managed to access Christopher's blog again!

Christopher is now 18 and that has brought a lot of changes. One of them being he's finally reached puberty and has had a growth spurt. He's possibly taller than me now and his feet have grown. In the past his shoes wore out..... he didn't grow out of them! Since the New Year he has also had AFOs in a hope to correct his feet that have been getting worse , especially since his growth spurt.We have been asking for them for years but only succeeded late last year. The reason for the refusal before was it was not felt Christopher would walk in them but he stood up and walked with no problems as soon as they were put on! We have had a lot of teething problems but the physiotherapist is very pleased with them!

Christopher learns to shuffle up onto a higher seat

I taught Christopher the previous week to tilt back and climb onto a higher seat when we were out and there was nowhere else to sit and almost a week later he transferred the skill all on his own. He did this shuffling himself onto the stage about 4 times in the evening!

Christopher starts with PECS

This was the very start of Christopher working with PECS. We asked him to ask for every piece of banana! Usually now we just ask him if he wants a banana or something else.

Guitar solo!

Christopher loves music and sometimes likes to play with his Dad's guitar! He doesn't appreciate the phone interrupting his recital!