A couple of weeks ago, our family attended the 2008 NOAH National Conference in Las Vegas. I was getting ready to write this post and I was having trouble remembering everything I learned at the conference. We had a great time and I learned a lot and met a lot of people, but honestly, it’s kind of like this picture above…a big blurrrrr… Continue reading “2008 NOAH Conference”
This is HILARIOUS! It is Lyra dancing, singing, and playing a pitch pipe! She is such a ham! 😛
These were taken by our friend Heather Kirkwood. 🙂
Nothing can compare to seeing and talking to adults with albinism and other parents of children with albinism. Continue reading “Cause Ya Gotta Have Friends”
Most parents know how hard it can be to get your child to “perform” on command, but I decided to give it a shot. 😛 Here is Lyra showing off some of the words she’s learned over the last couple of months. She has been receiving regular speech therapy for the last month. Lyra even mentions her speech therapists name, Scott, in the video…hmmmmm… I swear it was just a coincidence. 😀
This was an idea I got from Lyra’s TVI. I took pictures of a variety of toys and objects that Lyra was familiar with or played with regularly. To make them more durable, I taped them to poster board a cut them out. Then I put them into the plastic sleeves of some old photo albums I had, cut them out and then taped the end. They were those free photo albums they used to give me when I’d have film developed at Wal-mart. Continue reading “Homemade Flashcard Activity”
These are some of the milestones Lyra met over this past year. They are not in any particular order. There have been so many! I don’t want to forget them. These are all I could remember. I’ll add more as I think of them. 🙂
pulls string to move toy along
open cabinets and drawers
kick a ball
throw a ball
climb a ladder
slide down a slide
push self forwards and backwards on riding toy
walk forwards, backwards, and sideways
Continue reading “Milestones 1-2 years”
I finally purchased some of the shampoo I had heard about to deal with Lyra’s “dingy“ hair. It’s called Shimmer Lights, and you can buy it from a beauty supply store, Sally Beauty Supply in my case. On the back of the bottle, it says the product “Brightens white and gray hair, Shampoos away yellow, and Tones down brassiness.”
It really did work quite well on Lyra’s hair. Her hair looks a lot brighter and whiter and clean and shiny. 🙂 It’s pollution free, at least for now.
One thing you definitely need to do the first time you use it, is dilute it a little. As you can see in the picture below, this shampoo comes out of the bottle in very DARK purple color. If you’re not careful, your child could end up with purple hair. I had to rinse Lyra’s hair multiple times to get all the purple out. For now, I am just going to use it on her hair once a week. We’ll see if that works to maintain things.
Because of privacy issues, I have removed some of the document links in the Early Intervention section. If you would like to take a look at any of these files, please send me an email and I may be able to send them to you via email.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Mashawna
I just want to take a moment to say Thank You, to everyone who has ever left comments for me, either on my Guestbook or after individual posts. I can’t tell you how very very much I appreciate the those comments. Your comments have all been incredibly encouraging. It really motivates me to know that this site I created is serving the purpose for which it was intended…to help other parents. 🙂
Continue reading “Thank You, Thank You, Thank You”
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