A little more on the physical topic:
Since walking and strength has been so hard for her, she’s not potty trained yet. They say that if your kid can climb stairs one foot after the other, then they have the muscles to hold their pee. So So just hasn’t been ready for that up until recently. So hopefully potty training is just around the corner so that she can start school in the fall. So So has always been a pretty lazy girl as well. Probably stemming from laying around for the first 9 months of her life. She has always liked to lay around and doesn’t like to do anything she doesn’t want to do – like going potty. We’ve played around with potty training her but she’s pretty stubborn. She doesn’t really care if she’s soaked in her urine if she has an accident and she can’t be bribed with treats. She can sleep with a soaked diaper – when she was still drinking bottles she used to soak through a diaper pretty easily – or she just takes her clothes off and goes about her business. We have heard stories about her past, when people would go to visit her as a baby, she would be wearing the same diaper for days at a time… Which is just horrifying… But it makes sense why she doesn’t care to be soaked now.
But we are hopeful that we can find the right potty training tricks for a kiddo like So! We’ll keep you updated.
Another thing in the physical area:
So So has some funny little quirks that are a bit strange and it has been unclear as to what causes them. We call them “ticks” because they seem to be triggered by excitement. We thought they would kind of go away as she grew older and more mobile, but they’ve actually gotten stronger and she’s gained more of them.
Basically when she’s watching something exciting, she holds her breath, opens her mouth real wide, and twirls her hands and feet in circles as if they don’t have bones in them! It’s wild!
More recently, there have been added ticks to that… While holding her breathe and twirling, she will flip her hands through her hair, or scratch the top of her head or her face real quick-like, or even throw one arm way up high.
To me, that seems like something drugs could have caused, because she’s been doing it since the day she was born! It can be so funny at times, but we’re not sure what it is or how we can help her grow out of it.
It could also just be a random and strange thing she does! LOL. We all know kids are little weirdo’s sometimes, so who knows!
Here’s a couple pictures for reference: