Bye-bye Summer and Hello to Funny Faces!

We just spent our last summer holiday weekend at the beach! Mama, Papa, all the Songers and us went to the condo for an enjoyable long weekend! Toby and Daisy spent every morning together at the beach! They played so contently as they scooped up sand, built mounds of sand, ran into the water in search of fish, etc. They really had a great time!

Toby is taller! Last week we went to Gainesville for another height adjustment on the prosthesis. Our check up wasn't for another 6 weeks - making any adjustments 3 months apart- but our little growing Toby couldn't wait. Paul added 1/8 inch making a total of almost one inch taller since May! Now he's standing tall and running like a mad man! It'll be interesting to see if we can make it 6 months without getting leg #3!

Toby has really enjoyed school. Last Friday when I dropped him off, he just gave us a sad face but didn't cry. When I picked him up, he told me all about his snack that he made - which was a mixture of pretzels, animal cookies, M&M's, and goldfish! Sounds delicious to me! Here's Toby's teachers... Ms. Mindy on the left and Ms. Dawnadee on the right:) They are terrific!

Toby has been talking up a storm! He's repeating so much of what we say....which is a little scary! He's knows his colors blue and yellow. He pants like a dog with his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth when he sees a dog...too funny! He's signing more - when we tell him we love him, he blows us a kiss! He's crazy about reading and he loves to sing to us. His favorite books right now are Pajama Time and Brown Bear, Brown Bear! He also loves the Very Hungry Caterpillar book with his "Wiggly Woo" little worm to go with it!

The best is...which makes Papa very proud... is that when he points to a boat in a book, we ask him, "Toby - what do you do on a boat?", and he responds with a fishing pole motion of both hands together, back behind his shoulder, and throws his hands forward. Hilarious! We don't have any idea where he got that but making the correlation is super funny and super smart:)

"Toby, can you make a funny face?" That's where we get our entertainment these days. We simply ask that question, and this is what we get!

Prosthesis Tidbit of the Week:

How much can you adjust the height (insert spacers) on the prosthesis before you have to get a new one? Well...just so happens we found out this answer last Thursday in Gainesville. Toby's current Prosthestis can only be heightened 2 inches before the screw would not reach from the foot to the shell of the leg. Toby, since May, has had 1 inch total of spacers put in. Toby will either outgrow the height allowance for the prothesis or he will outgrow the width at the top of the leg...which ever one comes first - only time will tell:)

HAVE A GREAT WEEK EVERYONE!