Isabelle Bentley

Getting closer & closer to walking! She'll even walk holding only 1 hand.

Isabelle's newest word is "all done" which she pronounces "ee dah". You might be thinking - how is that close? So, first, I am not sure it IS a word.  There are two kinds of words kids say: things they repeat but don't know the meaning of (imitation) and words they know the meaning for. I am 100% confident she is repeating it. I know it doesn't sound like "all done" but when Jack first said all done it was "ah dah". When I say "all done" she ALWAYS says "ee dah". And 90% of the time she has the same hand motion for it. Now, she doesn't necessarily say it when she's done doing something means it's likely imitation but she does sometimes. It's mixed. As long as a kid is saying something consistently - it doesn't matter how close it is to the actual word. Same with signing.  She follows directions really well too. 

Isabelle got her 4th tooth! Top left!

Walmart is letting us fundraiser outside o August 27 from roughly 8a-4p. We'll be outside the pharmacy entrance. Looking for people to sign up in 2 hr shifts if possible. ALl the money raised will be donated to MDSC for team Isabelle. 

We are having a fundraiser at UNOS in Millbury on September 6 & 7. If you come in and bring this ticket/coupon or tell them you're there for this fundraiser, they will donate up to 20% of the bill to the MDSC buddy walk in honor of Team Isabelle. 

Isabelle started a new playgroup today at Kennedy Donovan Center. She will be bused from daycare to there once a week for 2 hours and has a 1:1 aide. 

Isabelle and Jackson have now been to the same number of states: 16, plus D.C. Maine was the last state she needed to catch up.  We stayed in wells, ME at Carriage House Motel Cottages  & Suites. They had a playground, shuffleboard, a pool and a hot tub. Pretty cool. We first hit at the York's Wild Kingdom. Jack won his first stuffed animal plying the game where you shoot water into the hole. He had fun.   Jack played mini golf for the first time.  He loved the donuts at Congdons. We still found time to hit up the home depot thing where Jack made a truck.  And of course we went to the Trolley Museum. Jack now loves trains - we bought him a train table & set.   We chose to try Old Orchard Beach. It was Izzie's first time in the Atlantic.   And finally we walked along the Marginal Way. Gorgeous. 

Izzie got her orthotics today! They were specially molded to her feet in June. 

Isabelle spiked a random fever that came on around 8:30 and got to 103.3 so I took her to the ER.  She also has a weird rash and what I think were two small febrile seizures. It could have also been rigors. They checked her urine and concluded it was a virus not bacterial. She left with a 98.4 and hasn't had a fever since.