A fun week and yesterdays P.T.

As we recovered from Willem's ear infection and Ben's pneumonia we managed to have a really fun week! On Tuesday we went to the Turtle Back Zoo with our best Buddies!!! It was great fun as all the boys are really into animals! Willem walked around the zoo some on his own which is so wonderful how independent he is becoming! As you can imagine we are quite a site growling at the bears and howling at the wolves!! On friday we went in to the city to go to the American Museum of natural history~ another favorite, with our best buddies and cousins!! Not only do we love animals, those extinct dinosaurs are really a hit with us as well! Both Willem and Benjamin amaze me with there knowledge of the names of the dinosaurs nothing like hearing Willem say Parasaurolophus! Sunday was Michael's 36th birthday and besides animals and dino's the boy's LOVE a birthday!! We had fun as my parents past through town on there way to St. Martin. We sang happy birthday a bunch of times, hey it was a great weekend!!
Then there was yesterdays P.T we had a women from the Coalition for the blind and visually impaired, a mobility specialist! Hoping she could give us some input into Willem's "clumsiness" he wipes out a lot walking around. He is so tentative on the stairs ~ not that he can't do them because he has and does when he wants to! The good news is that she really did not have much to say except how smart and adorable he is! Basically the more mature he becomes the stronger he will become and less clumsy not thinking that his current issue can be blamed on his eyes!! She felt that he is on the right track... So all is good with the Wuebbens!!

what a weekend!!!

It was a pretty crazy one!!! Benjamin had a fever all weekend and yesterday afternoon he started screaming that his chest hurt to much to breath and at 7:30 we were off to the emergency room and at 11p.m. a chest x-ray confirmed that he had pneumonia! So he is on antibiotics and already feeling better this evening. And willem was complaining his ears hurt and today the doctor said he had a double ear infection ~ also on antibiotics! Hopefully it will be the last cold of the season! On saturday as Ben was out on the couch willem and mike were playing outside and he took some really cute pictures of willem with the tulips here are some! I am going to keep this entry short as i am off to my Yoga class which i really need today!

Whats New!

I feel the need to write a bit about what is going on in our daily lives! First i am 7 months pregnant!! We are all really excited around here and we found out on Valentines day that we are having a girl!! As there is no testing that can be done to find out if this next little one will have moebius syndrome, we are just hoping and praying that she will be healthy! At the sonogram we did take notice that she had all of her fingers and toes as that is really the only thing that would set off any signs of Moebius. Not that her having it or not would affect us in anyway!! Benjamin is very excited that a baby sister is on the way and i don't think that willem gets it although he has made the comment that my belly looks like a bubble!! And when we ask him he will tell us that there is a baby in there! She is due July 4th...
We are very much enjoying the arrival of spring here in Nutley!! We planted lots of Tulip bulbs last fall and they are all blooming it is really very beautiful. We also set up the sand box this week and Willem is having such an amazing time!
Today he climbed up a little 4 step ladder to got down a slide and he even figured out how to sit when he got to the top!! A great first! I am so happy he is becoming more and more independent every day as it is just getting harder and harder for me to carry him around and prop him where he wants to be! Benjamin is really enjoying riding his bike we have a park just a block away that he enjoys zooming around!!
Really you would be amazed at how fast he zips around! Yes, he has training wheels that i am in no hurry to take off!
AND that's our present situation!!!

Willem's Hippo Therapy

Willem's third therapy is hippo therapy which he as been doing since he has been a year 1/2. Yes, horse back riding before he could walk. The intention was, is, to strenghten his core muscles so that he can walk!! In the beginning he would cry or fall asleep on the horse but now he really enjoys riding. They have him play simon says while riding as well as face him backwards. It seems to be working BUT again with every thing we have done it is always hard to know how all would be if say we never started this. It does fall under the category of his occupational therapy in general his fine motor skills have been good for some time. BUT larger tasks have always been harder. At 2 3/4 years old he still is unable to figure out how to open a door and has a hard time with toys that have tasks of opening and closing. But is good at stacking blocks,playing at his train table and putting puzzle pieces together!!

Willem riding DUDE earlier this month!