Best News Ever...

Mabel had her two week post cast and brace appointment yesterday morning. The doctor was very happy with her progress, he also liked her brace! He said her hip feels very stable and he would like to see her have SIX hours of brace free time a day to help loosen up that left leg! Six hours!!!!! That's right our Mabel can be free range for six hours a day. We can cuddle her brace free, she can play brace free, she can sit, use her high chair...there are so many great things she and we can do! Mabel was so cute when the doctor was explaining everything to us and telling us what he thought, she was nodding and smiling at the right times and pointing at her brace when he talked about it. He was so taken by how much she was in the conversation, it was really sweet.

So our new plan: in the morning Mabel gets three hours brace free while we do our morning stuff. Then when I get home from work she gets three more hours until bath time is over. Yesterday was like a dream as I watched her marvel at the fact that she was playing in the living room all free, she looked at me like, "are you sure I'm allowed to do this?" I feel like we are doing something wrong by taking the brace off, but it is so great. Mabel quickly remembered how to sit upright and she tried to crawl up on a foot stool! We're going to have a very very mobile Mabel on our hands soon!