Moving right along...

Well, things are going well with our brace-free hours of the day. Mabel loves her new freedom and when I get home from work she is eager to take the brace off for her afternoon three hours. When I lay her down to take the brace off she takes the belt strap off herself! Very cute.

Her right leg seems to have full movement back. She will even stand on her right leg and hold on to furniture to support herself. On the other hand, or foot that is, her left leg is still in the same position as it was in the cast. She will get up on her knees when she is on the floor, but she still army crawls. It has resulted in a raw spot on the inside of her left knee. I just bought her some more leggings to wear under her brace so when we take the brace off she is ready to go. I'm concerned with her leg being still so non-functional, but I'll talk to the doctor about that on Friday. It makes sense that she hasn't used it for about three months so it will take time, but I still worry.

Her next appointment is this coming Friday. I secretly hope he'll tell us she can be out of her brace all waking hours...but I don't think that is a possibility right now, and that is OK too, six hours is huge and totally unexpected so soon - I shouldn't get greedy.

Sleep has only gotten worst. Mabel's teething again and we are back to waking every hour or so...I'm just so tired. I know that it is hard for her to wake and then when she tries to get comfortable again she gets herself wedged in a weird position causing her to get really agitated and cry. It is hard, hopefully these teeth will pop through and she'll be able to sleep better...I sure hope it is just the teeth anyway, I mean she should be use to the brace by now right? She has been in it for three weeks now. An annoying feature of the brace is it has a screw that hold the position angle of the legs on the bar that runs between her legs and the more Mabel moves, the looser it gets causing her leg angle to change. She hates that, I assume it feels weird, we have to tighten the screw every morning and night. I wish I could find more info online about sleeping and the brace, it feels so isolating wondering if it is just us getting no sleep.