Day 1 of Physical Therapy

Today Parker and I started physical therapy to teach us how to use and care for his new leg.  Scottish Rite provides a room for families during physical therapy so the babies can still nap during there sessions so they are more cooperative.  This is Parker after we checked into our room:

We will have 2 sessions each day starting today through Wednesday.  The first session today was to introduce him to his physical therapist and to let him look around and get comfortable in the room we'll be working in.  They have these big blue tables that can be raised and lowered to the height that works the best.  They brought out an assortment of balls and cars to get Parker interested in standing at the table with his leg.  He did good putting weight on his leg and trying to move around.  He was frustrated when he would try to scoot down the table and his new leg wouldn't get out of his way.  Overall it was a good session and he seemed okay with his leg by the end.

After physical therapy we went into the playroom and he enjoyed some relaxing floor play.

 After his nap he had some lunch and Mo Monkey tried on his leg:

Parker did good during his second session of physical therapy.  He cried at the beginning when we put his leg on again and took some convincing that toys were fun but then he found the cars again and the world was great.