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We went to Childrens yesterday. Took more than an hour to get there!

All went as great as it could go. And I knew it would! I told Grace not to worry as she looks terrific and they heartily concurred!

Her range remained the same which was a pleasant affirmation since she had grown quite a bit in height. Its an affirmation because I knew it from working with her everyday. Her calf growth was very good too. So all measurements were excellent.

She did her walks - with braces, without braces, and with the shoe without a brace. Gracie looked marvelous in all of them.

So we've had some changes in exercises. Now we can skip the "slides" and replace them with walking bent over with knees straight and shuffling. Luckily we begin at only 3 minutes of them for each session - morning and evening. So we gained 7 minutes to put into her standing stretch. Hooray! But we do have to work on building that up.

Also, they confirmed what I had observed recently - that Gracie is lifting her toes on her left foot when she is walking. So thats resulted in the dropping of the exercise where she lifts her foot up 100 times and been replaced with lying on the ground, knees bent and tapping her foot 100 times.

Finally, they changed the 100 times calf raises to 100 times calf raises doing both legs at the same time but slowly lowering the left foot to the ground.

Lots of changes. Lots of positive results.

Hooray for Grace and all the hard work we put in twice daily! We go back in June.


BTW, we got our winter boots at The Childrens Store