Not only does Annabelle not feel her legs, her hips are actually dislocated (this is a good thing but too involved to explain here). So as Annie scoots and tumbles and rolls around in her crib, her legs go where they will which can really FREAK A PARENT OUT when you go in to get her up in the morning and she has tied herself into a pretzel.
Just to give you a visual on one of Annie's favorite moves, I pulled this photo off the Internet:
Annie will push herself backwards which causes her legs to go into the splits. Somehow one leg ends up straight and the other bends at the knee. So imagine if the person in the photo pushed herself up to a sitting position, in the splits, with one leg straight and one bent.
Now imagine you find your 2-year-old sitting up in that position; happy as can be.
And just for one final "kicker", imagine your two-year-old sleeping that way. With her head next to her outstretched ankle.
The therapists have assured us this is normal and fine and does not pose any problems at all so we have basically learned to live with it.
But it still causes us to pause every now and then and say, "Whoa".
2 comments:
That just made me laugh...we always tease that Autumn would be a great cheerleader if she could kick both of her legs to her ears while standing. I agree, it is freaky though watching her "crawl" around and one leg is stuck in a direction it's not suppose to and she has no clue.
This just made me laugh too! Grey has been known to do some CRAZY things with those legs...especially in that crib. I now can say "fix your leg, Grey" and for the most part he will try to fix it. I've never seen someone do the splits as easily as this kid! :)
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