Summer Break 2025!

Noa had a great summer break! ​

​She continued to find ways to express her independence while also thinking up new crafting projects to keep Mommy busy including her most recent request for a hat with blue, green, and yellow rattles.  

Noa tries out her new rattle-hat.

Noa enjoyed keeping track of the days with the August calendar that she brought home from school. She also started using an alarm clock. When it rings, she turns it off and then puts her overnight toys (doggies, Bo, Electra Monkey, blankets) into a basket and then gets up by herself using her walker and goes to the bathroom to change into play clothes.

Noa spent the first two weeks of break at Putnam Literary Camp which she enjoyed tremendously, along the way, she had a visit from Aunt Pate which was also a lot of fun. Other highlights of the those first two weeks included a few trips to the local pool with Dad (she picked out a blue bucket from the dollar store to pour water on her head).

Noa was an absolute rock star when we went to get an xray of her foot. She enjoyed meeting the Xray tech, Scott, who gave her a sticker for doing such a good job, and she continues to talk about him.

We spent the third week of vacation in a rented RV on Mascoma Lake in Lebanon, NH. We thought Noa might like an RV because the compactness of the space might make it easier to deal with a new space and it would give us the ability to bring more familiar activities. She did seem to like having her usual activities and, while she couldn't navigate the space independently, she did seem to like the fact that could understand the space quickly. Plus, because we were close to Visions for Creative Housing (where Dad works), we were also able to do some respite time with her "friend" Beth which was a joy for everyone!  The 58-mile Northern Rail Trail runs right through the property where we were staying, so Noa enjoyed her long walks in Blue Stroller.

Noa enjoyed shopping on vacation. She picked out two shirts: one pink, one blue. She also enjoyed pulling herself back and forth on a hammock, reading her books on the porch, and visiting a friend's house for dinner.

Back home, the big event was the arrival of Noa's new blue wheelchair and gait trainer. She loves both, and likes to celebrate talking about her her friend Ken, the NuMotion tech who delivered them. The new chair is lighter and more agile then her previous chair. She is excited to bring it to school and say good bye to her old, heavy purple wheelchair.  She has become enthusiastic about maneuvering in her manual wheelchair.

It's hard to believe that anything could be more exciting than a new wheelchair... but the gait trainer??? Definitely the MOST exciting thing! It's more compact and lighter than the one she's been using at school. She's enjoyed using both of them every single day since they arrived. The challenge is finding space for all this new equipment! 

Noa tries out her new chair while Ken works with the gait trainer.