Cora loves her tunnel

For Cora's therapy, Early on brought a tunnel.  They wanted Cora to learn how to crawl with her legs more underneath herself and to sit up with her legs in front of her.  Right now Cora sits up by swinging her legs out to the sides and then sitting up.  Kind of like a helicopter maneuver.

Funny, I was so excited to see her sitting and crawling that I never even thought about the fact that there is a certain way to do these things.  With Cora having the hypertrophy in her joints and muscles, allowing her to continue in this manner encourages her hips and knees to develop in the wrong way.

Cora loves the new tunnel.  For her it is a game and not a teaching tool.  I love this process because Cora doesn't realize it is a correction for something she is doing in a way that is harmful for her.  Cora just wants to play inside the tunnel.  Especially if her brother Phoenix is at the other end laughing at her silliness.  Cora can army crawl pretty fast to the other end and once she gets there she makes a growl sound and grabs his ears.  When he laughs, Cora bounces her legs and laughs with him.

Life should be this gentle.  We all need those subtle gifts that can change the behavior that is damaging to us, but at the same time, allows us to grow in a healthy way.  We just need to approach those changes like Cora, with an army crawl and laughter in our hearts.  For me, this would make life changes much more manageable and I would even be willing to play the game of changing the unhealthy behavior, and laughing with happiness at the end result.  How about you?