Annika gets her wheelchair

Yesterday, Annika received her wheelchair. This has been about a 3 month process and she took to it like a fish in water. Mainly this will be used for her whenever there are long distances involved. But that being said, she loves it and I fully expect to be chasing her down the road this summer in it. She picked out the color red because it matches Lisa's red convertible so you can figure out where her mind is going!! Last night she had to eat supper in her wheelchair. I told her she could for the first night but she is not going to be using it every night. She agreed. Time will only tell. Now I have the fun job of trying to make my house more wheelchair friendly. It should be very interesting around our house the next few weeks.
This morning she got up and found a button we had made of her brother, Dan, from wrestling. She had to wear this on her coat today. He has wrestling team finals tonight and she is proudly showing him off today. Where would she be without those brothers of hers?
Gotta run but hope to get a picture of Annika and her wheelchair to post on the blog soon.

Annika went skiing!!

Annika went to Powder Ridge today to do some adaptive skiing!! She had a blast. At first I think we didn't have her implants totally working under the helmet so she was a little quiet in talking with the instructors but she would scream as she went down the hill. After we took a break to warm up a little bit the helmet got on a little better and boy did she have things to say!!! They went down the bunny hill a couple of times and I could hear her screaming the whole way down!!! She didn't want to leave and wants to go back as soon as she can to do more!!! The picture on the right is her getting all buckled into the adaptive ski. Her DAPE teacher was there so she was excited to "race" him down the hill!!