It Was Fun Watching My Mom with her Newest Great-Grandchild

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Some of you have heard me talk about my mom here. She's had dementia for several years now. At first she lived in her house and did fine. Along with the dementia she is also legally blind. She has peripheral vision but cannot look at anything directly. Through the years as her vision got worse then her memory took a dive as well. She decided when she turned eighty that she didn't want to live to see ninety, and I think that is a big reason why she got dementia when she did as it wasn't long after. I think she lived with the beginning disease in her own home for several years. It wasn't until she fell outside when walking with a friend, and once she missed the last step heading down to the basement. After that when there was an opening where we had her name at the senior housing we moved her there. She was there three years. Prior to last June she needed more help than the senior housing's supportive nursing staff could give her for what their certification allowed there, I think. So we had to find her a new home. We did. Mid-June we moved her to a new group home that just opened and she's been there ever since. Last fall she was taken off a couple of her dementia meds. One was for when you live alone and at the new location she was always around people. Prior to that we could understand when she talked with us although she had no idea who we were. Now, she doesn't make any sense or not much, but out of the blue she will say our names when we're in the room. Sometimes when she's stringing what sounds like it should be sentences together she'll stop and she knows a word or several aren't correct, but she can't think of the correct word for what she's thinking. Anyway, after that introduction, on Easter she really got into talking with the baby in the picture here. The baby is six months old and my mom said every word correctly and in the right order. She was talking like you'd talk to a baby, but I was quite impressed and blessed to be a part of that. She even remembered the noises she used to make with her mouth when babies were around.