Brag Day?

[numbbears]

I have a couple.

DS had his ST re-eval yesterday. During it he actually did some pretend play. He fed a doll a cracker and gave it a sip of a drink out of a cup.

The other day I was laying down on the couch in his room. He went to his crib and got his blanket out and put it on me.

And I was pointing to our cat and just repeating "cat" over and over. He said "caahhht" once then it turned into "gat, gat, gat". He's getting there.

[cam]

LO can now button and unbutton his little buttons.

LO thought an item was something different than it was. After I told him it was not what he thought, he tried to convince me otherwise. He made several very valid and impressive arguments for his case by pointing out the similar features. Even more impressive was he was able to rather easily express his observations in a way I understood despite his very hard to understand speech.

I brought out some new-to-LO toys, Polly Pocket and I think it might be MLP but not sure. After modeling some pretend play, LO got into it. I would ask what they should do next, what they were going to eat, etc. At one point, he had the dog and cat from the PP set "outside" playing kickball with the ponies using a small ball from a different toy - the ideas to play kickball and what ball to use were 100% his.

[akafred]

2 things:

Char can tie her shoes by herself now! I made a "shoe form" out of a tissue box for lacing and tying and she took to it really well. Within a day (basically just playing once a day at most) she could tie it with help, and within a few days she could tie her shoes sometimes, and within a week she's pretty consistent. It's so funny how do very hard it seems, even broken into small tasks, and then once you find the right outlet, BAM, no sweat!

Char finished the last story in school. They have a reading program where they read cards that start at 1-1 and progress to 20-10 (with 6-15 stories per "level). 1-1 is "Cat sat. Rat sat." All the way up. So now she is just reading regular books in school. A few weeks ago she finished her last writing list. And her math is coming along too. It's funny, we met her brother this weekend and they each wanted to be "quizzed", Char on addition facts and T on multiplication facts. Of course he kept answering hers and pissing her off, but what are brothers for, after all?

[olivegoose]

After her epic meltdown the other day, DD keeps talking about how she wants to go on a walk so she can "try again." She also apologized for when she was yelling at me on our walk- unprompted.

[BostonKisses]

I hope I"m not jinxing things by saying this. She's finally starting to tell me when she has to pee, and isn't just telling me for poop. We still have a lot of work to do before she's fully PTd, but I'm really glad that she's starting to communicate both needs.

[funchicken]

On Monday, I was upstairs trying to get the baby down for a nap, and DD1 made DD2 a snack. It was so sweet. They were sitting at the kitchen table together eating bowls of cereal, and DD2 said DD1 was the "best sister ever."

[anintrovert]

Things are still going smoothly at the new school. His BFF has been home sick this week and he has been rolling with it. I talked to the school psych today while I was volunteering and she said things are going very well. He has friends and is participating (I knew this from volunteering but it was really nice to hear). When I asked about reopening his IEP she said we may do an addendum to add the behavior stuff and speech minutes but she doesn't think we need to do a full Annual IEP.

I can not express how happy I am with this move.

[mirandah]

DS chose to forgo Ipad time last night and instead took his scooter out to the sidewalk to play with the other boys that were out. Last year he hated his scooter (low tone/core) and gave up within minutes. Yesterday I could see he was motivated to keep up with the other kids and kept trying. In just 20 minutes he was almost able to keep up. The boys all went inside after 10 minutes but DS kept playing. I tried to call him in but he refused saying they were all coming back after they ate dinner. Sure enough, 10 minutes later, they all came back and played until dark. This would be typical for most K-2nd graders, but literally a first for my kid. And he acted very nonchalant about it. He came in all sweaty and happy and was like, what, NBD, just out hanging with my buds. Last year because he can't ride a bike or use a scooter he'd just kindof linger around them. It helps that there is a range of ages (there's a preschooler, kindy, 1st grader and 2nd grader; DS is in first) so they vary their play and all kindof watch out for each other. Days like these remind me that despite our tiny crappy house we are lucky to live in they city with tons of built in socializing all around us!

[namastebiotches]

DS got his second period report card from preschool & then the second markings for the IEP goals for the year.
He actually increased in some portions! & on the IEP, there were a few sections that the ST claims he has mastered already!
Overall, he's doing really great at school & that makes me happy. He's also trying & being a lot reasonable these days. Sometimes I have hope our struggles will be a thing of past. Time will only tell.

[macchiatto]

Leo's PT said he's just about ready to be discharged! I asked if we could taper instead of stopping abruptly (I wasn't expecting it quite yet and he ended up falling behind again after the first time he graduated from PT and OT). PT agreed so after next week we'll start tapering. I'm excited to see all the progress he's made since he started with this new PT last May.

[Captain Serious]

Just came back from parent teacher conferences, and the kids are both doing well. We had no surprises. The only down points are that M's struggling with motivation, but it's clear that it's because some of the work lately has been way over his head (grade-level work). Other than that, they are both making really great strides!

[junebug060609]

He used the shape sorter for its intended purpose (instead of just scrambling the peices).