Brag Day

[numbbears]

It's finally Wednesday and I have a big brag.

DS has a second word! My mom babysits him on Mondays. When DH was leaving him with her, he told DS bye and DS said it back. DH, my mom, and the therapists are always "hearing" DS say things that are just his normal babbling so I wasn't expecting much. But when I asked him to tell me bye, he did. And he's still doing it two days later. I really hope this sticks and is the start to him having a vocabulary.

[akafred]

That's awesome!

[akafred]

For a little over a year I've had a glittery mess of a picture on my living room wall next to poster prints of a Van Gogh and a Klimt. It says "I am Helpful." I had her tell me a word that describes her and wrote it out and she glittered it all up and then asked me to hang it on the wall, so I did.

Yesterday in DH's car she asked for a special Emmy post it note (they were the little table gifts this year). She wrote "I am helpfl Mom" on it, then had DH put it on the mantle and use an arrow-shaped post it to point to it.

I forget how to do pics on mobile. I may post them later if I feel like dealing with the full site.

[mrsbuttinski]

DS has been adjusting to the demands of university writing standards. They are draconian. OMG, his archeology professor forbids contractions- this is undergrad not a PhD thesis.

He asked me to proofread a short essay and I suggested he was being too colloquial in his writing choices. He tweaked a few passages and got a C+. He came home, tail between his legs, and said I was absolutely right "this time". At any rate, the instructor went to town with specific criticisms and I think he'll do much better on the next piece since he's formulating a way to give this person exactly what they want. I've been singing this tune for years. Why does this shit take so long?

He did, however, take my suggestion for a book review of the Civil War and brought home a sweet 100%. Two steps forward, one step back. Always.

[cam]

LO has been making funny faces lately (sticking out his tongue, squeezing his cheeks, etc), and it cracks me up.

He also sat through a movie in the theater with my mom and 2 other elementary-aged kids (she was braver than I to even try that).

The sun was shining through the windows and it made parallelograms on the floor. LO was jumping through them. A bit later when he went back in that room, I said, “Your parallelograms moved. How did they do that?” I wasn’t really expecting an answer, but he floored me by saying, “Sun move.”

LO got my butt in gear to take care of some mending I have been putting off for ages. He helped me through almost all of it too (playing in between his parts he likes to help with) instead of asking to do an activity only to abandon it after two seconds.

Not very exciting brags; I am annoyed I had a really good one and can't think of it now.

[dixienormous]

PF is really trying hard to walk and WANTS to now. She really wants more independence.

She's also trying to verbalize more. When she wants something she'll point and before we give it to her we always ask, "What do you say?" and she'll verbally "eeeees" (please). Now we're working on "thank you" which takes more coaxing but she's starting to say a version of it.

[hopecounts]

I picked DD up at her ABA school yesterday (FIL usually does pick ups since it is an hour away where he works) and DD got a glowing report.
Her ABA said she is getting the routines and he has been able to step back and let the classroom team take over when they are in class!
She's able to follow the center rotation, line up when the class is told to, sit for circle time, etc without help!

[funchicken]

DD1 had to have a spacer put in on her bottom teeth last week. It's uncomfortable, and she's been a real trooper about it. Her emotional self-regulation has improved by leaps and bounds in the past year.

[mcribster]

My kid is a little lying liar who lies now.
Not sure when this is supposed to happen in development but he's catching up all at once. This week he hid his cucumbers and told me that he ate them and he tricked his sister into watching a show that he wanted all the while pretending he was 'using his heart' and giving her his turn.
Where is the line between "yay my kid can lie" and "oh, my kid is a sociopath" lol. it's actually great because he used to be a very black and white rule enforcing kid. I'm hoping that ship has sailed.

[bubbalicious]

I took dd to a new swim class last night. Well two. The first I have to w/d her from...it was too hard to get her there without my hair on fire and she was stressed by it.

But the 2nd...she LOVED and surprised me with a backstroke.

WEEEEEE!

[namastebiotches]

I know this is late but it did happen yesterday.
When we drive home from preschool, we are usually behind their bus. The first stop is a private daycare center & a little boy from his class gets off there.
So I usually ask him if he is one of his friends or what his name is. His reply was kind of like a "ah-nome" so I guessed at maybe it was a Jerome? He said yea (but he basically says yea to everything lol.)
When I picked him up yesterday, I heard the teacher saying bye to the boy & his name is Ramone. Pretty darn close! I was so impressed.

[princesslily]

DS has been accepted into a summer camp program which will be providing a shadow/para everyday full time for 8weeks inside a mainstream class. I hope this is a good fit, we've tried regular camps in the past and this will be the first time with this type of service. For the first time though, I felt during the application part, DS was welcomed and accepted for who he was...without an under current of judgement or concern.


In 3 weeks we have our first IEP/staffing meeting. I can't believe we are here already! Wow.

[kmc2]

I love these, I always get this big cheesy smile while reading them. I dont really have a brag this time around. Things have been intense (more so than usual) around here lately. DD is clingier to me than ever and pretty much all of DS behaviors have increased lately, but hey we're all still alive and making it through every day so there's that!

[numbbears]

Feb 27, 2015 22:01:27 GMT -5 kmc2 said:

I love these, I always get this big cheesy smile while reading them. I dont really have a brag this time around. Things have been intense (more so than usual) around here lately. DD is clingier to me than ever and pretty much all of DS behaviors have increased lately, but hey we're all still alive and making it through every day so there's that!

Same here. I really love reading about progress everyone's making. And it keeps me hopeful.

[typeset]

Late late, but the baby tapped me on the shoulder to get my attention. It took months to teach his brother the same skill over the age of two. All the feels.

[funchicken]

Feb 28, 2015 0:11:01 GMT -5 typeset said:

Late late, but the baby tapped me on the shoulder to get my attention. It took months to teach his brother the same skill over the age of two. All the feels.

I know what you mean. DD1 was a late pointer. I remember seeing it on the milestone checklists when she was a baby, but I didn't realize at the time how important it was. I thought maybe she had pointed at things, but I'd missed it. The pedi didn't ask specifically about that at her 12 month visit, she just asked if I had any concerns. I didn't at the time.

When DD2 started pointing at everything at 10 months, it was awesome, and so glaringly obvious that I realized there's no way I would have missed it if DD1 had been doing it at the appropriate time. At that point we didn't yet have a diagnosis for DD1, but we knew she wasn't typical. When DD3 started pointing around the same time as DD2 I did a happy dance.