Happy Cinco de Mayo

Happy Cinco De Mayo. Here is a video clip we took a couple of weeks ago when we took the boys to the inflatable place. We must have taken this one early into the session because Tyler can very easily climb the ladder and go down the slide on his own, although he goes on my lap in this video. The boys had such a good time last time, they went again this weekend. And were going up and down the the ladder and slide all by themselves! Such big boys now. Grandma had a ball too :)

There isn't much new news to report for Tyler. The month of April was rough for us with the flu, colds, and then Steve and I being out of town part of it, it just seemed difficult for us to get ahead. We are looking forward to May and really moving forward on Tyler's progress. Starting in June we only see Carrie twice a week so I want to take advantage of all of the time with her that we have! Since the weather is turning, we have begun to work on things we can do with Tyler outside. It is very difficult to get and then keep Tyler engaged outdoors, one reason is because you can't necessarily control the environment, i.e. toys, etc. And two, there are so many sights, sounds, smells, etc. it's very overwhelming from a sensory standpoint. So we'll be working on those things as the weather permits. Ben will also be joining Tyler and i this week in floor time on Thursday and our session with Carrie. We'll work on snack, bath, and hopefully either "chase" or stroller ride.

I briefly met wth the speech therapist last week and am really looking forward to working with her. She seems wonderful and really interested in ways they can help support Tyler's goals from the study. Also, small world, I used to work with her sister in law at my last job. We are just waiting on a time for all of us to get together (speech, OT, U of M, me, Tyler) to discuss ways to work together and then we'll schedule weekly sessions.

P.S. Ben used the big boy potty on Friday! He went poo poo and when he was done he looked at it and said "ewwww gross" and then later in the day, he went pee-pee. He's getting to be such a big boy. His new favorite song is "hey diddle, diddle" which he can recite the entire way through. He's really funny.