This video may look normal to most of you but that's the point... it looks "normal"! Tyler is sitting still... this is unbelievable for him. He never sits still. Even if he wants to sit on your lap, he still squirms, gets up, turns around, wiggles his feet, pushes against you, puts his head into you, turns around one more time, well you get the point. He is sitting still. what's better... he's feeding himself. Which we haev been able to get him to do at the table but often struggle to get him to do in an evironment that he doesn't have to eat, i.e. usually if we tried to give him a snack not at the table and he's hungry, he'll open his mouth but not want to touch the food. And even if he did feed himself, you could only hand him or have available, one piece at a time or he'd play with them all or flick them out of the bowl. Here, he's picking up a piece out of the bowl and eating it while he watches Barney. Hopefully you can all see what a success this is for us!

Last night was no different. He was laying in bed with us after bath time (ben had already went to bed) and he was happy just laying still, drinking milk, dad was rubbing his hair. He didn't have any toys or entertainment, just happy hanging out with us and intereacting like a normal child, i.e. more interested in people than objects. We struggled to put him to bed because we didn't want to lose the moment. It was so precious.

Today however did not go as smoothly. He was fantastic this morning when it was just him and I. Breakfast went well, we are really m oving out the supports and he's doing so well at feeding himself. He's really interactive with books and has been working hard on his pointing. He was chatty and happy. He also did well during Carrie's visit. He's been doing well at allowing us to push him to the point of frustration but maintaining his regulation. We began to work on imagination play today with a feeding a doll and earlier I had worked with him on farm animals and a tractor. However, things took a turn for the worst once it came time for videotaping. I'm a bit concerned with his drastic change that he may have somehow gotten a hold of something he shouldn't have, i.e. gluten. He suddenly seemed sick, runny/puffy eyes, runny nose and very very easily frustrated. I could not push him at all and in fact, things he normally has no trouble doing, i.e. taking his cup to teh kitchen counter, caused meltdowns. It was a rough session and broke my heart. But it was all worth it because we are convinced that Tyler said "I Love you!".... I'm hoping to get a copy of the tape so I can play that clip because he said it twice, after I had said it, and both the videographer and I agreed that is what he said. After a hard days' work, it was great to hear.

I had a really funny clip of Ben to post but for some reason (it's logn) I couldn't get it to work. Ben likes to pretend he has the pic-ups (hiccups) and he and dad were pretending and he had the biggest giggles, it was very funny.