6/17/08

We now have video of Tyler saying "I love you" but it's too big to upload :( I'm going to see if Steve can use his laptop to cut it down in size so we can try again. So hopefully soon, sorry for the delay but it will be worth it. Although it's not 100% articulated, Carrie told me today that someone walked into the media room when Caitlyn was copying the video and they said, "did he just say I love you", ha! So a total stranger that does not know me or Tyler figured out what he said, yeah!

Things are going well though. We had a wonderful Fathers Day weekend with Grandma. We went to a water park on Sunday. Tyler did get a little stimmy on the water fountain area and we struggled a bit to get him away from it. I used all the techniques I've learned but wasn't having much success. After speaking with Carrie today she mentioned since it's "novel" i.e. it's the first time he's been there this year, we may have to just let the excitement wear off, trouble is, his hands start turning blue from being in the cold water. So she suggested next time that we have more of an itinerary and to let TYler nkwo the plan in advance and remind him each step of the way. We'll try this next time. How many families have an intinerary when they go to a water park..... Everywhere we go has to be a planned event in order for it to be a success.

We also went to an open house this weekend. Luckily it was at daycare so it was a familiar environmetn for Tyler, and they had an inflatable which both the boys love. Tyler did very well with teh other kids in the inflatable. He did get frustrated and cuddly a few times but overall he tolerated it well. WE were even able to get him to eat a little (thanks Karen for making TYler's special food and giving him a special chair). Ben of course loved the cake and tried M&M's for the first time and didn't like them. We realized this weekend that he had never had chocolate before. In fact, the only candy he's had are jelly beans and he had one twizzler on halloween so I was happy to see him spit out that M&M, however, there was no way he was gonna put down that piece of cake until it was gone. Grandma watched the boys for us on Saturday night, thanks Grandma!

Tyler did well in today's session. He's really doing well at meal time without supports and for the most part feeding himself. he's also really wanting to get involved in more group activites, i.e. reading, etc. he even brought me over to his piano today which is shocking becuase he doesn't need me at all to work the piano and it has lights and music (becoming rare in our house) and he still wanted me to look at it with him and he even let me touch it a few times.

As for goals, I currently only have 3 goals because we are gonig through them so fast, Carrie wants to make sure to space them out until the end of the study to make sure we don't run out. yeah mom! Tyler is doing very well with his goals as well. He's been really really talkative lately, we feel he's on the verge of saying so much.

We have somenoe coming over once a week to give Clifford some extra attentino, he's feeling left out lately and we may have one of Steve's coworkers take him for a weekend here and there as well.

Hopefully we'll have the video up soon, it's so great!