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Here are some pictures of Tyler at Splash Camp. The theme for the last week of camp was "creepy crawly" and you can see in one of the pictures, Tyler is touching a frog. We also found out that Tyler touched a turantula.. ewwww... I might have had a heart attack if I did that. So the newsletter said that Tyler's favorite parts of the week were teh "flight of the bumblebee" toy and jumping around in the ball pit. In terms of feedback from the therapists:

Music: Tyler had an increased level of independence ni terms of sitting without staff support during music. More frequently this week, he was able to sit alone on his capart square without being on an adults lap and he wa sable to watch adn engage in teh session when sitting alone.

Speech & Language: Goals focused on transitioning from playtime to speech time, focus and joint attention, listening skills & more consistent use of gestures. Tyler has shown increased group participation and focus on people and faces. He is more independent at the speech table especially during songs & stories.

Occupational Therapy: Tyler has done very well this week! He has transitioned much better to the OT room in the morning and has a higher level of participation! He seems to respond well to moderate pressure provided in short bursts to help calm him in the morning.

So this week, Tyler is kind of in vacation mode, taking it easy at daycare :) He did the coolest thing this morning. Tyler often signs for things he wants or makes sounds for them but rarely makes the appropriate sound and sign at the same time. The key there being appropriate.. eh still makes sounds but not always the cooresponding sound. Well this mroning he walked up to me and said "buh Buh" and I turned to look at him and he was signing "book" yahoo! We keep his Tag books in the kitchen so he has to ask us for them. I was so super excietd that he made the right sound with the sign :)

We started a new potty traniing plan with Ben today, hopefully it works. Found a bunch of dinosaur stuff in the dollar bins at Target yesterday. Bought a bunch of it and put it in a bin then last night after boys went to bed I made a reward chart. Kinda looks like a calendar. Each day has a square for 20 days. Every day that he has a dry diaper all day at daycare he gets to put a sticker in a box and then grab a toy from the bin. Hopefully this will work. he has to do it for 20 days and then after that he gets to go to teh zoo to see the animals which means he watns to go to teh Toledo zoo. He seemed pretty excited about it this morning so let's hope it works and we can get down to just having one kid in diapers and then we can start working on Tyler in the fall. School pretty much does most of the work for us for Tyler and we just follow whatever they tell us to do.