Thursday, April 27

Today Noah had therapy all day, which was really nice for me, but I did miss working with him.  It is really nice because I get to work on feeding, planning, housework, or playing with Andy.  I get a lot done on Thursdays.  Today he drank 4.5 oz of Pediasure and 2 oz of juice.  We are on our way to drinking one entire feeding by mouth per day.  We kept missing his potty times today.  We will just have to work harder tomorrow.  I made a little potty story and a new potty chart to try.  We'll see if that helps.

Weekend

The weekend was good but not long enough!

Monday, May 1--- May Day!

Today, Noah did not want to get out of bed.  I didn't either for that matter.  He didn't want to get out of the car when we came back from dropping Scott off.  So we sat in the car awhile listening to all the sounds outside.  He wanted to stim, stim, stim today.  BUT he ended up making 28 verbalizations today, one was even UNPROMPTED.  He was getting really upset early on, and I had to stop, lay him down and give him deep pressure.  Eventually, he was able to calm down.  I was really proud of how we can push throught these hard times now, to end up getting some work done.  I think it is just fantastic, how he is learning to get through his grumpy times.  So I decided to take a floortime baseline on circles of communication.  I gave him a half an hour and I counted 71 circles of communication that we closed.  So that was unexpected and fantastic!  I would like to keep track of that at least once a week.  I was going to have Caroline do it, but I may keep track of it myself, since it fits in rather well into situation where nothing else is really working. He was drinking well and  ended up drinking 1 oz of Pediasure and 1-2 oz. juice.  He enjoyed the gears, whistle, and clicker for reinforcers today.  He went potty two times.

Tuesday, May 2

He was fussy then happy today for Kim in speech.  They played the drums to the Lion King soundtrack.  Today he made 31 verbalizations-- 4 of which were UNPROMPTED.  In the afternoon, I read Wocket to him, and he finished probably 20 sentences.  It was amazing.  He went potty 3 times today.  He is still loving the lip whistle a lot.

Andy had soccer today.  He absolutely loves it.  It is really fun for him to have his own activity to go to, and new skills to learn.

Wednesday, May 3

Today we started off with lots of reading and talking.  He played Flight Simulator for awhile.  He was really mad and wouldn't come upstairs, but of course loved hugging and tickling.  We did art for awhile and he really seemed to enjoy coloring, gluing, and painting with the water colors.  He and Andy painted next to each other for awhile, and later in the day, Noah would come and sit at the kitchen counter again to make more art projects.  The boys art is getting soooo cute.  I hung it up all over the walls in the family room.  Once, when I asked Noah if he wanted to color, he said, "ESSSS."  I am pretty sure that was a yes.

Thursday, May 4

Not sure what happened today, except that I was exhausted and needing to sleep allllllll dayyyyyy long.  Andy and I went out for breakfast at Zanzibar's, which was really cute.  We read books and the comics and had drinks and bagels.

Friday, May 5--- Cinco de Mayo!!

Today Noah had a PT evaluation and was casted for new orthotics.  We should get them in two weeks.  Liz is interested in getting him on the PT roster again.  There is a waiting list, so it should take a couple of months.  In the evening, we went to the Cinco de Mayo celebration at Valley Junction and the kids really enjoyed it.  Andy loved the caboose they have there and Noah loved the music.  He had the biggest smile on his face and kept dancing.  It was really fun.

Saturday and Sunday--

fun, relaxing... it is about time we had a weekend like this.  We needed it sooooo badly.  On Sunday, we all went to church and afterwards went to Allen and Deanna's.  Noah had Little League and we picked up his hat and jersey.  He got to hit the ball off the tee and run around the bases.  It was really fun.  I think that is going to be a highlight of the week for all of us!