Don't you just love the giggle of babies!!!  Emily, my 6 month old, loves me to change her clothes!!  She just lights up and giggles!!  It cracks me up, especially since my boys hated to change their clothes!

Today was a good day.  We stayed home all day (lovely) and set up the big blow-up pool in the backyard under the slide!  So fun! 

Last night, I stayed up late cleaning the house really well so that everything was in order today.  It is so much easier maintaining rather than catching up all the time!  I think this helped my day a lot and helped with RDI.

Also, I was on the phone for quite a while today and yesterday trying to get better insurance coverage for Steven.  Praying for this.

1.  Throw clothes from dryer to basket.  Jackson, Steven and I set up an assembly line with roles: 1. pull clothes out of dryer and toss to 2. catch clothes and toss to 3. catch clothes in basket.  This went really well.  We rotated roles and Steven really stayed in tuned.  What impressed me most was that Steven was able to pay attention to Jackson to catch the clothes, then turn to me to throw them.  He would giggle a little at me when i would move the basket and stuff, so sometimes he'd forget to look to Jackson to catch the next item, but i thought it was great that he was so intuned with me.  then, when i gestured to Steven to look at Jackson, he could and didn't seem too thrown off.

Overall, it was a great RDI.  Only about 5 min's but i thought it was a hit.  He was reluctant at the very first, but didn't take much for him to join in.

2.  Later, just Steven and I took clothes from washer to dryer.  This was brief, but went well.

3.  Folding clothes...Steven has always run away from this, literally!  I said, "Let's fold clothes".  With a little coaxing, he came with me.  We began folding clothes VERY simple.  He was silly at first (way of gettting out of it), but as soon as he saw the shorts (very easy to fold), it was like a light came on b/c he remembered that he knows how to fold shorts!! 

I was instantly reminded of his deep need to feel competent in order to try anything.  I was also reminded of what a terrible guide i've been especially in the beginning of RDI.  I had tried to make it WAY to complicated (to keep it variated) but had made him feel lost and scared to try it in the process.  So, I kept it simple and he actually enjoyed the time.......My lesson::::  BUILD TRUST.  I want to do everything i can to do things with him, no matter how small....in fact, as small as I can make it, in order to teach him he CAN trust me to learn to do new things....even, old things.