Tony had a pretty good day today with Elizabeth and I. We started the day off with some coloring with crayons, which he manded for by walking to the hanging giraffe and saying first “aben” and then “craigh” (for crayon,) throwing balls, and jumping on the trampoline. While he jumped, he had fun playing different songs and manipulating the volume control to produce ‘loud’ and then ‘quiet’ sounds, adjectives we began to introduce last week. Although he can only make an approximation of the words, he shows a real handle on the concept. We then went for a walk, during which he (surprise!) wanted to go to the pond and throw things into it – mostly leaves and sticks. He sat in a neighbor’s glider, tacting ‘chair’ while he climbed up and Elizabeth swung him. We made our way back to his room and got some good work accomplished before it was time for his session with Jill. A highlight of the day happened right by Conrad (the bus) when Tony was stooping down to look under it. He was looking for shoes on the other side. Elizabeth asked him “where are they, where are the shoes?,” to which Tony replied quite clearly, “right (wite) there (thea)” and pointed to my shoes.