Ok…so I took a break from post last week, but am back on track. I think the biggest thing I have noticed over the past few sessions has been Tony’s interest in various play activities. He has attempted to take part and imitate actions and sounds related to play. It’s been really great to see the joint attention to these tasks! We have done things like pushing a little truck back and forth, loading crayons into the back of the truck, pointing to pictures in books, and pushing buttons on a musical toy. Today, while looking and pointing to pictures of foods, I showed Tony the sign for “eat” and made sort of a lip smacking sound. He immediately looked at me, put his hand to his mouth and clicked his tongue. He continued to imitate this 4x. He was making great eye contact and actually tried to put his hand in my mouth a couple of times. I thought this was really cool! Tony made multiple attempts at vocal/verbal imitation today. He tried an /s/ sound, two, bye, beep beep, and the tongue clicking. I’m proud of him! Hooray for everyone’s hard work!