Mands: 18

Whitney and I had fun with Tony today. He is doing extremely well with phase I receptives and motor imitation. So well, in fact, that Whitney thinks we may be just days away from retiring most of these items into maintenance. Way to go Tony!

At the beginning of the day Tony was a little cranky and we couldn’t figure out any reason. When Whitney blew up his new punching balloon and we all started hitting it around the room, he was so thrilled that he forgot about his crabbiness. We asked who he wanted the balloon to go to and delivered it to the recipient of his choice. During this game, he actually tried to say ‘Tony.’ Then Whitney found another new toy and decided to try to get Tony to say ‘what.’ Success!

While we were in the room playing with play-dough, before Whitney or I even noticed anyone was here, Tony’s face lit up and he suddenly got excited and ran over to the door. Jill had arrived, and Whitney quickly picked up on it and grabbed this opportunity to get Tony to say “who.” By the way Jill, what was the advice for ‘yellow’ again? First ello, then lello?

After Jill left Tony wanted to go for a walk. He only made it as far as the sidewalk in front of the house before he was completely enthralled with the piles of bricks Whitney, Marlaina, and I had unloaded while he was in speech therapy. He busied himself for a long time making tall stacks of bricks