Okay, so today did not provide the best working conditions. Poor Tony woke up with the ugly green monster of a boil still on his inner thigh. He’s been running a fever and felt awful today. He could also barely walk. Needless to say, we did the best we could. Tony started off the day by grabbing his mom’s hand and go to the back door to swing. While swinging the therapist counted aloud to ten with her hands. Tony grabbed the therapist’s fingers while counting. Then Tony whined to go inside so the therapist stopped the swing, said/signed “all done” then brought him inside. We did this 2xs today (Tony wanted to swing again later).
Then Tony had a small snack and watched his favorite shows. The therapist showed him the “food” card. Also, his mom used the “eat” sign with him. The pic for “cup” was also used later with his drink. Then Tony finished (by throwing his food onto the floor). The therapist and mom said “all done” and let him out of the highchair. Tony immediately started lining up his bowling pins. The therapist helped him by moving the pins into a triangular shape rather than letting him just line them up in a straight line. Then the therapist rolled the ball saying “roll it” into the pins and knocking them down. Tony said, “yea” and clapped. The therapist did this again before using hand-over-hand and having Tony do this. Then Tony grabbed his larger soft ball and rolled and bounced it before putting it into his basketball hoop.
Later Tony matched clothespins (he didn’t want to see the lizards today–screamed if they came near him [he did this with leaves too]). The therapist put one in a box and said “put with same”, then placed the 2nd clothespin into the box. Then the therapist repeated the activity with Tony using physical prompt. After that, the therapist did the activity by just saying “put with same” and Tony put the clothespin in the box with its match a couple of times before wanting to quit.
Lastly, Tony was really upset at this point (tired, rubbing his eyes, limping) and took his mom’s hand to the front door. We all walked to the park then Tony just wanted to sit on the ground. He walked a little more before going inside. Then he wanted to sleep so he went to bed. We completed a few activities and could only do them a couple of times each but it was as good as can be expected considering the unwelcome in-law living on Tony’s leg.