AUGUST 8TH
When I arrived this morning, Tony was still upstairs but within a few minutes he was downstairs and Morgan was making him a waffle. While eating his waffle Tony manded for “nightmare”. So I got Nightmare before Christmas and we proceeded to his room to start watching it. He was very talkative this morning so I figured it would be a good time to slip in some ABA. He wasn’t responding to any of the questions but did like the motor imitation. He’s really good at that and imitated me everytime. Then today once again he decided to make a chair for turtle to sit in. He manded for the turtle, pillow and blanket. Tony even seems to check on turtle and adjust the blanket for him.

Jill came this afternoon and after their session Tony and I decided to go on a wagon ride. On the way out of the house, Tony noticed the chalk by the door and decided that he wanted to draw with chalk on the sidewalk first. After telling me he was all done, we went on the wagon ride. I tried to take this as an opportunity to get him to identify things we rode past but he never responded. When we got back to the house we watched Nightmare before Christmas and started painting. I got out Tony’s paint shirt, paint and some paper but asked him what else we needed. He responded with brushes! After he was all done painting I tried to get him involved playing with some of his toys. He seems to like the ones that have music. He really seemed to enjoy the sesame street saxophone and started to dancing to the music. Overall, today was a good day for Tony. See you tomorrow!

AUGUST 7th
Today was a long day for Tony. When I arrived this morning Marlaina was making breakfast for Tony. As he was eating his waffle, he manded for “nightmare”. So we proceeded to his room to watch Nightmare before Christmas. During the movie, Tony decided he wanted to paint. He’s gotten pretty good at knowing what we need to start painting. As I was grabbing the paint shirt which he manded for, he was already getting the materials out we needed brushes and paint. Once he was done painting, he then manded for Elmo. While watching Elmo, tony decided that we were going to make a chair out of his cardboard bricks. After making the chair, I figured Tony was going to sit in it but he had other plans for it. He then manded for turtle, pillow and a blanket. I figured he was going to lay down in it while watching Elmo. He then layed the pillow down and put the turtle on top of it. Tony then proceeded to cover the turtle with the blanket and said “night night turtle”.

This afternoon, Tony was acting pretty tired. We mostly flip flopped back and forth between watching Nightmare before Christmas and Elmo. I tried to work some ABA in and ask him some questions but he never responded even when I tried to prompt him. Later on Tony decided he wanted to go outside so we drew with chalk on the sidewalk. I tried to take this as another opportunity to get Tony involved in some ABA but he still didn’t respond. After we finished with the chalk Tony wanted to go on a wagon ride. But since the wagon was full, I got him to go behind the house and play his favorite game stop/go. He seems to love this especially when I am the one holding him and running…lol. But overall it was a good day. Hopefully we can work on some ABA tomorrow.