I will be doing a double blog today as I didn’t do one yesterday.

Yesterday when I arrived Tony seemed excited to see me. He was watching a show in the living room but soon was running off into the playroom. When we got in the playroom he started to watch his new turtle movie. The show actually has frogs in it, but they look just like his turtle. I’m really excited that he’s watching this because I am about to start working on some excercises with him on identfying letters and their sounds. The show goes through the entire alphabet in a fun way. Tony really seemed to enjoy this show because it was on replay almost all day.

While Tony was busy watching his new turtle show, I began to make some cards for him with 3 and 4 letter words to identify. We then want him to match an individual letter with letters in the words. I began this excercise with him yesterday, but should’ve known I can’t compete with these shows!

After the show, Tony and I decided to paint. He wanted purple paint, but that particular paint set didn’t have purple. So I decided to show him how to make purple by mixing red and blue together. He liked mixing them together and seemed amazed at how it turned out. Today, he actually asked for red and blue paint to mix together to make purple!

After we were all done painting, Anton had to take a business call so Tony and I decided to go on a car ride. As soon as we got in the line at Chick-Fila he was already asleep in the backseat. Once we got home, it was evident that he was tired but not quite ready to give in yet. He kept saying “night night on couch” and would lay on the couch while watching a show for a moment and then the next be dashing into the playroom to see what else he could find to do. He did this for awhile until he finally said “upstairs” and was ready to go to sleep.

Today when I arrived Tony was busy painting. He has a new coloring book which turns colors when you paint it with water. Then it dries and you can paint over it again! This is a great thing for him to have because everyone knows how artistic little Tony is and how we go through so much paper and paint each week.

When we headed into the playroom, Tony asked for red and blue paint. He wanted to make his own purple again today. I was really surprised at how he remembered that after only doing it one time! Although, he had a different plan in mind. He wanted to paint his coloring book, which is only supposed to be used with water, purple. At first he didn’t want to budge, but I convinced him that he wanted the bigger plain paper rather quickly. Luckily, Marlaina got the purple paint off and saved the coloring book for yet another day.

The air conditioning guys came to fix the unit later in the afternoon, so Tony and I sat in the living room going back and forth between watching different cartoons thanks to Jennifer for introducing them! Not long after Brittany arrived for Tony’s OT session. He was pretty tired at this point wasn’t too into the activited again this week. So the session was ended early and Tony went up to bed.

Additional notes: As usual today we made our trip to the bathroom. We intended on going to the bathroom to wash our hands after painting, but Tony immediately manded for the toothbrush and toothpaste. Tony used to be content brushing once or twice, but loves the taste of the toothpaste so long that we usually brush 8-10 times! While brushing, he noticed our arms making shadows on the wall. He seemed to enjoy this so much that I decided to try to make a rooster with my hand and he loved it. He thought it was so funny and kept saying again. He was laughing so hard that Marlaina came in the bathroom to see everything was okay. Since I couldn’t remember how to make anything with my hands beside the rooster, Marlaina looked up other animals to try and Tony enjoyed seeing them all on the walls.