Today was a great day with Tony (despite the absence of our beloved Parker who is sick today). The weather was also really nice so we took many walks today. On our walks today we did a lot of animal watching. We saw birds flying and I demonstrated how to fly like a bird (flapping our arms). We also saw several squirrels playing and Tony echoed “squirrel” several times later on when he was looking for them. Tony’s receptive language has really developed. I asked him where the squirrels were and he said “in da tree.” Yeh for Tony!

For his breakfast, Tony only manded for “chicken” today. He later tacted “cookies” and “chips” however. He learned all of his foods much faster than we all expected!

Tony had a good round of speech with Jill today. I had to keep him busy for about 30 minutes until she arrived because he was so excited to see her. While Tony had speech, Marlaina and I decided to tackle cleaning out the Subaru (a large task). When Tony was finished, we took Tony on the car ride he had been manding for. We also went to the car wash which he did NOT like. I think the soap on the car and the noise from the water jet must bother him.

When we returned it was time for a quick snack and a Blues Clues. He manded for another walk which we made short because Tony was getting tired (he got up again at 6am this morning). Time for night night!