Mands: 11

Either Tony is tired or not feeling well. He seemed a little off today, and Marlaina noticed it too. I was sick yesterday and today Anton threw up and Marlaina can’t seem to eat her brunch. There’s something yucky in the air.

When I got here Tony was ready to eat. He manded for ‘chip,’ ‘chicken,’ and ‘waffle.’ He also said “eat chip” very clearly and got extra reinforcement: delivery of the chip, cheering, and hug. We decided to watch a show. Marlaina and I asked if he wanted “Blue’s Clues” or “Telletubbies.” He picked “Tellitubbies,” so we put on the episode entitled “Skipping.” Tony seemed to be thrilled with the selection. He was a tacting machine . . . pointing at the screen saying “sky,” “fwawa” (flower,) “sun,” then he tacted the tubbies’ colors. When the tubbies showed the video of children playing, tony was completely enthralled – they were skipping, or at least some of them were. Others were trotting, galloping, just plain running. Anton defended their haphazard attempts at skipping.

While the show was still on, Tony manded for “shoes.” We put on his shoes and went for a walk. After the walk is when he started feeling not so good. He wanted to go ‘over’ the gate and play in the bathroom. He loves to turn the light on and off and pretend play with the toothbrush. He is getting somewhat obsessed with the toothbrushing thing. Everytime we were in the living room he wanted to go back to the bathroom.

We tried playing in his room and starting with some ABA drills, but we had to abort mission repeatedly. It didn’t seem like he was happy until we were either going for a car ride or brushing our teeth. We went on two car rides, one of them to the park. Finally, after the second car ride while we were in his room he verbally confirmed the fact that it was time for “night night.”