Thu 27 Oct 2005
So today was kind of uneventful. Tony woke up from his nap because the cat was in his room so he spent a good 20 minutes crying before he calmed down. He watched a little TV which calmed him down and then Marlaina and I took him outside to swing. While Tony was swinging I would make sounds to keep his attention. Everytime he would swing up towards me I would make a noise like “Ahhh” and then Tony would imitate me and do “Ahhh.” Other noises included “Arrrrr” and “Booo”. Tony really interacted well with this…I got a lot of eye contact and smiling too! Well, this was probably the highlight of the day because after this Tony’s mood was very inconsistent. Tired and screaming one minute and then the next he would be watching TV. He really didn’t want to focus today. I tried redirecting him with various things like the red ball, the drum (‘do this’ and bang on the drum), and stickers…but Tony seemed pretty tired and kept reaching for Marlaina to take him upstairs. We went for a walk before he went to bed and did “jump” a few times and Tony would jump. He started requesting it, reaching up for me saying “yump” rpeatedly. So of course, we did jump all the way back to the house. After this, Tony went to bed. So not a whole lot happened today but I did learn something with the swinging thing.