Mands: 19

It is 1:30 and Tony has already gone down for his afternoon nap. Perhaps this may have something to do with the fact that he’s been awake since 4:30 this morning. This morning Danielle was here and we kept track of his mands in the 10:00 – 11:00 hour. After that it was time for speech with Jill. Before Danielle’s arrival I did some cleaning. We didn’t want to overwhelm her with the tornado stricken appearance of the house indicative of early mornings like this one. While I was cleaning Tony hung out with Morgan.

When Danielle arrived we went through a somewhat regular morning routine. We watched some “Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Blue’s Clues,” then we went into the room. He manded for painting once we were in the room and while we were discussing the necessary ingredients for a good painting experience he opened the drawer and retrieved brushes on his own. Smart boy! While he painted we tried some intraverbals. Since he is still not very familiar with these he did not get too many right. Danielle tried a few and I think she’s getting things easily. Then Tony manded for sandbox, so we escorted him outside. While he was playing he very clearly asked “Where’s yellow shovel ?” I told him it was in the yellow bucket and praised him for his good talking. After he’d finished with the sandbox he manded for a walk, so we went!

After I finished negotiating the new gate we were off and running! Tony immediately manded “goooooooo!” I didn’t want to leave him so close to the parking lot, so I told him I could only go if he did too. He responded by manding for me to pick him “up.” Then I prompted him to mand for going again. He did, and we went! One bad thing about this walk was that Tony tripped on an uneven concrete square and scraped his forhead and nose. Poor thing! We went home to use the comforting qualities of his Mom. Within minutes he was okay again.