Wed 11 Oct 2006
When I came in today, Tony was taking a nap. He had a long morning with his speech therapist and he was wiped out. I started to reorganize his playroom. After about 2 hours, Tony finally woke up. He came downstairs and greeted me with a “hello jenny” and a “how are you?” He asked for Blue’s Clues. He knew it was already in the DVD player somehow even thought the TV was off. When I was about to turn on the TV, he backed away. I guess he has gotten accustomed to the loud noise that the TV makes switching from TV to DVD. He got all excited when it came on finally, saying “press play” and “pweeease”.
Later on, he asked for “The Corpse Bride” and stayed in the living room to draw on his long sheet of paper. He went back into the playroom after doing this for a short period, and got into the mystery bag. He took out a new toy with dinosaurs. As he was playing with them, he started to name the colors and would give a “rawr”. After a while of this, he placed them on the mat that he got with it and would match the colors of the dinosaurs to the specific areas of the mat.
I started to clean up while he was busy with his toys, and he decided to join in with the sweeping. He took the broom from me. While he was doing this, I took the opportunity to ask him “A broom is for us to?” To which he answered to “sweep.” He helped me with the cleaning. When I was fixing to leave, Tony gave me a “bye Jenny” and continued to draw with his markers.