Today Tony didn’t get all of his nap time in so he was pretty cranky. Marlaina and I took him out to swing for a bit until he could calm down. The swinging definitely helped but he still seemed a little out of it (kept rubbing his eyes). So we took him back in and I let him take the lead with play time. We played with his Boobah dolls and then Tony went to his chair and whined. He ate while he watched TV and after we went for a walk (and without Marlaina this time). Tony was still sleepy so I started out with “jump” which he really likes. I did jump so much that he started saying “jump, jump, jump.” I stopped and asked, “What do you want?” and he replied with “jump, jump, jump!” Whether or not he really understood my language with the question he was still making a verbal request to me which is great. After jumping we did running. With this activity I would grab his wrist and say “Let’s run!” and then I would pull him with me while I jogged. He did run for about 20 seconds and then tried to sit down (yup, he was tired). So while he was sitting I picked up a few leaves and got him to hold them while I said “leaf.” We went back to the house after that but Tony seemed like he wanted to stay outside. He whined again, so we did swinging again since he seemed reluctant to do any of his other activities. This time after swinging Tony seemed better so we went inside again and Tony pulled his crayons out of the drawer. I worked with him with coloring and then we also did stacking with his new cups. He also played with his shape sorter some. I tried to work on matching with him doing “put with same” with some small foam fish. He seemed very unfocused (still sleepy) and instead of matching he wanted to pour them out of the box…I guess this could be pouring. He also did this with the bucket of bowling pins when I tried to get him to place things back “in the bucket.” Basically, he was very tired, cranky and seemed frustrated. Instead of ending the session, we took Tony outside (Marlaina, Anton and I). He ran around quite a bit and would run to Anton and then fall down saying “ahh boom.” After this we tried to take him back inside. As soon as we got inside he started to tantrum and kept reaching for the door again. We took him to the swing (yes, again) and he calmed down. He signed and said “all done” after a few minutes and then we took him inside. He ran straight towards the kitchen so Marlaina decided he needed to go to bed. So today was difficult in that Tony was very tired but at least we got a lot of physical activity in since he wanted to be outside.