It was playtime today. Megan (EI) and Tony used the shape sorter but Tony didn’t really want to play with it so she pulled out the play-doh. Mommy intervened just in time with the “magic” gluten-free dough. At first Tony was not interested but later he did enjoy the pretend eating and also wanted to organize/line up the different colored doughs. Tony enjoyed having the play dough so much that we couldn’t move on to another activity. We tried swinging, jumping, other toys, even post-its but Tony continued to cry. So we gave back the play dough and then followed Tony’s lead. He eventually played with new stacking toys, puzzles (did place some of the pieces in the correct places), he bounced on his ball and made a sound for “bounce”. Tony also said ball often (when picking up one or when pointing to one in his puzzle). Tony requested “tickle” a few times and ran around outside (he’d run to a gate, giggle, run away from it, then repeat). He also made the sound for “jump” throughout the day (especially when he was stepping over cracks outside). We did do some 3-D to 3-D matching (“put with same”) using some stacking blocks and squish balls but this was brief. The coolest thing to come out of today was during Tony’s lunch. Barney was on tv having a pic-nic, so I pulled out Tony’s pretend plates and fork and placed his sandwhich on it. Tony was picking out the cheese with his fingers so I gave him the fork and showed him (hand-over-hand) how to get out the cheese that way. After that Tony was using the fork with the sandwhich on his plate! Today was really just playing and trying to do a little here and there. The day started off roughly with the play-doh and the crying/inability to redirect so we just took it easy. While playing I hid one container of dough at a time until they all disappeared. By this time Tony was tired and wanted a nap so he didn’t seem to notice/care. After all of the physical contact/playing Tony was ready for bed. He went upstairs with mom and passed out in no time.