Today I came late so our day was unfortunately cut short. Tony was still sleepy so we moved slowly. I worked on motor imitation with rolling his car and also tried to work in tacting “shoe” and “book.” Although he didn’t tact it exactly, he did echo “shoe” really well as well as “block” later on. He did great with manding for “bubbles” and “open” as usual. Before I could get to the match to sample trials Tony started whining to go outside. I took him out and we did work on “touch tree.” I saw Tony going after the tree in the center of the back so before he touched it I said “touch tree.” We also did “jump” “ahh boom” and “fall down” outside. I also tried a new motor imitation “do this” and I jumped up with my hands in the air (I really just did this because my arms were tired from jumping Tony…so I thought he could try and jump on his own). Tony imitated me on the first trial and I followed with tickles and verbal praise. Soon after, Tony picked up a leaf on his own (he used to be afraid of them) and paraded around with it for a few minutes while I said “leaf” “hey, Tony, you have a leaf.” So then he walked over to another different kind of leaf and picked it up and I said “ohh another LEAF, Tony.” He then ran over to a small bush and put his hands all over the leafy branches and totally said ‘leaf.” It was great. We also worked on “lets run” where I would get Tony to run after me. Marlaina came outside to tell us she was going to Chick-fil-A and since Tony loves the car so much we all decided to go and get yummy gluten-free waffle fries..yum. Tony had speech after eating and I got to sit in on one of Jill’s sessions (which I’ve never really gotten to do before). Jill is so great at manipulating Tony’s playtime and integrating the therapy. I really learned a lot in just an hour of watching her work. My time was short with Tony today but hopefully next time I’ll get more done.