Today was not a great day in the land of Tony. He was very irritable all day. He worked with Parker in the morning and then with Jill later on in the afternoon. He seemed frustrated and cranky much of the time during his activities. He went down for a nap for only a short time until he was woken up by the sharp noise of the creeky front door. After a few soothing words from Mom and Dad, Tony drifted back to sleep for only a short while until he was abruptly woken again. This time he was upset and did not want to go back to sleep. After he was brought downstairs he was very whiny and laid his head down on the couch and table. It was apparent he was still tired and did not get enough sleep. He started manding for “walk” only minutes of watching some Blue’s Clues. We headed out the door and Tony darted straight to the car, desperately trying to grab onto the car door handles saying “open.” I tried my hardest at redirecting but it was obvious that he REALLY needed a car ride to soothe him. Marlaina, being the doting and understanding mother she is, grabbed her keys and directed me to put Tony in the car. After a quick drive through Ion looking at houses, Marlaina took us on a quick side trip to the nearby bike shop. Tony looked at bikes and boats upstairs and fell in love with a kayak. He was very reluctant to leave and in fact threw a terrible-two tantrum on the floor. After wrestling him into his seat we decided to end our merry car ride and head home.

Back on the ranch, I took Tony inside and worked with him a bit until bedtime came. We worked on under and over, long and short and played with Play-Dough. His approximation for this word is getting much better. Tony also picked up his giant puppet dragon and seemed very interested with it today. He really likes having the dragon pretend to eat his hand and drink out of his cup. I tried to shape a mand for “dragon” with this and he started making approximations. After playing with some more toys it began to grow very dark. We headed in for one last show with Blue and then it was off to night-night. By this time Tony was getting very out of sorts because he was so tired. Hopefully a good night rest will help!