Today Tony did pretty well considering that he had a 3am bedtime the other night and still seemed a little out of sorts. We started out swinging first which I think kind of calmed him down…he still gets fussy when Marlaina leaves his sight. After swinging we worked on the matching drill “put with same” using the blocks. He did it a few times unprompted but he didn’t really want spend that much time on it….so we went for a walk…Marlaina, Tony and I. After the walk, I worked with Tony with stickers. I peeled a few off and prompted him to put them on the page in his new sticker book. After a few trials Tony started to peel off the stickers himself and put them on the paper. I started to prompt him to put each sticker in a specific location (where my finger was) and I would say “Sticker here.” He did this twice and then I decided he’d had enough so we moved on to rolling the ball..sitting on the floor with the ball facing Tony we rolled it back and forth a few times. I would say “roll ball” as I rolled it to Tony. He would push it back to me..I can really tell that everyone has been working with the ball thing with Tony..so great job guys! After that he (well, we) watched Booh Bah for a little. He picked up his small multi-colored notepads and played with them by setting them on their spine. Since he was so into the organization of the notepads, I took a crayon and started coloring on one of them. Tony watched and then I handed him the crayon. He was very reluctant to take the crayon at first but when I started pounding the crayon on the paper saying “Do this” he did it once. We stopped the activity after this..he’d had enough with me messing up his notepads. Tony had dinner after this activity (walked to his chair). After eating he did a few really cool things. While we were eating he walked over to me and looked at me right in the eyes. Marlaina also caught him playing appropriately (and unprovoked I might add) with the wire and bead toy! Yeh for Tony! So today definitely ended with a happy note…and a happy Tony too!