Yes and No

Quick note: Still haven't heard about OT. Annoyed.

Speech has been going very well! Bug is going back with Laura without too much fuss and she says he's doing hard work while he's back. One of the biggest things they've been working on is saying yes and no appropriately. Bug has known "no" for quite a while, but "yes" didn't really come in. So they've been working on answering questions (like "Did you have fun") and more concrete things like choosing which puzzle piece goes in which puzzle. We've been seeing some progress with this at home too, although it still does seem like sometimes he isn't sure. He'll say no then yes or yes then get upset. But it's coming.

I need to do more to sit with him and get him to play/work with me. Laura has had some success getting him to take turns rolling cars or playing games, but at home Bug seems completely uninterested. I think I need to encourage him a little bit more, to get past his initial "speed bump" of resistance.

With the good weather, we've been outside a lot. I had the water table out one day last week and Bug loved it! Not really a surprise. With all the gardening I've been doing, I've been able to show him worms too and he seems more interested than I've ever seen him before. He also likes to pick up sticks from the yard and pile them on the cement.

He tried to put this huge branch in the garbage can yesterday. :)

Yesterday at the park, Bug figured out how to make his swing go in circles while he was in it. He really enjoyed that! We always try to give him a good amount of swing time at parks, but he does show a good amount of interest in the slides. He wants to climb some of the ladder-type things more, but gets nervous and comes back after a few steps. But he does keep trying!

We got the paperwork for the clinic we want to take him to for diagnosis and Adam and I filled it out this weekend. Not my favorite task. I need to get the evaluations from speech and OT before I can send the packet back in. But it looks like he'd be evaluated at the end of May or early June.

Will try to be better about taking pictures this week. Here's hoping we have lots of fun even if this weather doesn't cooperate!