long time no post....

"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." ~ Stephen Wright

I am pretty sure I have used that title before when life has gotten out of control and I've lost contact with my blog! That happens way too much unfortunately!

So, what is new with us? A whole lot of the same unfortunately. Still working through issues with boy, but we are making progress. Maybe we've made a lot of progress, but I keep setting my goals for him higher and higher? Well, I'm not sure how much progress, but we are making progress.

The biggest improvement I see is at sensory therapy. In his session two weeks ago he noticed another boy playing in the sensory play room. His therapist asked him if he would like to go play with him and boy said no; he had it in his head that he wanted to make paper airplanes. Well, at the end of his session he told his therapist that he really *should* have gone and played with the other boy so she took him in there. She said she was utterly amazed because he walked up to the boy, told him his name, age, where he went to school and what he liked to do and then said.....
......wait for it........

...."So, what is your name?" ---- H U G E improvement there! HUGE! I swear her and I both nearly cried as she was telling me this. He interacted with the other boy, asked him his name, his age, and what he liked to play (after somewhat coercing the boy into stating that he liked Super Mario haha). They then decided that they they would play together at the next therapy session which was this past week.

So huge improvement right there, but I am beginning to think that he can interact with other kids like that when someone he feels comfortable with is around (me or therapist for example).

The reason I think this is because this week he is at camp and is having SUCH a hard time making friends. Each day I ask him to come home with just one kids name...finally he had a name yesterday and after I talked to him about it, it ended up that he finally got a name because he was able to read someone's name tag haha.

So, we continue to keep continuing on and as long as you continue to keep continuing on, then you're doing a really excellent job.

And just some random black and white thinking for ya...

His therapist asked him yesterday "Have you tried any new food lately?" (he doesn't like to try new foods) and he responded "Yes, I ate dirt today." and she said "Really? Dirt? You ate dirt?", his response "Yes, that's what they called it, but I'm pretty sure it was crushed oreos."

Love him.