Brag Day Wednesday!

Assembly_Reqd · October 2013

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oandmplus1 · October 2013

Inspired by Aunties post today about sleep habits, DD slept through the night last night without me needing to soothe her MOTN and has spent the last 3 to 4 nights sleeping in her own room! We have struggled with this off and on for months.

kcisthebombdotcom · October 2013

Dd is finally starting to string words together in short sentences.

bumpuser511563 · October 2013

I made DS's Halloween costume on Monday. Early, I know. It took me a whole month to get DS to wear his Nemo costume last year. I had to give him cheetos as a bribe.

I cut the cardboard out and painted the box red. I left it out in the living room and DS was playing with it using his toys and put it on twice with ease! He was happy and so was I!

Aww, DS loves boxes still!

MirandaHobbes · October 2013

Three days in a row of great reports from kindy! I'll try not to get ahead of myself, but it feels awesome. DS is much happier, too, and I can tell he is sincerely proud. The magic positive reinforcer? Not starbursts, as they first tried, but talking time. DS earns tokens that he can cash in to have one:one talking time with teachers/aides. He is such a chatterbox. The high school kids that work with him in his afterschool program think he's hilarious (they might be changing their tune in another month or two as the novelty wears off!)

lite-bright · October 2013

I love, love, love seeing how much more reciprocal DD1 is to her classmates. Last year she got along, but I didn't see a lot of kids trying to engage her, and her initiating. I feel like I see it every day in her kindergarten class and it makes me feel so good.

So, the girls named our minivan Carly. DH's car is named Carla. DD1 got it in her head that she wanted to switch their names, and she and DD2 were arguing about it. They go back and forth for awhile, until DD1 sighs and drawls, "allll riiiight, we can call her ..." as if she's giving up, then she pops in the name *she* wanted to use. She was totally trying to trick DD2 and it was all in her tone of voice, hoping that DD2 would pay attention to HOW she was saying things rather than WHAT she was saying.

It was a far cry from even 6 months ago in terms of prosody and understanding the impact of the tone you use.

funchicken · October 2013

DD's been having a lot of anxiety about school lately because she hasn't been getting stickers from the teacher. The teacher was handing them out a lot the first couple of weeks, and since then it's tapered off. She's not getting in trouble, but she's not getting that extra positive feedback either, so in her mind if sticker = good, then no sticker = not good. DH and I have really been trying to downplay the importance of the sticker. Most of the work that's coming home shows that she's doing pretty well with following directions, and she seems excited about the things they're doing at school, but the stickers have been messing with her head. Today, for the first time, she came home and said she had a great day, and even though she didn't get a sticker she did a good job

. Yay!

funchicken · October 2013

MirandaHobbes said:

Three days in a row of great reports from kindy! I'll try not to get ahead of myself, but it feels awesome. DS is much happier, too, and I can tell he is sincerely proud. The magic positive reinforcer? Not starbursts, as they first tried, but talking time. DS earns tokens that he can cash in to have one:one talking time with teachers/aides. He is such a chatterbox. The high school kids that work with him in his afterschool program think he's hilarious (they might be changing their tune in another month or two as the novelty wears off!)

So happy to hear that things are improving! I was wondering how your DS was doing.

august06mom · October 2013

DS2 gives me hugs now. :-) Only on his terms, of course, but I do love them when I can get them.

laurding · October 2013

DD stood at the couch during PT for THREE minutes!! She can't get there on her own, but neither of us were holding her at all! Love seeing the progress!

mommytoconnor · October 2013

One day late, but oh well. My DS who has been hell on wheels lately at daycare actually had a good day without being written up for something. He even said his teachers name for the first time and he said it twice, made her cry. So Cute.

Rachel Sonnier · October 2013

Got an email this week from DS's teacher saying how IMPRESSED with him she was and how well he is catching on and behaving!! From the way this school year started and having been practically kicked out of Mother's Day Out last year, I didn't ever think I would read those words!! I was one proud mama!

Yesterday was also his OT's last day. He has made so much progress with her that I was super scared for her to leave us. My ONLY concern with her was that while DS was improving in leaps and bounds with SI, he was still not meeting his motor goals, which is a major concern of mine. Yes, the sensory issues were once his biggest problem, but now being able to use his hands is a big deal, especially now that he is in school.

Being that her training was over yesterday, the new OT briefed me at the end of the session. What was the first thing she mentioned??? His weakness and joint instability in his hands and how she plans to treat it!! All I could think was FINALLY!!! I think she might be exactly what he needs. I don't know if that is considered a brag, but I am SO super excited about it!

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