I took the kids to Joshua’s OT appointment yesterday and talked with Annie about ideas to help with potty training.  She gave me a hand out from this site: http://www.teacch.com/toilet.html I looked over the site and was quite impressed with what I read.  I think we can do this.  It’s going to take some work, [...]

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Vision Therapy Assessment Today, Joshua went to Alderwood Vision Therapy for an assessment. I was immediately put at ease when his running around the office was simply taken in stride. My dear Sarah caught him as he ran down the hall while I was busy checking in at the front desk. Rachel was helping get [...]

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Two steps forward, three steps back Joshua has been making progress with his diet, however, for the past few days, he has been eating a lot of bananas. I know I’m most likely not limiting his fruit intake to the recommended 15 – 20% of his diet. I sure try, but as I’m working in [...]

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“Time to go potty!” Joshua has continued to talk more, repeating phrases and even initiating some relevant speech. He said “more” on his own at dinner, and said “mine” with Michael, who was being a stickler about the trains, as to who’s Stanley was whose…Despite the 5 year old need for justice, I can’t begin [...]

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Hair cuts and Joshie Monkey We had a schedule change today, with Joshua’s Occupational Therapist having to cancel due to being sick.  The girls were a little disappointed as they wanted to see what Joshua did in therapy and they didn’t have to go out to Monroe today for their Excursion due to the Mid-Winter [...]

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Speech Therapy Today Joshua had Speech Therapy with Amanda.  He is making so much improvement.  She is working on teaching him to say the practical words of: “mine, open, and out”.  I have gone in with him at times and had the girls do some reading from their lessons, but lately, since Michael can be, [...]

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“Little Joshie Monkey” Joshua didn’t go to school today due to the Mid-Winter Break.  It was nice having him home, for several reasons.  One is, I didn’t have to worry about the bus!  However, it does make it challenging when working on school with the girls.  (Yes, I made them do home school, despite the [...]

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What did Wendy and Diego do? This morning, while getting dressed for Church, Joshua was holding onto the Lego figures of Wendy from Bob the Builder, and Diego, from Dora the Explorer.  I took him to sit on the toilet, which is becoming a routine, when he suddenly threw down the dolls and started to [...]

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Something else to get used to I had ran out of pro-biotics last week and started using Kefir to supplement.  One problem:  Joshua doesn’t like it.   He hates it, in fact and takes his CLO without a fuss but pitches a fit with the Kefir.  I give it to him in a syringe and am [...]

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Joshua pulls my hand and directs me into his world.  I think that’s a positive step.  He wants me to play with him. There are times he pulls in his sisters, too, and engages his brother by teasing him, taking his trains and running, laughing as he goes.  He went to Sunday School today and [...]

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