4/26/13 & 4/30/13

Aaron didn't eat breakfast again, although he did come out and look at the dried apricots and bagels at least this morning. At lunch he ate all of his applesauce, some of his noodles and pasta and even a bite of his tilapia.

He has one outburst as mom left the house with Rae and not him and that was it! He was fine even before mom was to the gate!

Aaron was trying to use the pliers to grab everyone else's hair and other body parts this morning. They didn't think it was nearly as funny as he did (or Rae did when he was doing it to her)' so we had to redirect him.

I have been really working with Aaron on doing more things for himself, especially getting his coat on (except for zipping) and off, and his shoes on and off. He can do it with verbal instructions, but would much rather we just did it for him.

Aaron, Thomas and Kenzie were all playing together on the rowdy side of the big room for most of big room play after breakfast. They were jumping, running, hiding, dancing, spinning, and carrying stuffed animals around, loving it and laughing lots!

Aaron has done a great job of saying "No! I don't like that!" when one of the kids did something he didn't like, usually trying to stop him from spinning.

Aaron had all of the bracelets that are out on his arm today and was loving jingling them. After a while a couple of the other kiddos wanted to have one also and he did such a nice job of giving them each one!

4/25/13

Aaron didn't eat breakfast -- blueberries and cinnamon raisin English muffin. At lunch he ate all of his canned cherries, a couple bites of sweet potatoes (after Emily encouraged him to), and a couple nibbles is his saltine crackers, no canned chicken.

Aaron played with Riley a lot this morning. Part of it had to do with the fact that Kenzie wasn't here because she stayed home with grandma today. Regardless, they both enjoy laughing and being silly, so they have fun together.

Aaron really enjoyed being outside this morning. He was pulling the wagons around, teeter-tottering, playing on and under the climbers, and using the dump trucks mostly. When he was pulling one of the wagons, Mia was taking advantage of it and loving the ride.

Aaron and Emily also played together again some this morning. They were especially enjoying driving the little cars around the dip in the big room picnic table bench. It makes it kind of like a rail road rack for their cars to run in.

4/23/13

Aaron didn't want to eat breakfast (waffles and hashbrowns) at breakfast. At lunch he ate all of his orange slices, some rice and no colored peppers or shrimp.

Emily didn't eat breakfast either so they played in the big room while the other kiddos ate breakfast. We could hear them chucking and when I went out to check on them they were playing their own form of hide and seek/peek a boo in and round the igloo and under the stuffed animals.

The whole group of kiddos (except Nora and the babies) were piling all of the stuffed animals up on the black chair in the big room. It was stacked so high some kept tumbling off. That made it even more fun for them because they were falling off as fast as they stacked them up. When everyone else was done and all of the animals had been knocked on the floor, Aaron wasn't ready to quit, saying "Oh-oh guys!" wanting help on rebuilding of the tower.

Joslyn and Aaron played alongside each other with the cars, trucks and other vehicles in both back rooms. They interacted with each other some as they played but mostly did their own thing while watching what the other was doing and sometimes imitating it.

4/22/13

Aaron ate about half of his Cheerios and a bite of banana at breakfast. At lunch he ate the cheese out of his cheese sandwich, a couple bites of the bread and a couple bites of apple slices -- no tomato soup.

Aaron and Emily were having so much fun playing with one of them under the table and the other peeking into the hole

Aaron and Joslyn both had cell phones and it looked like they were talking to each other. Joslyn wanted to get one of the vests on she so asked Aaron if he would hold it for her. He did and then gave it to her when she was done.

Aaron was working on the faucet in the little kitchen set again, but this time it must have been a little more serious because he had the saw rather than just the wrench.

Aaron and Rae were cracking up playing together. Upon further observation the activity they were finding so entertaining wasn't really acceptable. What they were doing was grabbing each others hair with the pliers. I am not sure why they found it so funny, but... Then Rae put on one of the piggy masks and Aaron was grabbing or trying to grab the masks ear and lauding so hard he was bending over. What a riot!

4/19/13

Aaron didn't eat breakfast. At lunch he ate about half of her lean ground beef, applesauce and some cheese off of the peas and pasta.

I spent quite a bit of this morning focusing on watching Rae to complete as much of the checklist as I could, so wasn't quite as in tune with "my kiddos" as usual.

We did have all of the kiddos do free-draw while I watched RaeAhnna closely to see which hand she used, the hold on the marker, and the other things related to that. Aaron was very excited to draw and also did a great job of making sure the lids were back on his markers before putting them away!

In the back room, I helped the kiddos build throne chairs, first making them to small so they only fit one kiddo. I then enlarged them to fit two each, which worked much better. Before the enlargement, Kenzie asked Aaron if he wanted to sit on her lap, which he did and was very cute.

4/18/13

Aaron didn't eat breakfast. At lunch he only ate a couple bites of green beans and a bite of kiwi.

Emily also didn't eat breakfast and while everyone else was eating they were having fun playing on the rowdy side of the room, jumping on the mattress and carrying and piling the stuffed animals in various spots.

Kenzie was working on Aaron today. She had him laying down like he was her patient, but asked her assistant, Emily, "will you get me a wrench?" I'm not sure if she was pretending he was a car or a patient!

Kenzie, Aaron, Emily and Thomas were playing "big bad wolf" on the rowdy side for quite a while this morning. We have a felt wolf mask that goes with the three little pigs and little red riding hood story and masks. Kenzie started the chase game by putting it on and telling everyone to "run away from the bad wolf!" They were loving it. Aaron decided to try to being the big, bad wolf, but only left the mask on long enough for me to get a picture. He acted like it he couldn't breathe with it on! I can relate! I have some issues with claustrophobia also! : )

4/17/13

Aaron didn't eat breakfast again today. At lunch he ate almost all of his beef and bean burrito and a taste of tropical fruit -- no sweet potatoes.

Emily and Aaron were really enjoying playing at the climber/balance beam this morning. One of them would lie on top and one underneath it and then they were both peeking at each other and "getting each other". Aaron was really chuckling!

Joslyn had made a big pile with all of the stuffed steady bears at the end of the mattress for the kiddos to jump off of the mattress and into. They actually spent more time rebuilding the pile than they did jumping into it, but they all were having a great time.

Aaron was doing a lot of plier play again today. No one else even comes close to being as dextrose as he is. He can grab both big things and little things with them.

Aaron instantly connected with the semi truck again when we went to the back room. He and Riley were driving their trucks on the big interlocking blocks, with a few crashes into each other that they both thought were hilarious.

Kenzie asked if they could do "Doodle Buddy" art today. As soon as I said we could, Aaron was right beside me saying, "I, too? I, too?" It was really cute!