hug

can't believe I didn't post.

Yesterday tristan was standing on a chair and hugged me and said hug
and proceeded to continue hugging me and then asked to be held upside
down by leaning his head back.

:)

argh

so I'm making beef fried rice (in one pan) so I cooked the meat and
stored it in a sealed container while I cooked the rice. tristan's
hugging it, real cute. well after taking it away repeatedly, he
apparently managed to hug it so hard that he's squeezed it open and
dumped half of it all over the place. then he proceeded to cry at me
until I fed him, though it appears he's distracted himself for a
moment.

chocolate cake

and now he's painting himself with the cake in the process of trying
to get it off his fingers...

birthday cake

just had tristan put his birthday cake in my hand, upside down, in its
container. I think he wants some...

door

tristan is swinging my bedroom door back and forth from the wall and
putting his hand in between the door and wall and laughing and
jabbering at it and saying something that sounds like ow and aaaaaa

now he's tapping the doorknob with a stick in his right hand while
continuing to do the above.

he seems quite content.

pressies

trying to figure what I can get tristan that he'll play with as much
as he's been playing w/ his christmas present....

drummy

Christmas was interesting for trister. He ran all over the house (and
his sister crawled) during present unwrapping, so I had to either open
gifts for him or chase him down and pick him up or chase him down and
open in front of him.

he got all sorts of baby toys, which is good, because they're the kind
that make sounds or have interesting textures. He likes them.

I got him a music set, with a drum on a stick, a stick with bells, a
triangle, a weird stick thing, and maracas (sp?). He loves the drom
and the maracas. He likes to tap a maraca on things and likes to tap
things on the drum :)

Santa put a play kitchen utensil set in his stocking. little metal
ladels and spatula and whisk and a wooden spoon and spatula. he liked
them, and used them to tap on his drum.

right now he is tapping a plastic spoon on a cookie, and I have to go
save the cookies from him.

pressies

Got this music set with what looks like a tamborine on a stick with no
symbols for trister

opened it up (but didn't take it out) and showed it to him to see how
he likes it.

I loved it and tapped on and stroked the drum and tried to take it out
of the container.

hopefully we get that reaction on christmas eve. :)

Yo-Yo Ma

I am such a .... I don't know.

I couldn't resist and gave them their present early (imma doing the
real shopping on friday anyway)

anyway. the classical music on tv seems to have lowered the volume in
my household just a bit. and it is much more relaxing than regular tv.
:D

dvd we're watching, vol 3 struggle for hope, had too much explaining
how they made it in the beginning but the music is beautiful.

Toy tristan likes

tristan doesn't 'play' with toys.

He sure likes this thing though (Lily's bday pressie from godmom):
http://trus.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pTRU1-2878312dt.jpg

and aaaaaaaaaaack bloggers down!

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messy boy

my completely messy just woke up from a nap crying boy has turned into
a clean content boy after a shower and then a bath. :)

it will take days to fix the mess he made whilst I was at work :(

This is my life

looking forward to two IEPs in one week.

Tristan already had one, but he needs another because they're moving
him to a new school.

AI Program visit

visited tristan's potential new school.

It's closer to Lola's (I can see trying to arrange parent teacher
conferences on the same day) but harder to get in and out of than his
current school (not the school itself but the neighborhood - train
tracks and other schools in the area pose issues). So it may or may
not be easier to get him there if he misses the bus.

It's not set in stone - some children need to transition out for him
to transition in. but it's pretty sure he'll begin after winter break.

I never think to ask questions...

All the kids there are autistic. and I was amazed at how they all sat
for story time and listening to music time.

The all use picture schedules much like Tristan's object schedule. and
some facilitated communication (holding the childs hand to help the
child focus and direct)

There's a variety of developmental abilities in the small room.

The teacher's son goes to the same daycare as tristan does after
school and she plans on popping in when she picks up her son to
observe him :) so she can meet him. She'll also be visiting his
regular school when she gets a chance.

They'll start letting him do whatever, until he gets used to the
class. He'll then have alternating choice time and specific
instructrion time. They'll also help steer choice time to be
beneficial.

They have a trampoline in the room :D

fingers are crossed that everything goes smoothly and this is good for him.

Also, as we were wrapping up, one of the boys that will be
transitioning out came by and gave the autism specialist a half hug,
and lightly pressed against my side for a second. I explaind that
Tristan also does stuff like that and will spontaneously go up to you
and hug you sometimes. His current teacher then remarked, with a smile
that they will miss him very much. :)

found at meijer

pro
freshionals

corn brush

by Good Cook

for $2.99

Just like those little brushes they use for therapy for Tristan,
except oval instead of square.
If you read and remember the name of the therapy, please reply! It
involves brushing his limbs and moving his joints.

With a nice handle. The handle is also the perfect size for Tristan to
hang on to, as he likes to have an item of that size, preferably
roundish, in his hand.

two birds w/ one stone. yay!

and I found it at the Okemos Meijer to be exact. In the produce aisle,
on a little stand with hang tags. had other producy items like another
type of brush that resembled a round scrub brush. It was near the
center aisle. (in case by some freak chance someone in the area who
needs a one of those things happens to read this)

I'll like maybe bring it to ganpa's and post a pic on flickr with this
same description, I think.