Week 5 Day 1

Well we've made it to week 5! Every Tuesday Zachary has OT for an hour and then right after he goes in for a half hour of ST - for anyone who doesn't know, this is a long time and a lot more work then one would think.

Today went exceptionally well.....

In OT I received a bunch of paper work to read over about starting Zachary's sensory diet, more information about his brushing and compressions, and some information regarding the therapeutic listening program we are going to try. Zachary had a very fun time, playing with balls, and walking up a ramp, playing with play-doh - he didn't mind touching it until we tried to rub it in his palms to make a ball with it - we don't know if it was our touch or the feeling of the play-doh on his palms that he didn't like. Ms. Jerry-Anne also tried to make Zach go into a fabric tunnel - but Zach wanted nothing to do with it, so instead she and I had Zach sit on top of it and we made a swing out of it (Zach was wrapped very tightly almost as if he were back in the womb). Zach did okay with the swinging until we made him bump on the ground and then he was done. He also didn't like sitting on a ball and making it genitally bump up and down - he stayed put but all his focus went down to the ground, I couldn't get him to look anywhere. Zachary was also in OCD mode today ---- he noticed every teeny, tiny piece of ick that was on the floor and would stop to pick it up. He handed something to Ms. Jerry-Anne and she put it in her pocket (telling him she was doing so) so the next thing he picked up, he tried with all his might to put it in his own pocket (this was 10 minutes after she had done it first) What a wonderful memory he has - this carried into ST where in that room he did the same thing.

ST went by way too fast. He had a little bit of a hard time adjusting at first and was very quiet. Ms. Kristin had a box of beans and hid some cards in it for Zach to find. He didn't mind playing with the beans until they were sticking to his hands. He didn't really do well with the game and gave up very easy, but once Ms. Kristin was making him clean up the game went much better - one of the cards was a horse (he can't remotely say horse) but Ms. Kristin said "the horse says nay" Zach was able to get out a "na" (first time EVER YEAH ZACH!!!!!) but quickly became stuck on "na" and everything was "na" after that. It really hurts to watch him when he is stuck - but the good thing was he was stuck on a new sound! I'm so very proud of all of his hard work!!!! When we got into the car that changed and he was stuck on "be" for the next 2 hours.

We came home, I tried to give him lunch but he only had a couple bites. He was so tired from today, it still amazes me at how much all this play is really, very, hard work. Right now my baby boy is sleeping and I hope he is dreaming about all the progress he made today - with a big smile on his face!