Word World

Sam's current favorite shows are Word World and Super Why! Goes well with his language EXPLOSION! I need to start jotting down new thing he says every day! Yesterday during home ABA therapy he left the living room where the 2 therapists were to come see me in the dining room. When he went back to see them he said 'I'm back'! We were laughing! He's now saying final consonants. Some examples of recent words are; pop, cat, book, up, stop, I get milk (used to call it 'ga'), puppy, cracker, cookie, 'scuse' me for excuse me when he burps, I toot or poop, downstairs, upstairs, horse, dog, duck, pull me, train, bus, spoon, fork, eat, cup, bed, go sleep, I cold or scared, sad, happy, mama's daycare, want, yeah, , here you go, yes...geesh I'm sure there are so many more! He can put words together like Dada go to store to get mama soup. But mostly uses 1-3 words together at a time plus still a lot of jargon. He LOVES doing anything with ABCs and words on the iPad, tv, books and puzzles and of course still loves his beloved trains! He loves school, private speech and his ome therapy. He has 10 hours of ABA therapy over M-Th (applied behavioral anaysis for autism) at home. He's doing so well with the home therapy that I wonder if the 10 hours is too much. The lead therapist has to keep updating his programs. They are going to help us with potty training which we tried last weekend and he clearly wasn't ready. He will be 4 on March 29th. Where does the time go?

Sam has the funniest sense of humor and the best timing for things. Trying to think of examples...He will call me Dada on purpose and I will call him Chloe (our cat). I will call him something like puppy or silly and he will say 'no I'm Sam'! Lol!

He can spell Samuel and count up to 30. He says the ABCs all the time and yesterday clearly said S and W (all 3 syllables). We are now teaching him his last name and age and then will move onto address and phone #.

He tells us when he's sad or scared. Yesterday when he came home from school I asked him what he did and he said 'E'. I opened his school bag and there was a letter puppet E! Monday he was home with Steve and I had to work. I came home and asked him what they did. He said 'go to store' (just 1 thing they did). I can't believe he is starting to tell me things that he does when I'm not with him! A few days ago he asked for crackers but we didnt have any of his left. He said 'I go to store to get crackers'. So smart!

He will tell us if he's cold but will not wear socks once he's shoes are off. He will not use any blankets or pillows in his bed but will use them in ours. He actually slept 2x in our bed this past week when he woke up sick during the night. I still can't believe he kept still! He would never stay still and lay down to cuddle with us a few months ago! And now he gives kisses all the time! Love it! Teaching I'm how to say love! So far we get 'uv'. I will take whatever we get!