So I woke up to hearing Nathan chatting in his room. The thing I noticed is that I understood some of what he was saying. No way, wow, yeah, I have never really sat and listened to his morning babble but I could understand some of it. I heard letters as well. So when I went to check on him, we saw his flashlight. Now while it may be a flashlight, we actually use it as a microphone and sing into it. Which he remember. I use it at night when he cries and it lights up my face while I sing. So I sang some Elvis for him this morning and then I gave it to him for his song and he said 1-2. Which made me laugh. He doesn't really know a song so we did head shoulders knees and toes and he tried again. He didn't get the words right but he did get the tune. Cracked me up. He sang while I changed his diaper and we had another poop. More solid this time. Rust colored but still very loose. Salsa like. Sorry world more poop talk.
We got up and got the day started with playing with our shape shorter in the sun room. This was a challenge for him. The shape sorter is a fancy room with the top open and you stick the shapes through the sides. Stupid design. Nathan liked dancing to the music and wanted to drop them in through the top. With lots of assistance and showing, he figured it out. But it was not easy. At one point he tried to pick up one of the car play sets and I redirected him to the shape sorter and he had a break down. He left the room and cried and threw himself down several times. I ignored the tantrum and he came back to play with me. When he worked with the shape sorter again successfully I offered him the play set and he simply ignored it and went about play. It amused me since just a moment before it was worth the tantrum over. He dumped out his larger Lego's and as usual he spent more time pulling them apart and crashing them around. But I was able to get his attention and showed him how to build a tower and he helped add to the block tower and it got very tall. This is the first time he helped and did not have to take down what I was building. We found a chicken mixed in with the blocks and we had a great time talking about how the chicken goes bock bock. Which turned into the chicken dance. I showed him the dance with lots lots of flapping and marching in a circle. Lifting one leg at a time. Nate laughed and danced and didn't really get it. But loved it. So after lots of chicken dance we sat down to build again. While we were playing I noticed he kept grabbing his shirt with his fingers and flapping his arms and I realised he was doing the dance. So up again and more chicken dance. Good stuff. He also mastered letting the dog out. He has done it three times today. Understands when I say, please let the dog out. I am going to try it when he gets up from his nap but from a different room. So the cool part was when I asked him if he wanted to read a book and he sat down next to me on the couch and we read a book about Spot the dog. It has flaps and Nathan enjoyed lifting them to see the other animal underneath it. Spot was at the end of the book. He sat through it multiple times without distraction. I went on to read another book about ears which he understood the ear part but he kept looking at the Spot book. I had gone through the book and showed him all the animals and had named them and the noises they made. And while I was reading the second book he lifted the flaps and said monkey and pointed to the monkey. I was pretty pleased. He also lifted the panels and read NO off the page where the animals were saying NO, they were not Spot. Then he lifted the snake's door and said SSSSSS, which was what I told him the snake said. So I felt like it was a victory. After the book and blocks, we had some breakfast. I asked him if he wanted something to eat and he took off for the kitchen. No issues understanding food for sure. While he sat on the counter I got him some Trix together. We have removed all food distractions from our kitchen. There is no candy, cookies, or other crap. Too often he gets distracted by wanting crap food and miss the chance to eat good stuff. So I have him Trix in a bowl, with milk and a spoon. We often give him food in a bag and let him wonder eating it. Now he is required to eat at his table or in the kitchen on the counter. The counter is nice so that I can do other things while he eats. He had some issues with using his spoon and he kept trying to eat with his hand. I had to redirect him several times to use the spoon and finally noticed he needed retraining. Which we did. It went much better after training. He also kept grabbing my arm to help him with the spoon to make sure it got to this mouth okay. He ate two bowls of the cereal and wanted a third. I looked at his bulging belly and stopped him at two. While he ate, I got the kitchen picked up dished put away and I even got some counting in my juggling cups while he laughed. I am hoping we master the number 3. Maybe even sneak in a 4. Since I know we already know 5.
So next step at about 10:30 was letters. We sat at the table and worked with the puzzle and bag of letters. He knew that F made the FFFF sound. And he knew that on the big and little F. Knows N,T,Y,O by sight. So he got out his dragon from his happy meal yesterday so I showed him how DRAGON was spelled with his letters and then told him the letters. He mimicked me by saying the letters. He did not get them all right but did get D G and O, and added an E. He also did say a letter for each one not just the right one. He also was able to make the dragon spark repeatedly after instruction given. Next we played with his train and connected five of the pieces together. We then counted them. 1-5. He counted with me through two and then said 5. And he pointed at the #1 on Thomas and looked confused since we had just called him #5. It was amusing.
When we picked up the alphabet I asked him to give me the bag that the letters came in. He understood we were looking for something and kept checking under the couch for it. But did not understand I wanted the bag next to him. I pointed again and he got it. We celebrated and then picked up which he helped me with. As he picked up, he added K to his knowledge base.
One thing I am amused by is his mimicking. He has seen me with a coffee cup lately because I have a cold and have been drinking tea. So know he wants a coffee cup to drink from. I gave him one of out blue smaller ones and he has been using it for two days. funny boy.
He has been interacting with the dog more. When Jasper stood in the window and growled Nathan had to go over and investigate what was going on outside. It made me laugh to have both of them standing there checking out the outdoors. too bad the weather is cold or we would go out.
He only brought me the remote once and that was when I let him have some free time with his cars. At about 12:30 I let him play alone while I picked up all the other toys and put them away. He wanted some TV and I just ignored the request and moved on. From now on they will be put away. No more distractions.
Okay nap time at 1. I am tired even if he isn't. Went down without too much issue.
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