Tidbits

Bullet lists are my best friend when I have little things to share but nothing that can really be it's own blog post.

• Today I was watching my children as they laid out couch cushions all over the floor to crash on.  They pulled out the therapy ball to bounce on.  Then seconds later they were crawling through the caterpillar tunnel that Brian just got for Christmas.  Autism sucks but I'm amazed at how much we've implemented in our life that I truly love- like crazy deep pressure/crashing time.  I'm sure some people would think we are crazy for doing that type of play every day but I couldn't imagine it any other way.

• At the boys' school they have a program that allows them to introduce a new fruit/vegetable every week.  Today was apples.  Brian can't have apples, though he loves apples.  He handled it well- threw his banana so hard against the wall it split open.  Then he ate his pear.  

• Brian's father bought him an iPad.  His favorite app so far is his Splatter Art one.  I'm always amazed at how much more knowledge he shares with us when it's presented in some sort of electronic form.  Things like categories- when given paper flash cards or just asked questions he'll barely get them right.  Put a category game onto a computer (or iPad) and he will be 100% correct with it.  Still hesitating to use it as an AAC device as we are still waiting on our full report from his recent AAC evaluation.

• Tonight Corbin announced that he was never going to want to kiss a girl (when seeing a character on TV do so).  I asked Brian if he was ever going to kiss a girl and he smiled and said "Mmmm hmmmm". Oh no.