Noah does not like to say greetings of any kind - hi/goodbye/hello/good night - none of it. he also doesn't say please/thank you. We're working on changing this, but now, that's the situation. Josh asked Noah if he said hello to his friend when they met at the park. "No, I don't do that," was his reply. When he sees someone he knows, (and also sometimes strangers,) he just starts talking. "We saw the trash truck on the way to school! So many times it stopped and we watched it!"
Another thing: Noah doesn't like tigers, because "they try to eat me sometimes. And I don't like that."
I'm not sure if it's related to his age or the sun or what, but he has some new freckles. They are on different parts of his body. I noticed them a few days ago and I told him. Then last night he said he found another one. It's right here, on the chest - see this thing? New freckle! "No," I told him, "that's your nipple. You have two of them, on your chest."
"Mama" and "Daddy" are three syllable words.
Mama = mow ama
Daddy = deiti
Noah is recognizing the letter "O" in a lot of books and signs we see. He calls them "zero's" but he is noticing them. Sometimes he also sees "X's" and "I's" and "Z's".
There are a lot of one-word-demands, and stubbornness about not asking for things nicely. He'll say: (or often whine) "Water!!!!" or "Eat!!!" Sometimes it's a few words, like "Want food now!!" Usually we don't react or we'll say, "What about water? Do you see water somewhere?" until eventually he'll say "Want to drink water!!!!" and then we'll maneuver him with words to say that he wants to drink some water now, and can we help him get a cup and pour it for him, please. But there will be no "please" unless we move his hand in the baby sign for please. Noah is really really stubborn about this, and is more likely to go without than to ask. He skipped breakfast for this once.
We are open to ideas about how to handle this - it doesn't seem like what we're doing is working. It was his therapist's idea to move his hand to say "please." Josh managed to get Noah to do do the "please" sign remotely, pretending there's a magnet on his hand and when josh moves HIS hand, Noah will move his hand to say "please."
The granola incident: Noah started whining granola. we refused unless he asks nicely, or even if he says "granola?" without a whine, he could have it. There was refusal, and eventually we distracted w/other things. He pretended he had a library and I needed to check out books. I said I wanted a book called "granola" and could he say the name of the book? He did, and it wasn't a whine, so I tricked him into saying it, but he still didn't want the granola to eat b/c he said it meaning the book and he insisted, so he went without breakfast.
Another interesting thing: we got a book from the library called Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie. It's about the different moods we have, and how the main character is only one person, but sometimes the sour-puss side of her comes out, while other times it's the sweetie pie side. We talked about when WE feel like a sweetie-pie and a sourpus. He sort of understood but we couldn't talk about hypothetical examples. Whenever I said, "IF I fell down and skinned my knee, I would feel..." He kept explaining that I DIDN"T fall down. Or asking WHY I fell down one time. He couldn't understand the situation hypothetically.
He's going to be a giraffe for Halloween and I'll attach pictures...
Another thing: Noah doesn't like tigers, because "they try to eat me sometimes. And I don't like that."
I'm not sure if it's related to his age or the sun or what, but he has some new freckles. They are on different parts of his body. I noticed them a few days ago and I told him. Then last night he said he found another one. It's right here, on the chest - see this thing? New freckle! "No," I told him, "that's your nipple. You have two of them, on your chest."
"Mama" and "Daddy" are three syllable words.
Mama = mow ama
Daddy = deiti
Noah is recognizing the letter "O" in a lot of books and signs we see. He calls them "zero's" but he is noticing them. Sometimes he also sees "X's" and "I's" and "Z's".
There are a lot of one-word-demands, and stubbornness about not asking for things nicely. He'll say: (or often whine) "Water!!!!" or "Eat!!!" Sometimes it's a few words, like "Want food now!!" Usually we don't react or we'll say, "What about water? Do you see water somewhere?" until eventually he'll say "Want to drink water!!!!" and then we'll maneuver him with words to say that he wants to drink some water now, and can we help him get a cup and pour it for him, please. But there will be no "please" unless we move his hand in the baby sign for please. Noah is really really stubborn about this, and is more likely to go without than to ask. He skipped breakfast for this once.
We are open to ideas about how to handle this - it doesn't seem like what we're doing is working. It was his therapist's idea to move his hand to say "please." Josh managed to get Noah to do do the "please" sign remotely, pretending there's a magnet on his hand and when josh moves HIS hand, Noah will move his hand to say "please."
The granola incident: Noah started whining granola. we refused unless he asks nicely, or even if he says "granola?" without a whine, he could have it. There was refusal, and eventually we distracted w/other things. He pretended he had a library and I needed to check out books. I said I wanted a book called "granola" and could he say the name of the book? He did, and it wasn't a whine, so I tricked him into saying it, but he still didn't want the granola to eat b/c he said it meaning the book and he insisted, so he went without breakfast.
Another interesting thing: we got a book from the library called Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie. It's about the different moods we have, and how the main character is only one person, but sometimes the sour-puss side of her comes out, while other times it's the sweetie pie side. We talked about when WE feel like a sweetie-pie and a sourpus. He sort of understood but we couldn't talk about hypothetical examples. Whenever I said, "IF I fell down and skinned my knee, I would feel..." He kept explaining that I DIDN"T fall down. Or asking WHY I fell down one time. He couldn't understand the situation hypothetically.
He's going to be a giraffe for Halloween and I'll attach pictures...
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