Thematic Thursday

Day 24

Thumbs up Thursday! Today was probably the most successful thumbs up Thursday. The group took many pictures with our thumbs up and we had several toddlers participate in thumbs up Thursday.

This morning we headed over to Eric’s house early to bring the male toddlers over for our morning language session. The film guys filmed the process of bringing them to therapy and well as covering some shots during songs, and other activities during our morning language session. Some of the toddlers were distracted by the big cameras and the men behind them, and others were afraid and cried (Seth) Over all I thought the kids did all right. There were less fits thrown today which is always good. Many of them seemed very clingy, I think the cold weather might have had something to do with it, they don’t like the cold here. After our session was over a group took the kids back to Eric’s house. While we were waiting Tessa and Ashley sat on the kids swings and Dr. Tullos and I took pictures and videos of them being goofy.

Our other morning session went well, but was not filmed. Today I worked with Memory. Memory is a 1 year old twin girl. I have never worked with her before, apparently a lot of the clinicians like her, but I did not. She’s a child that usually gets her way by crying but Mr. Ben doesn’t play that way, so we had time out, and we had walking time, I even passed her off to other clinicians. Eventually I just put her back in her bed, because she was distracting others and getting nowhere. After working with her I worked with Miller and Pauline. They were both great and very entertaining. We practiced sharing and taking turns as well as talking as all ways.

Since today is Thursday we always have our traditional lunch of Shema. It was very good today and there was plenty of delicious sauce to put on it. During lunch, Anna found on her chicken wing, a piece of bone that looked like some sort of claw. We did not decide what it was, but there were many talon references. Part of the table decided that she in fact did not eat chicken but something else, like bat, pigeon and rat. We are not sure exactly. Anna also thought it would be appropriate to poke me with it as well as slip it into my pocket... Thank you Anna.  

Today was also Ian’s birthday! Happy birthday Ian. Today he turned 14. We had chocolate cake with our lunch as well as an exciting evening which I will describe later.

The afternoon sessions went great as always. I worked with Sydney the entire time. She was so much fun. She says “bye” now and waves. It is very cute, and she gets more and more talkative every day. Today during snack time we had bananas, because she is younger than the toddlers I was given the task of breaking up bits of banana and feeding them to her. Come to find out, Sydney really dislikes bananas so I ended up having mushy banana all over my hands, scrubs and shirt. Somehow she came out of the ordeal pretty clean. The film guys wanted some video of me and her interacting. She pulled her classic “deer in the head lights” look in front of the cameras and cried a little. Eventually she ignored them and started interacting.  

Today the end of therapy was rushed. Because of Ian’s birthday, we ate dinner on Jordan’s Rock. Jordan’s rock is a big rounded rock out in the middle of the bush where you can see the sun set and have a nice fire. We cooked hot dogs, took goofy group pictures, jumping pictures, and cooked somors. It was a great evening. We stayed till it got dark and enjoyed each other’s company. Afterwards we drove back to the Hamby place and then looked at all our pictures we have taken of the kids here.

Thank you for all your prayers and support. Please continue to keep us in your prayers.

Thank you.

Ben