The pressure is ON

All in all, it was a good week. Monday was an anomaly. B didn't get held up by crying/tantruming the rest of the week. We know this because we are tediously tracking every event. He did great - cruising through his objectives and having a good time doing it. He kicked out some words: Buzz (as in Lightyear), Out (as in take me outside in this beautiful weather), More, boat, row (actually sort of singing along to row, row, row your boat). I think there may have been more. AND, he started walking down the stairs facing forward. He was always a back down-er before. This wasn't something he was taught - he just tried it out and never went back (no pun intended). Pretty cool.

Also, his big brother is paying attention to him in a whole new way. I think the increased focus on B so far has actually been a good thing. On the way to school one day, "Mommy, is B getting teached so he can come to school with me some time?" And on the way home another day, "I want to go home and see my friend, B". It melts my heart.

I had another intense week but it was oh-so-much better with hubby in town. I did several sessions of parent training and taught my own session for a couple of hours yesterday. That brings me to the pressure part: I am supposed to do a couple of sessions with B this weekend to see if it makes an impact on the Monday effect. No pressure there, right? I was told to think of it as an experiment but it feels like "let's see if Mom can be a good enough therapist that he won't feel like he's had 2 days off". Hubby will take the big boy out so we have sufficient 1-1 time as there is NO way for me to effectively do it with only half my attention. Wish me luck. I think I'm going to need it.