More of the good stuff

It has been quite a week around here. We had a ginormous snow storm - something like the 5th largest...I could be totally making that up but suffice it to say, it was a LOT of snow. We were basically snowed in for 3 days. Hubby had to make it out of town through a series of very annoying and difficult hurdles so the boys and I were on our own for a few days. Then my big guy got a stomach bug followed by a doozy cold. Bring on the Christmas vacation!

Things are happening so fast and furious around here that it's hard to keep up. The singing is still totally taking off. He probably has over 10 songs that he sings now. Yesterday, he was even hearing songs for the first time and trying to sing them. This is a huge step. Kids learn by imitation. B is missing that ability. If he can learn to imitate, he can be taught so many things including language/communication. I have yet to get any of it on video (why do they always turn off as soon as a camera comes out?) but it is so fun and so amazing. He sings the complete ABCS including the "now I know my abc" part, twinkle twinkle little star, Elmo's song, a couple of muppets songs, some of the toy story theme song, a couple of songs from a group called super simple songs on Youtube and still more.

Since he seems to be responding so well to videos, our team tested out something new today. They videotaped themselves doing simple things (SUPER simple like putting arms out or spinning or tapping on a table). B then watched the DVD and imitated what they were doing. He seemed to totally get it. It was amazing to watch. I can't even put it into words because it sounds SO simple but he has never copied anything we've tried to teach him. He just didn't seem to comprehend the concept. To see him figure this out with barely a prompt was fascinating. I am in awe of our team. Obviously, it's a whole lot more work to film these things, put them on a dvd and THEN teach to B. vs. teaching 1-1   in person.  My confidence in them grows by the day.

Tonight, when hubby put B to bed, he labeled at least 5 or 6 things when Daddy pointed to them (frog, dog, ball, duck, car, boat, cat) and then POINTED himself to the buttons in his Thomas book and named them (Thomas, Percy, Bus, Helicopter). Someone pinch me.

On the flip side, he has been on a bit of a food strike and waking up in the night pretty consistently again. It's certainly a roller coaster and a marathon. But as long as he keeps giving us these awesome bits of glory, we're not about to jump off the ride.