Making Progress

Nathan's Preschool Picture

Nathan was in the typical classroom playing at the sensory table with some tissue paper.  He walked across the classroom, grabbed a little boy by the hand, and lead him back to the sensory table.  Nathan told the little boy, "Look!" That may not seem huge to most people, but Nathan rarely seeks out a friend to play with him.  It's so awesome to see the progress he's making with his peer interactions!

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On the first snow day of the year, both Evy and Nathan were standing at our sliding glass door looking in awe at the snow.  Nathan turned, looked Evy in the eye and said, "Evy I like it. Snow."It's so sweet to see him talking to his sister.

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We had Nathan's parent teacher conferences.  Nathan's teacher from the typically developing side was telling me he's become really great buddies with another little boy.  Even though Nate can't really talk with his friend, they just click and do so many things together.  It makes me so so so happy to see him making friends.

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I was loading Nathan into the car and I asked Nathan, "Have you been good so Santa can bring you presents?"  I got an enthusiastic, "Yes! Yes! Yes!" in reply.  We have been really struggling with Nathan responding to yes and no questions so getting 3 yeses made me beyond excited!

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We were driving around doing some errands and Nathan said something in the backseat that I didn't understand.  He said it again and this time I caught that he was saying, "Heavenly Father." So we had a little conversation about how Heavenly Father loves Nathan.  He must be listening to all our prayers we've been saying with him.