Dominic has a hippo fixation right now. Its funny because as a baby the Hippos at the zoo scared him so bad he refused to even go in the Hippo house for a couple of years. Anyway, he's had various animated shows with hippos on them, but the other day I noticed BBC America was running a discovery-channel-esque show on a Hippos life. A real hippo. I figured we'd give it a shot and see if he liked it.
He watched it this morning. Commercials and All. Figured out how to start it again on the DVR by himself and watched it a second time. I hung with him the second time and the verbals were really amazing. He was doing tons of labeling all the way through. I heard multiples of each of the below words in the course of about 10 minutes - all appropriately (no scripting - which is exciting)
Night
Sleeping
Swimming
baby
Red (for the sunrise)
alligator
water
shake it (for tail shaking)
Poop
Fighting
Lion
eating
Fish
scary (when there were hippo fights)
I also recorded off the same series episodes on Monkeys and Penguins. We'll see if they are as enthralling. Its been a long time (pre-regression) since he actually enjoyed and attended to in its entirety a non-animated tv show. Interesting twist. :)
He watched it this morning. Commercials and All. Figured out how to start it again on the DVR by himself and watched it a second time. I hung with him the second time and the verbals were really amazing. He was doing tons of labeling all the way through. I heard multiples of each of the below words in the course of about 10 minutes - all appropriately (no scripting - which is exciting)
Night
Sleeping
Swimming
baby
Red (for the sunrise)
alligator
water
shake it (for tail shaking)
Poop
Fighting
Lion
eating
Fish
scary (when there were hippo fights)
I also recorded off the same series episodes on Monkeys and Penguins. We'll see if they are as enthralling. Its been a long time (pre-regression) since he actually enjoyed and attended to in its entirety a non-animated tv show. Interesting twist. :)
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