Yay for being able to tell me whats wrong...

We had a little drama this afternoon.

Dominic's usual routine is to come home from school on the SPED bus, come inside, set his backpack down, attach his ID lanyard to the backpack, and take his lunchbox the the kitchen.

Today, he came home at the same time as our curren roommate, Tim.  And the bus drove off as he was getting to the door since Tim was out there.  The next thing I knew he was very Agitatedly saying "Mommy, Backpack, backpack" and  was nearly in tears.  He'd forgotton it on the bus.  I called transportation, and his driver came back with it after her run.

So - She told me he forgot it because he was so busy high five-ing all his friends and that she wanted to tell me how much better he has been talking... She is working hard on getting him to independently say "Bye, Miss Mo"

It makes our lives so much easier now that he can tell us whats wrong instead of just screaming, crying and pointing.

Progress people :)

Cooking - and legos

All of you guys know that I believe we've peeled back enough layers of Toxicity (thank you IonCleanse by AMD) that we are finally healing Dominic's viral brain injury.   If you pay close attention you also know that I figured out that the chiropractic miracle over Christmas was a combination of the right nutrition being in his system at the moment that his atlas was adjusted and his body could use it.  This product is a FINISHER, guys, we used it years ago with zero results and it was very hopeful thinking that I started it back up at Thanksgiving.  His body was just primed to be able to actually use it this time.


I increased his dose a week or so ago from 2 pills a day to 3.  
Thursday evening, we were getting his dinner - and therefore Friday's lunch - together, when he looked at me and said "mommy, Jelly".  He was asking for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for his lunch. Okay.  So i helped him make it for himself.  Then he asked for a cucumber.  I decided on a whim to have him help me peel it.  No he did not cut himself, it just looks like he almost did.

I sent that video to our OT, Jonny, who was so impressed by it that he suggested we make today's session about cooking. I asked Dominic if he'd rather make egg cups or corn dogs.  He picked corn dogs. 

Then Saturday night, I had made him a plate and I told him to go heat it in the microwave for one minute.  The next thing I knew, he was saying "Mommy, its not working".  Turns out the fuse had blown.   But - the right tense of the verb???  Knowing something was wrong??? Telling me???  Wow.

Anyway.  Today was corn dog OT day. It was also lego day.  Both of these things he did amazing at, but what was BIGGER than that - was that he went back and forth between activities with zero prompting to refocus.

So...

 

And then he went and stood in the footbath bin, so he's having a footbath right now.

Color me amazed!!

And for the record - we are working on skills for independence.  So he cracked the eggs himself, mixed the cornbread batter himself... we did do hand over hand cutting the hot dogs and he did all the rest himself including putting on the "mittens" for safety.

 

Twelve...

Today is Dominic's twelfth birthday - in many ways it feels like just yesterday we brought a sweet baby home, and in other ways it feels like we have lived three lifetimes in the last 12 years.

Dominic came into our bed about 6:30 to snuggle and as is our family tradition, we opened presents in bed:

 

 

 

 

We were so happy that his therapist Jonny and Jonny's other half, Hanna, joined us at Red Robin for lunch and then the zoo.  It was a fabulous day :)

 

Dominic likes to do "cheers" even more when it's freckled lemonade 

 

Mugging for the camera 

 

Hey man, got any lettuce??

 

Fun with Jonny

 

 

What was hilarious here is that he actually was yelling 

 

 

Fascinated by the wolf pelt...

 

This video totally caught his attention