Thursday, April 30, 2020

Playing

Most all of you know that the part of Dominic's life that has likely suffered the most post regression has been social.  The biggest benefit to us with me watching my friends son afternoons during the pandemic has been Dominic playing, learning to share, etc.  Its been awesome to watch.

Today, tho.  Was special. Dominic had a very oppositional day at school, and Tyler was crabby because I limited his tablet time to 30 minutes at my house.  BUT... eventually they pulled it together.

First, Tyler wore the cape / whatever that is and Dominic "drove" .



Then they traded places....




Then they turned the cape into a bedroom, and each other into TV's.  First Dominic got to watch TylerTV and then Tyler got to watch DominicTV. Then they watched the invisible TV on the ceiling


https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1LYMj9u8NOmtaFU6Ix3G7diMaNl6QCVgg



https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1BEhPT35NfB-mliX5b-JoWyPmbGAU4sKs



https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1TnuWJXwLECA3Q3ki5Xyl2YbXnui_7X6x



What happened next had me nearly bursting into tears, tho. Tyler decided to pretend to be a floppy fish and Dominic joined in!!!  Ya'll don't understand, pretend play has not been a thing he has EVER done. 







Then they built a fort


https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1vYv-fGHsqc2Jik8se8UNC9EzJ9WwX0Ig

And then the fort morphed into a car, which Dominic drove while Tyler rode.



I'm exhausted - all of that occured in under an hour.... -  this is really amazing growth we are seeing.  These are things that have NEVER happened for Dominic.

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