Turn taking
Stephen still welcome the playing of play doo. Of course in arranging the things inside. He was able to wait for me to pass to him all the items inside. What I did was to intentionally slow down the process but moderating so that he does not get frustrated. I also mention the name of the objects as I pass to him, also bring the items to my eye level.

He just has a new found interest in fruits. We got a bag of plastic fruits that he likes to take out. He will put the fruits he wants nicely and those he doesn’t want, he will throw away. He especially likes the pineapples. He will take the big one and pass me the small own (when he first stated, he will take all. let’s hope he is sharing with me, maybe he don’t want it so pass to me. ha ha. I will take the opportunity to say the name of the items, introduce opposite for the pineapple. Also try to pass fruits to him instead of him picking up. Once he was able to put the fruits (a few) back into the bags when I ask him and show him “throw into bag”.

He also like the Chinese puzzle that Joanna opened for him. He is arranging them so we will see who will be the first to get him interest in doing the actual puzzle.

We did a new play, inspired from the pillow up and down play. I took a plastic drum stick from the floor said “up” and throw it to the floor, said “down” and he enjoyed and say with me. I then pass it to him to throw and he enjoyed the action and speech as he throws it to the floor. Give it a try.


New word/use of word
Was doing finger counting with him. “1-10” and he try to say” finger”. Don’t sound perfect yet but no doubt that he was trying to pronounce it. He also enjoyed the ticklish feeling on his finger.

Was at the play ground. Said “swin”g only a few times to get the swinging effect and revert to “go” guess it is easier to say. At one stage, he was very cranky and “woo” so loud that I think the neighbourhood might think that I am trying to kidnap him. If it ever happened, the kidnappers to release him before the day is over. Once he wanted me to carry him and walk. So I purposely stop say “stop” and introduce “walk” to him. He refused to say “walk” instead just “woo”. Then I told him that he can say “go” too and he started to use “go” to activate the walking. His most frequently used words is “go” with different meaning in different context.