Manage to take a video of Stephen doing imitation. Was doing quite a bit of imitation this week. As I run around the rebouncer, he will also follow me. I stop he stop, I lie down, he will also do that. When I purposely position myself to run off again, he will say "go".

We also play the hiding behind the wall game while he was very much into following and anticipating my re-appearance. He kind of enjoy it and a lot of substainable eye contact.

I have also observed that he has been responding to a lot of request made by us, even during time that he was engaged in TV, he responded to "come and have water, come here, change dryper, etc" He wouldn't do this previously. Sometime I will just call his name and mostly he will respond by looking up at me (where the voice come from).

we have also observe that we need to be gentle with him, if not he will get irritated fast. Interestingly he will beat me when I say "no" or "cannot" or its equalivent when he wants to do something that I disapprove.

The next stage is really working with him in starting to verbalize to communicate to us. Joanna seem to have a lot of words out of him in conversation. I only get some for nursery singing.

We also observed that he is having more imagination and pretend play. He following children to play. Like at his cousin's birthday party, the children play "London bridge" and he followed them. When was watch Barney climbing the tree in the VCD, he actually try to climb the wall column at home.

going to school last week has been easier as Stephen would walk from the home to the car, and school to car, car to home again. Now we got to work on car to school. Was wondering if it is because of the body checking that got him into the habit bec the first few time in school, he walked willingly.

we also did pillow throwing and bear throwing. The whole idea arise from the fact that he like to throw thing he don't like away. So when he throw from the bed down, I will throw it up again. We did this for a while until he throw it to another side so that I cannot throw back to him again. This is enjoyable and allow much eye contact. It also help me realize he is a "thinking boy". There was once when we throw bear and after a few round, he purposely throw it at the end of the bed and I cannot reach it. Witty fellow.

Thank God for his improvement thus far. I think it is quite observe that he is enjoying people more and more responsive. His teacher at school have also observed it.

His teacher told us that there was once in school when his teacher took him to play with other children, he saw a child taking a picture of "mamee noodle" pass it to his teacher and the teacher gave a packet of noodle to the child. So when the boy finished using the picture, he actually did the same thing to everyone's surprise and got himself a packet of noodle for tea too. This is the "picture exchange communication system.

so much for now. More happy sharing to come.