Archer made an exchange/Archer waved goodbye

Last night, Archer wanted to eat popcorn. Lisa covered some popcorn with her hand. Archer took a toy, shuffled it in Lisa's hand, and then went on to take the popcorn away. He was making an exchange, just like what we do to him when we want to remove something from his hand.

Archer waved goodbye to me tonight. It's for sure now that he knows how to wave goodbye.

Archer mimicked our words

Went to the speech therapist’s this morning. It’s the first time that Archer didn’t cry. When we did a picture exchange for rings, Archer mimicked the word “ring” once. When we did a picture exchange for shapes of a shape sorter, Archer mimicked over 5 times a resemblance of the word “shape”. When we left the therapist’s home, he also waved good-bye. I now suspect that he really mimicked the words “Ye Ye” when he saw grandpa as he came home. This new development is so encouraging that it compensates his recent reduction of attention span.

Protein

Alpha has a bad habit of pricking his own fingers. One of the fingers bled and he said he needs protein to get his finger healed. He wanted an egg for dinner that night.

Alpha the Incredible

Archer at SunnyHill

From Constance:
Archer has his primary assessment at the Sunnyhill Health Centre today. We won't know the result. But I have to say that he did well today. It's a lot of activities that he has to do in order for the psychologist to assess him. He was tired after the assessment, so were Alan and I.