Thumbs Up

Lyla has started to give me "thumbs up" daily as the bus drives off to school. I was so excited when she started doing it, she remembered something that I did to try to understand if she was happy or not with whatever it was at the time. For weeks she been doing this now and at my monthly meeting with her team I learned that they've been giving "thumbs up/thumbs down" for healthy choices and I have to say my heart was a tad crushed. Then I realized, it doesn't matter where she picked it up, it's our "thing", just ours, and whether or not she knows what it means, she connects it to our daily routine.

Parts of our routine are starting to spark some language!

Getting Lyla ready for school this morning, I put on her new diaper, 
L: "Munchee" (there's a monkey on her diapers)
Me: "Yes! It's a monkey!" (my back and forth continued like this I'll spare you reading after each one.)
Socks on...L: "Sock.....Sock" 
Pants on...L: "Mittens"
Me: "Mittens? No, these are your pants!" L: "Pants."
Shoes on...L: "Shoe...Shoe."
Stand up to put on shirt...L: "Mittens!!"
Me: "No not mittens, shirt!" L: "SHIRT!"
Lyla runs to the mirror and sizes herself up and down, "Yay!"

These things are so small, yet so HUGE for Lyla. I'm so glad she is getting all her therapies and schooling, I don't know where we'd be today without it.

Thumbs Up!