Baking with Grammy & Mama - August 14th, 2015

It has been an interesting week with lack of sleep for all of us but so thankful Ashley continues to say new sounds/words each day! Some of her new sounds came from singing Veggie Tales theme song and the Bubble Guppies theme song! I also thought it would be fun to have 3 generations in the kitchen baking cookies from scratch...However, it had too many steps for Ashley but at least we tried! It was fun to experience that for the first time!

Saturday

Ashley had major sleep issues over the weekend so she was up about 4-5 times each night. She was very tired and low energy just like the rest of us. She didn't say too much so there is not too much to report. She didn't even make her happy sounds. She was not sick and we have always had sleeping issues since she was a baby.

She had fun sessions with Brogan, daddy and me! She liked spinning items and water play outside. She said "water, mama, wazawa, and new-jew-jew" (this sound was repeated a lot).

Sunday

In session with Miranda, Ashley played tickles, tug-of-war with pool noodle, looked at books, played with balls and said "moo" which is a different sound. At lunch she said "trash" and "ba" for banana. She had a blast at pool with daddy and somehow got extra energy to play there! :)

Monday

Ashley got to break the eggs again doing hand over hand, pour, stir wet ingredients, and dumb in dry ingredients for breakfast treat. Noah loves to watch! We got to enjoy outside water play with the sprinkler head she loves to run through now.

In sessions with Wendy and Kimberly, she enjoyed the spray bottles and worked on word squeeze.  She was lower energy but still made some good eye contact. She said "eee" for squeeze 6 times, "mmm" when eating nuggets, and then she said "chick-n" for chicken nuggets!! When singing Veggie Tales theme song several times, she said "oh-gu-lee" for Broccoli and "edgeee" for Veggie!

In speech, she said "I want" and worked on following directions. She also said "trash" and "Awesome" that evening.

Tuesday

She slept much better so she was almost back to her full energy today. In session with Tracy and Becky, she said "more, want, I want, eat, drink, no (when asked if wanted juice), water (when spraying water mist toy)".

During the day, she said "ee" for eat, "juice", "ooh" for open, "eee" for squeeze, and "trash". Ashley enjoyed making her own pizza again and cutting up strawberries.

At swim lessons, she said "reach" 3 times, "water" for water fall and "on" after I said shoes on when leaving.

Wednesday

In sessions with Tracy, Kimberly and me, Ashley said "up, eat, more, want, chi-chi (for chicken), Dora, booh(for book), nak (for snack). There were a lot more sounds today and it seems like she is testing all her sounds!

Tracy introduced a new Son-Rise game using old fun crazy socks and we hid different objects inside. Some included snacks so she was motivated to keep asking for socks and find what was inside. One of them included Strawberry Pop Rocks candy and she loved those popping in her mouth! Then we used socks to throw them up in the air and then stuffed socks with others to make a pillow sock fight!

In the evening Ashley said "tuh" for Tinker Bell and "ruh" for run.


Thursday

Today in sessions with Tracy, Becky, and me, Ashley said "want, I want, more, up, eeee (eat for snack), dan (for dance), meme (for sesame street book), mon (for Monsters book), boooh (for book), . waki (copying Tracy saying walking), meo (for milk)." At lunch Ashley said "juice" and "chuh" 3 times for a chicken nugget piece.

We also got to enjoy part of our afternoon outside with water play. She said "water" 2 times with no prompting for hose and "balloon" once. At swim lessons, she said "reach, ju (for jump), no (when answering question)."

Before we left for swim lessons, I thought it would be fun for Grammy, Ashley and I to make cookies together from scratch. This is the first time all 3 generations were in the kitchen baking together! She enjoyed pouring the ingredients, squishing butter with her hands, and stirring with small measuring spoon! However, making it from scratch had too many steps for Ashley and she was eager to get to chocolate chips.:)  At least we tried and brought some cookies to Ms. Allison at swim lessons!

Friday

Today Ashley said "trash, more, chuh (once for chicken nugget piece)." At speech with Mrs. Brooke, Ashley was really motivated by some games that Brooke let her pick from the closet. I love that our speech therapists use Hanen method which is play based and child led by their interests! She said "more di (for more ducks), Awesome!, Okay, water wash (for water splash), more muck (for more duck), on, quack-quack,  watch, cwass (for class), help me, & yeah." Wow! She had an amazing speech session with ALL those words!

In session with me she said "wape (twice for grape), ba-per (for cracker) & ba-buh babies (singing the Bubble Guppies song)". She also got a hair cut and this was the best one ever since she followed directions and did not throw a fit like she normally does. She sat so still with her dum-dum while getting hair cut so it was a very pleasant and stress free experience! You can tell from the picture she was ready to leave.