Did You Know?

All About Owen

- he's been fully and independently toilet trained since before the summer with not even a pull-up overnight?! (no more diapers after 9 years for Mom and Dad!)
- he has started to try and vocalize sounds for the first time in two years and can now proudly say bye, hat, hi, happy, eat and bottle.
- he had his first time off from a home-based therapy program this summer- a whole summer off to be a normal kid!
- he gets his hair cut regularly with no tantrums! clippers and scissors.
- after dentist visits every 3 months to get used to the office, people and equipment, he is now allowing the dentist to scrape his teeth!
- he is this close to dunking his head under water in the bath and in the pool. Nose and mouth are in there so it won't be long!
- remember the kid who couldn't walk three steps without falling down or who couldn't bend his head backwards? Check him out now:

- he is choosing to use sign language and learning and communicating more words and phrases every day.
- he is finally showing an interest, and identifying the letters of the alphabet and colours
- thanks to grandparents, he now has an ipod touch and is using Proloquo2go to communicate with a voice 
and I use

 

for visual schedules with him.
- his eye contact is incredible and his connection with people is really remarkable (that doesn't mean he won't take a few days to get used to you first). 
- he's mischievous like his younger brother, Will. Whenever something disappears in the house- you can guarantee that it is stashed away in his room and the item is most likely something precious to someone: Will's favourite stuffies, Jake's favourite book, the remote control.. And in the past month, Mom's glasses have been bent in half, an entire tube of toothpaste has been emptied and squeezed throughout the bathroom, Mom's storage of files have been pulled out from under the bed and thrown scattered throughout her room and just tonight, a whole tube of Jake's temporary electric blue hair dye was dumped and ground into our (already-destroyed) beige carpet. And although the damages are great, inside I'm smiling.



Because all of this is a sign of great things to come. Teachers and aides alike are all declaring that this is his year. The year of the break-through.

Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time. ~Deborah Chaskin

It's Owen's time.