Friday, September 19, 2008

An Update on Joey

Potty training is going well. He does all his pee on the potty when he is diaper-less and is now letting us know when he has to use the potty if he has a pull up on and can get the pull up down to use the potty. He also lets us know when he has already peed, and is sometimes waking up dry from naps and bed. We are going to try under wear this weekend.

School is also going well. He takes the bus to school now. He is doing better naming body parts, and can communicate his needs much better now without needing to be spoken for or prompted. I'm glad of how well he is doing, but at the same time it's sad to realize how delayed he is in speech compared to other delayed children, let alone "average" children his age. We started doing pictures schedules with him recently too, and those seem to really be helping him.

3 comments:

Anne Elizabeth said...

It sounds like he is doing really well with Potty training! I hope this weekend goes well with underwear. Does he like riding the bus?

Little Mrs Sunshine said...

yeah! he loves riding the bus! I think having a more predictable schedule has been great for him. He loves the pictures schedules we started too :) he goes to them on his own for constant reference - but he's always asking to go on the bus now since he sees the picture! LOL

Anne Elizabeth said...

That is so cute! I should do the picture schedules with Buddy. How do you do that?