Me Oh My-17 More Days!!!!

WOW!! I cant believe how this month is flying by.....tomorrow Dh has a Daddy /Daughter date and I plan on finishing up any Christmas I have forgotten down in Brigham.

Our house is all Christmasy! WHOOT!! But darn weather-its been raining and its melted almost all of our snow-I hate soggy, yucky ground weather....Id much rather have SNOW!!!! Just not tom though...okay!:)

Stingers best friend from school has moved back-man we sure were missing him-especially Stinger....so its all good at school-really good infact. He's still doing really well-all A's and B's :)And he is really looking forward to having him come over and play soon-maybee even a sleep-over.....wow-eh?

Monkey Boy and Flamingo are crazy as all get out-especially when they start feeling Christmas-which in our house isnt hard to do-LOLOLOL They are sooo excited and I love seeing their excited faces. They are both doing really well in school as well. Monkey boy is getting a pizza prize tom at school for doing really well on a test he took:) Hes very proud abt that.

Something got me thinking tnight though...abt Stinger and how well he is doing.. Hes still having a really tough time with conversations with certain people etc, strangers. I know he wants to say something and can-just I dont know if he knows what-ya know...its kinda hard to describe... I read something on one of my email lists with Aspies which I am going to try and do which is exactly what Stinger needs to work on....

"Hi ------,
We have worked quite a bit on conversation. I have a stack of index cards, each with a conversation topic (such as current movies, favorite books, favorite toys, what did you do yesterday, mom, dad, grandparents, rollerskating, the beach, etc).
I used a lot of ideas from Teach Me Language by Sabrina Freeman and Lorelei Dake. I pick up a topic at random and say a comment (My mom lives in California) and then my son is to say a comment on the topic (My mom lives in Naperville). Work up to 6 exchanges.
Now we are working on a comment-question format. My son is to start the conversation by making a comment on the topic and asking me a question. I answer the question. Then me makes a comment on my answer and asks another question. I answer. He comments and asks a question, I answer (6 turns).
(copyrighted material - Teach Me Language by Sabrina Freeman and Lorelei Dake)
Currently, I use 3 stacks of cards. The green stack has conversation openers ("Hi guys!" "Hi, what's up?" and "Excuse me.") The middle stack has 3 cards with conversation topics. The red stack has conversation closers ("Hey, there's my mom. I have to go" "It's been cool talking to you. Later" "Bye-bye.") He chooses an opener from the green stack, then chooses a conversation, and then a conversation closer. This teaches him how to start and end conversations, and also teaches conversation flexibility.
We also practice conversations he can have with specific people. For example - we are going to see Teegan and she has a pet rabbit. What questions can you ask her about her rabbit (what is the rabbit's name, how long has she had the rabbit, where did she get the rabbit, etc). I tell him that he can only say 2 things about his special interest, so I try to give him other things to talk about.
I hope this helps."


Stinger really struggles with openers and closers-inbetween conversations he does really well at, or he has really improved on...but say he sees me come to pick him up-he wont say goodbye or anything to the teacher etc-he will just leave-ya know...Same thing when he sees someone...So I think I will try this-its a really good idea dont you think?

Anyway-just some catch up...I havent been on her much-Ive been watching Glenn...LOLOLOL

But I will update when I can :)