Snakes and Spoons

Today I knew we would have the small room so I packed the "washable" markers, picture books, coloring books, crayons, New Year's whistles and clay. I was curious if Maxx had outgrown his fear of the clay.

I brought some animal crackers as part of the snack and Ty liked them a lot. So much so that I had to put aside some for Maxx. Ty did understand that some were for Maxx. The boys have been having issues with sharing lately.

Maxx was not as interested in the crackers so he gave some back to me and some to Ty.

Ty enjoyed the New Years whistle. He was able to blow it hard enough to get the paper to unroll. He still doesn't have enough lung capacity to get it to whistle so he would make his own whistling sound. He liked getting close to either me or the translator and let the paper hit us on the cheek.

Maxx liked to pretend he was eating out of the empty bowl from the crackers. He liked playing with the bag from the clay and putting his whistle and spoon in the bag.

Ty found a plastic key in my backpack which he used to pretend he was locking and unlocking the door to our room. I got out the clay and showed him how he could make an impression of the key in the clay. He wasn't sure about it at first but quickly liked making the impressions. I got out a spoon and showed him he could also do it with a spoon.

Maxx looked at the clay with very wide eyes. I held it out to him and he backed away from it and looked like he was going to cry. He then went about his business of playing with the spoon and the bowl.

Neither boy was interested in coloring with the markers. They liked taking the caps off and on. Maxx did not like that I would not let him walk around with an open marker. He got some ink on the laptop keyboard and I was afraid what else he would accidently color.

It took Ty a while to decide he needed to go to the bathroom. He doesn't like to answer me when I ask him if he needs to go. Today, he decided to hand me my shoes because he knew I needed to put them on to go into the hallway. The translator wasn't with us so Maxx had to go with us into the bathroom. Maxx decided the doorstop for the bathroom door was interesting and spent the whole time looking at it. When I was holding Ty up to the sink so he could wash his hands, he decided to stick his head under the water. He thought that was very funny. Hopefully, he will enjoy water this much when it comes to bathtime.

When we got back to the room, the translator made a bird out of the clay and Maxx was interested in touching it. We gave him some of the clay and he took it without crying. Later, Ty had the bird and said "Rustam" as he pulled the head off of it. He and the translator then made the clay into a snake and the translator and I would pretend to be afraid of the snake when Ty threw it at us. Ty also held the snake by Maxx and said 'look out, it will bite you'. At one point, I made the snake into a circle and put it on my head like a crown. Both boys thought this was funny and Ty took the crown and put it on Maxx. Maxx didn't like that and started to cry. Ty looked a little guilty but within a minute, Maxx had the crown off and was playing with the doll.

After Maxx got tired of his pretend eating, he pretended to feed me from his plastic bowl. I got out the baby doll. Both boys started to pretend to feed the doll. Ty tried to put a spoon in her hand and said "hold it". Ty also got out his sippy cup and gave her a drink.

Overall we had a very good visit.

Have a good weekend,

Marcia