First Time Eating Ice Cream Out of a Sugar Cone

Jonathan continues to show improvement with this receptive and expressive language, but even more with his reasoning. When we met after school, Jonathan was very happy to see me and wanted to hold my hand. We went car shopping and he was curious to know what we were doing and why. I talked to him a lot, explained that I needed a new car to make my travel to work easier. I asked him if he was going to help me and he said yes. He is now reaching that point that NT toddlers reach where they feel excited to help.

He seemed less interested today in playing with electronic toys until very late in the evening. We spent almost 3 hours at the car place and he didn't ask us for our phones, or tried to play with anything electronic. At first he wanted to be near me. But after a bit, he was perfectly happy going with his grandpa to the playroom. No anxiety and he was calmed and kept his tone down all evening.

While we waited for the paperwork, we took the kids to the nearby shopping center to have ice cream. Jonathan has always been very picky. He never liked sugar cones, only ice cream in cups with a spoon. But Vanessa wanted a sugar cone and he imitated her. So I bought each one and to my surprise, he imitated Vanessa on how to eat the ice cream out of the sugar cone.

When we got home, Jonathan and Vanessa were inseparable. They played with a couple of toys. He directed Vanessa on what to do, they shared (and Vanessa was very excited that Jonathan shared with her) and then sat in front of his laptop to listened to a story.

Something strange happened as we were taking the kids to bed. We were all walking up the stairs and Daddy was playing with Kaiser (our dog) and he started to run up the stairs, Jonathan turned, heard Kaiser coming up and started running upstairs and jumped on our bed. From there, he tried for about 5 minutes to articulate that he was scared of Kaiser. I listened, and tried to create sentences for him until he finally said that he was scared of Kaiser. I asked him if he wanted me to put him inside the cage, and he got excited and said yes. He has never showed to be scared of the dog. So I don't understand what went through his head. I will keep monitoring that.

On Monday, I posted a positive feedback in Dr. Yasko's parent's forum. I mentioned about Jonathan's Happy Mother's Day comment, and that although he is still not playing with other kids or interested in regular toys, he is a happy and engaging kid that tells me that he loves me spontaneously. She responded today and her words are my next step biomedically:

"Dear Alex,

... As you know for Jonathan we really do need to push the B12 due to the MTRR ++ and if we find we need more info as time goes on we can consider the add on SNPs for ACAT, AHCY and BHMT so that we can reach that point where he is also socializing at the level you would like to see.

With love and hope and a hug,

Dr.Amy"

This summer is going to be intense on the biomedical side of things. Dr. Yasko's support gives me a big push.