Jonathan had a very full day at the camp. When my dad picked him up, he fell asleep on the way home and kept sleeping for 1.5 hours more. They told me in the morning that they were going to do a lot of physical activities today.
I woke him up and after about 10 minutes we went out bike riding. He was an a good mood. We then arrived at home and played outside with bubbles. They really enjoyed it. They shared the gummy bears and M&Ms that Vanessa brought from daycare (they had a birthday party). Tia Nelci arrived so we could go out to dinner. We went to Jonathan's favorite place: Moby Dick's House of Kabob. We all ate and came back home. The kids play for a little while longer.
Vanessa has turned into Jonathan's therapist. They play all the time and imitate each other. They have been doing that for a while now. But before they used to just chase each other around the house or at the parks, etc. And now that they use verbal language to communicate, their games are more complex. I video taped them a bit tonight, but it was dark in the room and my video camera does not have a light, so the following video is a bit dark. But notice how Jonathan wants to contantly play with Vanessa, wants to please her, how he reads her non-verbal body language when playing rough (and yes, they scream all the time), how he tries to teach her when she is stuck. Jonathan could not tolerate these types of games 4 months ago. As long as Vanessa didn't touch him, they could play (chasing around was their favorite). If Vanessa touched him, he would screem and cry. And whenever he was excited, he would be too rough and hurt her. He can now tolerate being touched and pushed and is more gentle while still being playfull. And he can now tell when Vanessa is done with a game and move onto some other activity. Before he would cry because he didn't want to change activities. Vanessa has matured in the last 4 to 5 months. It seems as they are developing in parallel as all the biomed treatments (especially chelation and methylation support) and HBOT are doing their magic. Enjoy it.
When it came time for bed, I again applied the suppository and Jonathan started asking me about tomorrow. We spoke for about 5 minutes. How extremely cool. I told him where we were going tomorrow and then he would say "but mommy you said I could play with Playstation" Then he said "tomorrow, when the sun comes up I go to your bed and wake you up. We go downstairs". And I asked him what we were going to do and he said " we are going to draw" and I asked him what we were going to draw, and he said: "objects. I want to draw objects, and stars" and I told him that we should draw animals and he started mentioning some animals he likes. Then he said he wanted to go to the zoo. Final, he said "ok mommy, good night. I love you. Give me kiss on my cheek" and I told him that I loved him too and gave him a kids. Then he said "I love you a veeeeeeeery long much" and I smiled back and I said "I love you very much too sweetie, I love you thiiiiiiis much" with my arms open wide and he liked that and opened his arms too. That was a very special moment because he had never said that. I didn't know that he even understood the meaning of such abstract thinking.
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