A few weeks ago, I taught him to say "excuse me" if he wanted to interrupt conversations and ask someone a question. But how do I teach him to loosen up his speech? I called a speech and language center last week to see if they could accept Jonathan for speech therapy. I think that I am going to need guidance from a speech therapist regarding this topic very soon. We stopped ST because the therapist could not see Jonathan anymore.
He otherwise is very sweet. He is very respectful now when he interrupts people. He always says "excuse me" or "please" and "thank you". But he is not at the point yet to smoothly ask people to help him out.
Today we went downtown to celebrate that we finished HBOT and just do something different. Our weekends have been restricted the past 2 months doing HBOT every weekend. Jonathan and Vanessa were excited to see something new. We decided to ride boats and walk around in a nearby park. The kids had a great time (as you will see in a couple of pictures below). At some point, we went to buy water. My dad ordered a bottle of water and Jonathan asked the lady "do you have apple juice?" and she said "well, yes sweety" and Jonathan responded "well, go get it". Her look changed in a second and I quickly corrected him in front of her and told her to say "can I please have one?" He said it and she went to get it. He thanked her on his own, but she was not happy. Later, during the day, Jonathan kept ordering Vanessa around with a very demanding tone of voice. And last night, he asked Abuita to do something, but the tone was again like he was ordering her or demanding in a rude way and she made a comment to me "I wonder who he got that "ordering around" from?".
He was very very hyper this evening. I also noticed that he was walking a lot with his tip toes today (without shoes). I'll assume it is high ammonia, high taurine. I will give him some extra yucca.
But we had a very nice, relaxing and fun day today.
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