THE AERONAUTS movie event in Pasadena Rose Bowl

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After lunch Andre was drawing in the garage. He likes drawing with chalk over there. He drew a picture with sun, cloud and little rainbow. After we got in the car, Andre said to Mom: I just drew a rainbow. That was the first time he was talked/shared with us about what he did!

We then went to THE AERONAUTS movie event in Pasadena Rose Bowl. All the service people were dressed up and had British ascent as the movie was about a story happened in 1862 flight of some British aeronauts. A lot of fun, free food, drinks, games, photo booth, etc. I got a cup of ginger ale, and let Andre try it. I knew he doesn’t like all kinds of soda, and waited to see what going to happen. He looked at it really carefully, and smell it, as there are some small bubbles in it and it obvious looked specious to him. lol. He put the cup on his mouth but was really hesitate to taste it. After a while, he finally look at me and asked:”What’s this?”I told him it’s ginger flavored soda, and asked do you want to try it? He said no!. That’s really funny! He barely asks question, but we created a perfect opportunity and he had to ask, haha!

There was DJ booth with phonographs and playing some old time music. Andre suddenly said Mama dance! Wow. That' was a surprise to us.

It was a great day!

今天去了热气球电影节，指着ginger ale说了这是什么，刚刚画了彩虹，听着DJ说妈妈跳舞

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Saying I'm tired for the first time!

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Today when I was driving, I asked Andre what color/shape is watermelon, he was kind of spending a lot of energy of thinking and trying to putting his word out, as he didn’t sleep well, and was tired. After I pushing him and using candy as reinforcer for a few rounds, he said “annoying”. lol. I was keep pushing him, and then he said “I’m tired“. Hahaha. That was amazing.

今天让Andre想和说西瓜是什么颜色和形状的，他说“讨厌”，然后几轮之后他说“I'm tired” lol

Wow! Andre played Sand on a beach with bare feet! First time!

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We went to the Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park today, and I was planing let Andre step on sand for a little bit as he was always very sensitive with sand on his feet, and he hasn’t step on sand for months. So when we walk towards the beach I told him we were going to play the sand for a little bit. Andre replied “play the sand for a little bit“. After we got to the beach I put him down (he was already bare feet), he was totally fine!!! No whining, no complaints at all! He was not tolerating it. He was 100% good! I was so surprised! We used a little bucket to build some sandcastles, and he enjoyed it a lot. Also he kicked/played a beach ball. He was so happy!

He was good with sand not because of we put him on sand a lot and desensitized. It’s really because of his nerve system is much more mature and the sensory integration is much better! Nice!

第一次开开心心的玩沙子!感觉大脑整合了，感统自然就好了很多。扣了4个沙堡，还踢了球，不亦乐乎。

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I played some piano tonight, and Andre started to dance with the rhythm of Bach BW 974 Adagio! This was the first time!

Andre第一次随着爸爸的钢琴声跳舞,左右脚交换重心晃悠。爸爸弹的是巴赫974 adagio.

Andre used some new words asking for help on Grace's OT session

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The OT Grace pushed Andre a little bit with some difficult fine motor tasks, and surprisingly Andre used some words he never used before asking for help, like “Mom help me to do this“ and “Mom hurry up!“ lol. Very funny. That’s a perfect example that Language is based on social needs.

Grace阿姨fine motor很难,一想帮帮什么都说出来了。比如 妈妈帮我弄，快点儿。。。

追遥控小车上山下山,超级能跑。

自己搬体重秤，假装量身高和体重!!!


First time Andre liked to kick / play a ball!

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We went to the Peter F. Schabarum Regional Park today and brought a beach ball. I’m so surprised he liked to kick a ball! He was never interested in this before. Actually he kicked back and forth with me for 5,6 minutes!

There was a ice cream truck, so we prompted him to buy an ice cream. He started to like ice cream recently. He did not like it before because of the texture and sensory issue. It seem his sensory integration is getting much better now!

今天第一次在公园踢了很久的beach ball！

We felt Andre got some big development in the past few days

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After he finished the OT session today, Andre was bringing the sword toy which was used in the OT session to the front desk lady and talked to her:”看看这是什么东西”. This was in mandarin Chinese, which means “Look! What thing is this?“ OMG we were shocked! This was the first time he shared the interest to someone!

We got a new OT yesterday

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Finally we got Dorothy with centra pediatric therapy! She is beyond great. We feel really lucky to get her as Andre's OT.

It was just the evaluation, and we were super impressed by how good the Andre’s fine motor skill is. After the 1 hour evaluation, he had not reached the ceiling yet! He kept going on and on and on… We have to do an extended evaluation next time. Dorothy let him cut a circle and he did it successfully! This was his first time. Wow! We felt it pays back after all the effort we put it.

Talking about ABA from a parent's perspective

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We had ABA service for about 6 months, and then stopped it. In this video I'm talking about the pro and con about ABA, and our experience. Hopefully it's helpful.