A long time ago Dennis would answer like this.
Do you want cereal or waffles Dennis?
Waffles!
Okay. Do you want waffles or cereal?
Cereal!
Really. So do you want cereal or waffles?
Waffles!
Can you see the pattern?
Then today-- he blew me away.
We came back from an appointment later than planned so I raced to feed Alex and Dennis lunch before rushing Alex off to pre-school. Dennis was not done as I pulled him away from his cereal-- but I promised he could eat it when we came back in 15 minutes. I wiped his alligator tears and that was that.
Fast forward 15 minutes as I am unlocking the front door back from dropping Alex off.
So Dennis, do you want to take a nap or watch Spongebob-aloo with Mama?
Eat lunch! And Dennis raced back to his chair and shouted Me eat cereal!
10 inspiring thoughts:
Cute!
So obviously he isn't non verbal--Duh. I'm such an airhead sometimes.
Way too many things going through my mind at once I guess ;)
I love Dennis, he sure is growing up though. Oh, if they could just stay little.....
Christine, one thing you can do to teach Dennis to make actual choices and not repeat the last choice to him is give him a desired/nondesired choice. Do you want cereal or pickled eggs? If he says the eggs give them to him anyway. He will quickly learn to listen and comprehend both choices. Give him the desired choice first, it will work!
LOL! Little man was still hungry..Good speech.
Aw I love conversations like that with little kids...it's so fun to use them to your advantage haha :)
You must be so proud to see the result of your hard work and lots and lots of love paying off. Go Dennis, and Go You!
So sweet and so fun! He is a funny little guy, turning into a big boy! Thanks for sharing! And I love your kitten, so cute!
I remember when Iryna started distinguishing between what I was saying and didn't just repeat that last choice...such progress!
very cool!
Very good for expressing his needs!
So fun to follow his progress over the couple years! I was just thinking that when I first saw your blog, it was quite some time before you traveled to adopt Dennis. I waited quite impatiently for the adoption time to come ... and all that has happened since then - oh, it's been a fun journey! Thanks so much for sharing!
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