Indirect prompts; Stair-climbing

Today, after Dylan woke from his nap, when he's still very sleepy, Mel brought him to the toilet & shortly afterwards, announced that "Dylan did 3 things without me telling him." She had removed his pull-up diaper, and just said "hnh" while holding it and Dylan took it to dispose in the bin in the kitchen. She then pointed to his T shirt & shorts on the floor and did the same and he picked them up and dropped them in the pail. Wow! Nice indirect prompts and it works!

Yesterday, Dylan's sleep was topsy turvy - after returning from AAS, instead of napping as he usually does, he instead got excited and jumped around- might have got to do with his grandma (po-po) being with him. But anyway since he missed his nap, I rushed home as he would likely fall asleep early. Did some regulatory activities like I give him block, he stack into tower, and then reverse. I note he's more accepting of the receiver role, but when he's the sender, he tends to want to take over my role to stack as well.

After dinner, Jurgen & I took him for a walk + climb stairs. The climbing downstairs was very tough as he hardly looks out for signals from us (we took turns) but instead was very floppy, just extending his foot whichever way he fancies and leaning way forward! At times, it's rather dangerous! Anyway, at times I loosened my grip when he's standing upright and not hold him too much, then in fact he could walk down and follow my lead better. But overall, it was a very tedious session - 15 minutes for 1 flight at times. Thankfully, he does not just throw a big tantrum but allowed us to continue with him.

In view of his tiredness, we gave him an easier time on the walk and a nice break at the playground before returning home.

Sunday woes

Today Dylan seemed to have gotten off the wrong side of bed - cried/tantrummed quite a bit since morning for being refused fried chicken which was prepared for lunch. Oh boy, it's such a tiring day - happens whenever Dylan has difficulty falling asleep for nap, climbing all over me. He also bumped his forehead as he was tired but struggled. So I rented a carcoop car thinking he will surely fall asleep on the way to Botanic Gardens, but he was quite excited throughout the journey (also meddling with the aircon & other controls like windscreen wiper) and only fell asleep in his stroller when we finally reached Palm Valley for the Jazz concert. Nice vocals and music but he slept through it, while Jurgen and I relaxed and munched on satays & cheese nachos.

After concert was over, I woke him & got him to walk a little. Indeed he was more alert when walking on the elevated stretch of seat surrounding the concert stage. Then he was much happier, and cooperated even when it got dark and held on to my hand, later Dad's, nicely walking. He was particularly excited when we were at the waterfalls - glad that he was able to walk through, and followed my lead, without becoming fixated.

Overall, not so easy to engage today, but also not so bad.