I held up the peanut butter and Vegemite this morning in front of James to try and get him to make a selection along with verbal prompting. He just looked at them a bit scratching and grinning. I just waited and after a minute he said 'peanut budder' - he didn't point or say no to anything but it was good enough for me, so I said 'good boy James' a few times and made him his toast.
At little school he sat down in the mat room (his favourite, always goes in there). The others kids were playing with baloons and fly swatters to hit them, James just sat down in front of the CD player and looked at the display and listened to the music smiling. When some songs came on he liked he jiggled up and down a bit and wobbled his head. When one came on that he didn't like - a slow nursery rhyme - he screwed up his face and said 'No, no no' and sat there frowning.
I cuddled him and kissed and told him we were going, we put him on Nia's knee and he frowned a bit and wriggled a lot but not too badly, and Hannah and I both waved and said goodbye and blew kisses. We got lots of eye contact and a few little smiles.
Then we waved through the window and got solid looks instead of looking away and quite a lot of smiles at our goofy antics, and Nia made both his arms wave, he seemed pretty happy!
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