Yesterday

It was my work from home day yesterday. Spent a couple of hours in the morning answering urgent calls from the office and getting some numbers out for boss who had meetings with the "Gods". I wonder why lah, these urgent requests always come on my day off. I shouldn't complain though, dapat this arrangement pun is really a big blessing!

Had a demo done by the Rainbow vacuum person and got suckered into buying a unit. N doesn't know this though. I thought I'll just buy it, so that since the "damage" is done there's nothing he can do about it kan? Just the way he thinks when he's buying his cars! haha! I thought it's a good buy though especially since Nasar's asthma became really bad this year and was hospitalised two weeks back because of it. N and I are allergic to dust, so are Dad and Deana...So it's justified right? I'll think of it as an investment. The problem now is, what do I say to N when he sees it? "Surprise!!" ?? Haha, gasak la nanti..

Playroom Note 26/2/2009:

I have decided to post my observations with Nasri in here whenever I can, mana tahu, dapat feedback yang bernas ke..

We spent 3 hours in the playroom today continuously. All food and drinks were put in the playroom for minimal disruption to our play. He wanted his bubbles most of the time and knows that he needs to ask when he wants them. Nasri can say "I - waaah - bubbeh" with perhaps 5 second gaps in between each word. TO say the whole sentence he needs some prompting. He normally just shouts BUBBEH when he wants it. So, now we're progressing to short sentences. A few weeks/months ago we struggled with the "want", only getting 'wwww" from him. So "waaaah" is good progress!

Eye contact - I'd consider it normal now. But that's with me. I need to observe how he is with strangers.

He likes the sleep game and prefers to sleep on his "banana boat" while I rock it and he pretends to sleep. I take this time to do his massages and sing songs. Used the Barney and Elmo puppets to sing to him, asking him to choose between Barney and Elmo. Hands down - it's always Elmo! He says 'Emmeh" for Elmo. Penat mama dia nyanyi, sebab dia tak tidur2! Need to learn more Elmo songs!

Note to self to check with therapists - how do i get him to be more spontaneous with his speech?

Note to self - get more volunteers! Looks like Fudz is leaving for uni at the end of the year and Nasri will lose his best-est play pal! If only I could chain her up in the room! (Sorry Fudz, that's just Aunty Dena being mean!)

He didn't want any table work yesterday..so it was three hours of bubbles, singing and silly games, if you can call them games, more roughing it out, tumbling over every where and laughing over nothing. He loved it - he really needed the attention. He has behavioural issues though now which surfaced after Nasya, so I really need to buck up and give him the attention he needs. How lah?

Note from therapists - concentration level has greatly improved. More control on his colouring techniques and very responsive during speech therapy. Practise, practice, practice! Says two-syllabled words better now..

Slowly but surely. Insyaallah.

Oh - just remembered that we'll be at the M Nasir concert this Sunday. I got suckered (can u see the trend here?) into going by N...I suppose M Nasir is better than the Ahmad Nawab concert though. I just couldn't relate to some of the singers like Ahmad Jais (white platform shoes ok!?) dan sebagainya. What to do, kawin orang tua macam ni lah.. generation gap!