1. On a lazy and rainy weekend morning, I watched as I showed our children some Bollywood song videos. For those of you who have not watched them before, picture young men and women usually singing in scenic locations, usually doing things no real person will do! (Just a reminder to us that not just kids with autism think of seemingly bizarre and abstract things like "rides" ;-)
We watched a handful of those songs, ranging from the beautifully pictured and composed Khuda Jaane, to the tale of three friends driving from Mumbai to Goa in a car (Dil Chahta Hai) and then... the song about a young man and a young woman imagining themselves to be on screen singing and dancing to Bollywood songs that they are watching on screen(Woh Ladki Hai Kahan)!
Then last night, I don't remember what led us to do this, but both the twins and I threw our hands in the air singing "Khuda Jaane", acted like the Aamir Khan in Dil Chahta Hai-- gobbling up a whole fish (and we are vegetarians! talk about flexibility;-), and dancing with bird like steps as in "Woh Ladki Hai Kahan" for over 10 minutes!
(Worth repeating this... Aditya "acted" like the guy in the video, eating the whole fish, then showing the "Exquisite" gesture with his fingers! Priceless!!)
We are planning to repeat the show tonight!
Aditya was doing these kind of silly things with us when he was 3. Then he stopped. Three cheers for him as he has come back in action!
2. Aditya not only plays soccer with me every morning now (2 sessions of 10 minutes with a half time in between) he is getting better at it with every game. Today he scored his first REAL goal, meaning he actually beat me and sent the ball in the goal post in a way I could not stop! Even considering that his dad was never a great soccer player.... this is a huge feat for Aditya! In addition he seems to enjoy and giggle (rather than fret) when I deflect the ball away from his grasp!
3. Aditya is willing and excited to play Soccer (my choice) as the FIRST activity in a session. After we are done with that, he asks for HIS choice... guess what it was today.... that's right.... Monopoly! He is ASKing for an interactive board game like Monopoly... which is huge for us. Of course he loves doing the Math (like paying $200 in order to pay $160 and then asking for $40 back), as well as the predictability of what colors go on which properties. Even then the number of outcomes that there can be (chance, community chest, paying rent, building houses, trading properties/houses, and even bargaining for more money when the other player is in dire need of buying the third property of a given color) makes this a pretty good game for him to play and exercise his flexibility.
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