Monday, November 19, 2012

"Don't draw... I think I get it."

This happened over the weekend when Aditya was playing with his Son Rise volunteer friend Arjun.

Aditya has had a challenge flowing with physical or even "on your feet" activities for almost two years.   He oftentimes decides to stop playing and starts asking deep philosophical "how would you feel" questions that the other person is usually not interested in answering during that moment of play. 

But on this last Sunday... it was Arjun who took a 1 second break from their pretend play game of a cross country road trip in order to explain a concept on the easel. 

"I think I get it", quickly said Aditya, suggesting to Arjun that they do not waste time drawing, and instead move on with their exciting journey to their next destination!!! Woo Hoo!

A minute later, he asked Arjun to put the car in the "drive" mode. When Arjun misunderstood and began to drive the car, he HURRIED to TAP Arjun ON HIS HANDS thereby asking Arjun to stop doing that, and then used words to say, "No, just put it in the drive mode".

Aditya was using his body to communicate!  Woo-Hoo!

A little later, when they reached an imaginary car shop, he decided to pull the foam roll that was lying around on the floor, and started rotating it and calling it a tire making machine!  Did I already say it... WOO HOO!!!


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