I recently read a post on Hartley's Life with 3 Boys titled Sensory Detective. It was such an awesome post and I'm in complete and total agreement with it. This, along with recent developments in Jesse's expressive communication got me thinking about just how much of a detective I've had to become lately. In addition to the sensory issues, Jesse also likely has some degree of verbal dyspraxia. Since his vocabularly is growing by 1-3 words a day, and he's just now starting to put 3-word phrases together ("more juice please"), I'm constantly having to decipher what he's trying to tell me. And if I'm unable to figure it out, we're at risk of a meltdown. I'm getting better at it though.
For example, a couple days ago Jesse came running up to me in the kitchen holding a tiny piece of paper in his hand. He showed me and said, "babage!" I was stumped! He kept repeating it over and over, "Babage! Babage!" "What is it Jesse?" I asked. "Babage!" And then he started knocking on the cabinet door under the sink. Where we keep our GARBAGE can. I opened the childproofed cabinet door and sure enough, Jesse puts the tiny piece of paper in the garbage. "BABAGE!" He was so proud of himself! And I was so glad that I got it relatively quickly.
A few others that I've figured out recently:
"ma-mass" is Mickey Mouse
"doot" is both poop and milk
"dee" is Diego
"keys" is both keys and cheese
There are a couple others that come to mind, but I'm saving those for another post.
I could have written this post. As far as the detective part...trying to decipher before the meltdown of frustration on his part. B-man is trying to tell me/us stuff more and more but I do have a hard time "getting it" some days.
ReplyDeleteYayy for Jesse though. It is awesome that he is at the 3 word phrases too. How exciting!