Falling Behind

Life is busy as usual and I have fallen behind on posting. Junior is doing well aside from the usual asthma troubles.
A couple months ago he entered his first art contest and I was notified this week that he made it to the finals(out of over 400 entries). The final judging is in mid March. I am so proud of him and he is super excited about the contest.
Here is his bird painting he entered. With his yes/no eye gaze and some help from his ipad we discovered that this is a painting of Junior's favorite bird at our zoo. A brightly colored parrot who he likes to watch fly and talk.
Here are a few pictures from Valentines week. Junior is walking us through making some crafts. I have started mixing up the steps on his ipad to see how he does. Instead of putting the steps in order I mix them up so he has to really think about what comes next. Didn't fool Junior though he had no problem still walking us right through what he needed next for his craft.

Telling me what he is making (stained glass hearts)
Sprinkle on the paper
I want to do it myself

Making heart butterflies(I didn't get many ipad pics of this one but he was using it the whole time)
Hearts, Hearts, this was Junior's favorite Valentines craft this year. He thought it was sooo very funny to make butterflies completely out of hearts.
A little of our fun from the past week. I didn't catch it on camera but I had asked Junior what he wanted to do. He chose play on the Wii and then instead of just picking one game he chose 3.
This boy loves his wii and it is a wonderful way to get all his exercises in without him thinking of it as work. Nothing like a little Wii Therapy.
Asthma has been an issue the last several days with our crazy weather so we did school wherever Junior was comfortable. His reading skills are increasing by leaps and bounds now that we have a good system to tell what he is actually reading and understanding. We have introduced some letter blends and words with four letters. Recently I even began introducing some words with four letters and long vowel sounds. To think that if we had listened to Junior's very first teacher and not bothered trying to teach the basics("he will NEVER learn stuff like that so don't bother trying") he would not be having this whole new world opened for him.
Of course listening to a story is a favorite
This is from last night. Junior wanted to draw with his markers even though he was falling asleep and his asthma was really giving him trouble. (he can't move his hands but stiffens his arms and then pulls them in to get the marker to move)

You can always check out his personal blog to see whats going on with Junior on a day to day basis.
On our adaptions blog we are doing a series of posts on sensory rooms/spaces so feel free to click on over there to check it out.