That was the question this morning. More appropriately, it was "how long before we go home?"
He is starting to become aware that this is not a permanent place, and that he is here temporarily. I have not worked on it with him because he was not showing the ability to retain that information yet.
He woke up as I opened the curtains and removed the enclosure. He talked to me this morning, like the other days this week, and we turned on the TV to watch Jodi Dean and the Morning Show on channel 6. I moved his helicopter to put his breakfast tray over on his table. He started to eat his breakfast, then noticed the helicopter again. "Thanks for putting it together with me yesterday." (One more step forward)
We chilled after breakfast, then showered and got ready for school time. He did the showering with minimal help from me. Man, that water takes so long to get warm. He looked up at me with bright eyes while we were waiting for it to heat up and said, "Can we have some music?" ---The background story is the boys bring their iPods, put them on the cabinet and listen to them while they are in the shower. He remembered that!
The Speech Therapist came in and asked him about hand-made, stuffed soccer player he made. He told her yesterday that it looked like a character in a video game he likes on his iPhone. She tried to get him to recall, but he was trying to tell her he had seen them in the "claw game" at Wal-Mart, or something similar.
(Another step....see why I like mornings??)
It was shortly afterwards that he asked me about leaving.
Then he brushed his teeth and finished just in time to get to class today.
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