Racing to wave and say hi/bye

After our last consult with Dr. E., Thomas has been doing amazing.  In the past two weeks he has really made a lot of progress!  We are playing a game that involves racing to wave hi/bye.  We haven’t done the race with any buddies yet, but he is loving racing mommy and daddy to wave.  He is waving in all kinds of situations he never did.  He is very focused on beating us by waving first and therefore isn’t thinking too much about being anxious!  I don't think this would have worked a few weeks ago, but it was the perfect time to introduce it!  Every day before we go into school, I’ll say I bet I can wave to Ms. Nancy  (the director of his preschool) before you and he always says no I’m going to first.  He had only waved to the director, who greets us every day as we come in, one other time and he was always anxious about it, but since starting the game he does it every time!   

After about a week of waving confidently I started asking if he wanted to say hi to her after waving and he did.  Now he says hi almost every time.  Saying hi is one of the hardest things for children with SM to do, so we are so proud of him!  He will sometimes even answer a common question she asks if I give him a choice.  Rock Star!