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This week was a great week at therapy as well as Andrew's 8th birthday!!  He has been more cooperative during his therapy sessions so this week we have moved to hour sessions instead of only 30 minute sessions.  Thursday he stayed engaged with her almost the entire session.  During some of the exercises he is trying them on his own rather than having to be manipulated into the poses; and at home he is even wearing his headphones to do the therapeutic listening.  Previously we just would play it over a stereo in the room with him which is not as affective.  Praying we have no more sickness or snow days so we can keep on schedule and get these two hours in each week.

We also celebrated Andrew turning 8 years old this Wednesday.  For the first time we decided to have a few neighbor friends over for a short party to celebrate with him.  He did surprisingly well!  He is very antisocial of course and usually when kids are here he runs to his room and hides the whole time.  He did this at the beginning when kids started arriving but we were able to lure him out with a cupcake and he stayed to play a game and open gifts without crying or getting upset!  There were even quite a few smiles!  While we don't expect him to start playing with the other kids, it's just nice to be able to be in the same house as other children without him whining or pinching people. 
Stay tuned to our updates, we hope to start having some exciting things happening with his progress!!