There are teeny tiny steps Brendon takes forward that eventually do add up, but it takes looking back quite far sometimes for me to see that there is progress. Also, Brendon has always had periods of regression that don't seem to correlate with anything. When you mix the super slow progress and the regression it gets quite discouraging.
Sometimes, however, he just does something new. Period. No regression. Those are the times that keep me going. Tonight, he did something new. We celebrated my oldest daughter's nineteenth birthday with cupcakes and just for kicks I had her to blow out a candle on one as we sang the birthday song. Now you have to understand that Brendon has never shown the slightest interest in any of his birthday cakes (he doesn't even eat cake) and he has never blown out a candle. Tonight I caught him with the old discarded candle trying to stick it in the top of one of the leftover cupcakes. I told him to stop and so he motioned that he wanted it in the cake and then he pretended to blow on it. I of course spent the next hour lighting it over and over again so he could blow it out. Then, he showed us that he wanted us to clap our hands and cheer for him every time he did it.
Next birthday he can blow out the candles on his cake! Woo hoo! Better late than never!
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