Abbey is truly starting to anticipate parts of Christmas!!  She’s looking in her stocking often, wondering when the day will come.  We’re marking off dates on the calendar, heading towards that big circled day…wondering if she’s understanding that, or not??  She visited Santa, not too impressed still, but pressed Santa on her iPad and after a bit of prompting told him ‘thank you’ for coming over to see her.:)  Her favorite button?  CANDY CANE, of course!  Some of these buttons go to a set of Melissa & Doug wooden Christmas cookies.  He behavior specialist plays with this set with her and uses these buttons.

Pretty cool, we’ve got a Halloween folder also now and she knows how to use it…now, working on Christmas!  Making communicating fun and meaningful for her is so rewarding.  That moment when she opens up those new folders that you’ve made and spontaneously uses one or more of the buttons, such a wonderful moment!!

How have you made a Christmas folder for your kids??