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Humming a tune
So much has happened since my last post, I couldn't begin to summarize it. So, I won't :)
Last night, I heard Grant hum for the first time. A real tune, in his humming voice. While we were watching Toy Story before bed, he started humming to the early part of the Toy Story music. It took me a few minutes to realize that he was actually humming along to the notes because it caught me so completely by surprise. As he went along, I start catching the tune, and he ended perfectly on the very last note. Wow!
Today in the car, Staci heard him humming something else. Music has, for so long, been either a terror, a confusion, or an annoyance to him. To hear him reach out and embrace it on his own is simply unbelievable.
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Music is a big mystery here too. JP won't sing in the presence of others in class but he'll come home and recite the song to himself. If I sing, he tells me no singing. Yet he is also drawn to music.
I am glad to hear you are all doing well and enjoying the music.
Exactly! Exactly! No even listening to music for the longest time...then one day I heard her singing music from "Phantom of the Opera." Mind-blower! Here's a post I wrote about it: http://awalkabout.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/great-expectations-not-the-dickens-kind/
Best wishes for your musical journeys!
My 9 year old spectrum son has a slowly growing appreciation for music. It started when I bought him a keyboard. He still doesn't like music with dinner though. It makes him very grumpy to have to try and chew to tunes.
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What a breakthrough! Good for you! [all]
Mine still turn off the radio or anything else that's annoying them.
Right now I"m being serenaded to the tune of 'Rule Britannia' from one and the 'Raiders of the Lost Arc' by another!
Best wishes
That is fabulous! I can't help but think about how special and amazing our kids are. To see them change and grow and start to feel comfortable with and enjoy things they didn't before...... it is simply magical to experience, don't you think?
PS - I'm back blogging but at a new site, if you woudn't mind updating your link to my blog. http://onemarchday.wordpress.com
Stacy from One March Day
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