Monday remains the day that during home based OT, Doninic makes dinner. There are a handful of easy recipes we're rotating around with the goal of teaching method, safety, and ease in the kitchen.
One of those recipes is egg cups. You take any combo of veggies/meats, put in a muffin cup, top with beaten egg and bake into a little hand sized frittatta. We love them around here. Tonight, Alyssa stood back and didn't say a word, letting Dominic just make them. He got the steps way out of order, but the end product is delicious, and i'm eating it as I type
Of 10 steps, Dominic needed minimal verbal curing on 5 of them. Mostly around the stove and safety.
What blew Alyssa's mind is that he didn't wander off at all the entire time. His focus was laser. Turns out all the chatting was distracting him. Here we thought we were giving direction. Ooops. What blew my mind is that after he got the egg cups in the oven he asked to cook asparagus and pasta.
Alyssa and I are officially impressed and suprised.
We're bouncing around ideas for helping increase his independence WHILE working on reading without giving him an easy way out. Thinking maybe TYPED, large instructions with a picture of each step a la pioneer woman. Would love any ideas / already made resources.....
One of those recipes is egg cups. You take any combo of veggies/meats, put in a muffin cup, top with beaten egg and bake into a little hand sized frittatta. We love them around here. Tonight, Alyssa stood back and didn't say a word, letting Dominic just make them. He got the steps way out of order, but the end product is delicious, and i'm eating it as I type
Of 10 steps, Dominic needed minimal verbal curing on 5 of them. Mostly around the stove and safety.
What blew Alyssa's mind is that he didn't wander off at all the entire time. His focus was laser. Turns out all the chatting was distracting him. Here we thought we were giving direction. Ooops. What blew my mind is that after he got the egg cups in the oven he asked to cook asparagus and pasta.
Alyssa and I are officially impressed and suprised.
We're bouncing around ideas for helping increase his independence WHILE working on reading without giving him an easy way out. Thinking maybe TYPED, large instructions with a picture of each step a la pioneer woman. Would love any ideas / already made resources.....
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