Granny, C and I hit the road early Sunday morning and stopped in Youngstown to enjoy a huge metropark with a fun children's garden and playground. We spent the night at the Pittsburgh airport and had an awesome room, we could watch the planes land from our window.
We arrived in D.C. the next afternoon. There are wacky D.C. roads that change direction based on the time of day. They made it tricky for us, but we got there. We stopped by camp before checking into our hotel. I was not a fan of driving in D.C. Don't do it!
Camp started Tuesday morning. We had a few hurdles immediately. C did not connect well with her clinician. The clinicians were trained and using DTTC (Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing). In short, if the child can not produce a sound you provide a physical facial cue to help. "Open" was a one of our target words. So, her clinician had container after container full of toys. For "O" she would lightly squeeze the chin, "P" your hand pops off the lips, "N" is one finger on the side of the nose. C did not enjoy having this woman up in her face at all.
Camp was a 15 minute walk from our wonderful hotel, the Melrose. Everyone at the hotel went above and beyond to make our stay great. It was a 10 minute walk to Georgetown, where we found great food most nights. There were motorcades, airplanes, helicopters, buses, trains, and construction every day on our walks.
Let's talk food. We had phenomenal stone fire pizza, pasta, Mediterranean, burgers, sandwiches, salads... handmade salted caramel ice cream...mango and brie waffles...Seriously, it was glorious.
Corinne barely touched her talker at camp, but did a good job using it to request things out and about. She did not want to participate in graduation and we wound up leaving without saying goodbye to all the other wonderful families because she was just done.
Glidden House is a mansion from 1910 on the campus of Case Western. It was beautiful. We crashed and then awoke to a huge complimentary breakfast. We choose this hotel because it is next door to the Cleveland Botanical Gardens. We checked out the frogs, the trains, the gardens, and the rose competition before it was time to get back in the car.
When I asked C to get back in the car she said "NO". When I asked if she wanted to go see daddy she opened her door, jumped in her seat and said "go".
The final leg of the drive was uneventful and we were home before dinner. We missed Daddy / Kevin like crazy and it was so nice to be home!
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