…and enjoy the rooms because Sal loves exploring them too.  Last night he found the key to the minibar and gave it to me. I put it on the nightstand and that was that.  Had to cut him off.

This morning, after breakfast, we’re playing around in the room.  He wanted the remote for some TV, but moms is trying to keep him off less than 1 hour a day.  So I gave him back the minibar key and asked him to put it back.

He didn’t head straight back to the minibar, but did get back to the keyhole with the key in around 45 seconds. He didn’t have the coordination to put the key back into the hole but we were pleased he knew where it was supposed to go.

He’s been getting better and better at these longer term memory games. We’ve been playing them more too - hunting and searching for things helps him use his recall abilities. And if he doesn’t know where something is, or if we’ve moved it, he’s starting to establish a “search pattern” skill - to search for things with better and better coverage.  We figure that helps out with his patience and helps him develop the skill of searching for things efficiently.

Once he learns how to open the minibar though, I imagine we’ll have a different set of chalenges to face.

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