Winter was out there wintering again. Kind of over it. And so is Owen. This morning he went right to rock and roll mode and I was more in ostrich mode of wanting to stick my head in the sand. He started his planning for a busy year over the next eleven months. It is hard to believe it is February already. I feel like we have lost some of our year in January.
He was singing Christmas songs right out of the gate and talking about “night Santa.” It feels like it is going to be a very busy day. Yesterday was a big music day for us and I was trying to follow through with that today too. He doesn’t always like my singing and he doesn’t always want to sing but yesterday we met in the middle and it was good. Today it was more about his singing and less about mine.
We were back to listing where restaurants live. He wanted to know where “cracker burial” lived so now he is saying we are going to meet everyone at the “Cross Lanes cracker burial.” It truly amazes me how much he has stored in his brain. I do believe he also knows everything everyone else has ordered when we go. He certainly knows what they wore.
He was very content listening to his BeatBo that needed a battery but he won’t let me put one in until it completely stops working. He kept telling me it was at 1% and it needed to be at 2%. Then he went all the way up to fully charged. It is amazing how he processes it. He didn’t touch his tablet for over an hour. We need more BeatBos. He has five of them. One speaks another language. I wish I could find more in other languages. He loves them.
He started talking about his schedule without looking at a calendar. He told me to pull it up. Before I could even look he told me he is going to the dentist on “Wednesday look at the calendar June 3rd grandma’s house May 30th church May 31st.” He has a calendar brain. Truly he amazes me.
He told me he wanted to “wear khaki pants you know tan kinda white.” I asked him if he wanted some because I would get him a pair and he said “No grey sweatpants blue sweatpants pants.” I told him he had those and he said, “big blue jeans.” He then told me to give all his clothes that he didn’t want to our friend who is younger than him.
Throughout the last few days, he took all of his clothes out of his dresser and put some of them in the bins. He then puts the clean clothes into the dirty clothes hamper that he doesn’t want and then the dirty clothes he wants to wear in with the clean in the bins. To say I get confused is an understatement. I truly have to get organized in a way that helps him with the clothes he wants and get rid of the rest.
He went through all of the things his doctor told him when he was sick about needing to drink water. The only problem is that he was in the bath at the time and he started to drink it. I said, “She did not mean bath water she meant clean water.” He said, “it clean.”
Two-hour delay for school tomorrow!! I am not telling him until I see that the bus is truly on its way. This way he will sleep without getting anxious and tomorrow will be a blessing for him when they get here. They won’t pick him up until close to ten so I won’t tell him until after I know they are coming. It would be a long time in the morning for him if I told him too early and I want to make sure the school board doesn’t change it in the morning.
I’m thankful he has a better day. We had a couple of moments but after working through a lot of it he was able to move forward. I hope that tomorrow goes according to plan. He will be so happy to be back with his people. This week’s weather may have some surprises but if he can get in a few days of routine it will help. In a few of our bumpy moments, he told me “I’m sorry mommy I love you” and it makes me happy that he knows we apologize to each other. He is growing and so am I. We learn, we love, we grow. Remember you are amazing. Smiles to all and donut daze!
He was singing Christmas songs right out of the gate and talking about “night Santa.” It feels like it is going to be a very busy day. Yesterday was a big music day for us and I was trying to follow through with that today too. He doesn’t always like my singing and he doesn’t always want to sing but yesterday we met in the middle and it was good. Today it was more about his singing and less about mine.
We were back to listing where restaurants live. He wanted to know where “cracker burial” lived so now he is saying we are going to meet everyone at the “Cross Lanes cracker burial.” It truly amazes me how much he has stored in his brain. I do believe he also knows everything everyone else has ordered when we go. He certainly knows what they wore.
He was very content listening to his BeatBo that needed a battery but he won’t let me put one in until it completely stops working. He kept telling me it was at 1% and it needed to be at 2%. Then he went all the way up to fully charged. It is amazing how he processes it. He didn’t touch his tablet for over an hour. We need more BeatBos. He has five of them. One speaks another language. I wish I could find more in other languages. He loves them.
He started talking about his schedule without looking at a calendar. He told me to pull it up. Before I could even look he told me he is going to the dentist on “Wednesday look at the calendar June 3rd grandma’s house May 30th church May 31st.” He has a calendar brain. Truly he amazes me.
He told me he wanted to “wear khaki pants you know tan kinda white.” I asked him if he wanted some because I would get him a pair and he said “No grey sweatpants blue sweatpants pants.” I told him he had those and he said, “big blue jeans.” He then told me to give all his clothes that he didn’t want to our friend who is younger than him.
Throughout the last few days, he took all of his clothes out of his dresser and put some of them in the bins. He then puts the clean clothes into the dirty clothes hamper that he doesn’t want and then the dirty clothes he wants to wear in with the clean in the bins. To say I get confused is an understatement. I truly have to get organized in a way that helps him with the clothes he wants and get rid of the rest.
He went through all of the things his doctor told him when he was sick about needing to drink water. The only problem is that he was in the bath at the time and he started to drink it. I said, “She did not mean bath water she meant clean water.” He said, “it clean.”
Two-hour delay for school tomorrow!! I am not telling him until I see that the bus is truly on its way. This way he will sleep without getting anxious and tomorrow will be a blessing for him when they get here. They won’t pick him up until close to ten so I won’t tell him until after I know they are coming. It would be a long time in the morning for him if I told him too early and I want to make sure the school board doesn’t change it in the morning.
I’m thankful he has a better day. We had a couple of moments but after working through a lot of it he was able to move forward. I hope that tomorrow goes according to plan. He will be so happy to be back with his people. This week’s weather may have some surprises but if he can get in a few days of routine it will help. In a few of our bumpy moments, he told me “I’m sorry mommy I love you” and it makes me happy that he knows we apologize to each other. He is growing and so am I. We learn, we love, we grow. Remember you are amazing. Smiles to all and donut daze!
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