Happening Thursday

I was thankful that Owen slept all night. This whole put himself to bed thing is holding strong. I’m celebrating this victory. It actually feels quite huge and like a move toward independence. I got up to go to the bathroom around four and I was hoping that I didn’t wake him. Thankfully, he stayed asleep, and then I went back to bed. When I woke for the day, it didn’t take him long to come and stand at the light switch. He went to the bathroom first, came to hug me, and then realized the coffee was still brewing so he grabbed his tablet and came back to the light switch. As soon as my coffee was done, he turn the light off and follow me back to my room. When you quickly got ready for school and we went out to the bus stop. He wanted phrases translated again into many languages and I told him for every animal that he walked as he could then have the phrases. I was trying to explain to him that he had to bend in the middle to be able to do the monkey walk. It’s hard to explain something to him without him being moved into position he wants to stand straight up when he needed to be hunched over. When I explain to him that he needed to bend over, instead of bending over, he would pick up his knee and then put his hand on his knee like he was slapping it. If you say something to him, like touch your toes, instead of bending over to touch his toes, he will pick up his foot and then touch his toe with his hand. It’s a matter of learning and re-learning certain skills, or putting those connections to the words of how to explain something like bending in half after he did the monkey he wanted to do a bunny walk, and then he realize that a bunny and a kangaroo hop about the same so he did a kangaroo hop after he completed the bunny hop. We did several phrases and then it wasn’t long before the bus turned the corner and his smile got huge. I picked him up from school and we were off to therapy. I had told him that I would let him go into therapy by himself today but once we got there, I could tell he was on sensory overload as soon as we went inside there were a lot of people waiting for their therapy sessions as well, and it was just too much for him. He wanted to sit down, and there wasn’t a place for him to sit where he normally sits, once we got into the therapy room, he did amazing though he was focused even though he is good at distracting himself I always like seeing how they handle him because when he’s at home, he tries to distract me or throws different things into the scenario when I think we should be doing something else so that he can make the most of his time. With each therapist, they went through different exercises and worked on certain skills with him. He did well today with all of the different exercises that they were having him do, and he completed them without too much hesitation, depending on what the skill was. He seemed very tired at therapy and even though he was tired, he still was able to complete most of the activities. When we left his therapy, he didn’t want to go anywhere but by the windows, so we drove by the windows and then we came home he wanted a snack and a snack and a snack and another snack. He was hungry and so not only was he tired but he was hungry and then he requested shrimp for dinner. He ate all of his dinner. He was hungry. The night was filled with him laughing and singing and he was watching pirates and Curious George and talking about Mickey Mouse and there were just a lot of connections and a lot of information that he was sharing with me tonight it was all about Curious George again he went put himself right to bed and he just wanted to be in the bed and so it was a great another great night for him to be able to put himself to Sleep, I’m thankful for his growth and I’m thankful for the connections that he is making. That’s the one thing that I have to remember and not come unraveled is to look at the progress he has made and know that he has made incredible strides and has surpassed so many expectations. It’s been a wonderful journey to watch, and when you look upon yourself, know that you can accomplish anything if you set your mind to it just keep moving forward and find what’s important to you. Smiles to all and donut daze!