I woke early, waiting to hear Owen’s footsteps at any moment. The quietness of the night is never truly quiet. I wait for sounds that will wake him. He slept until almost six o’clock. His words, actions, and reactions all seemed to flow and he was relatively calm. Relatively if I was completely engaged with him unless he didn’t want me to be. “Sit right here,” he said one minute, and “go to the white bed” seconds later. Some days are harder than others to distract him from his demands and commands that he wants to put on me. Instant gratification is also something else we are walking through. His words and connections were flowing today but he also repeated so many of them over and over again. It’s amazing how he told me his robot BeatBo is like Goofy’s Goofbot from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. He brought me his tablet showing me Goofbot and explaining all the similarities to BeatBo. He then had me help him play one of his games and he pointed out all the blue pants’ characters. I’m always trying to get him to move to watch how his body functions. I wanted him to move his shoulders. He attempted to move them and he said, “jiggle wiggle that doesn’t work” and took his hands up to his shoulders. I wanted him to sing songs when we were going to church. I like to distract him from yelling about the stoplights and he said, “I can’t play that game you sing.” His foreign language skills are ramping back up. He is listening to all kinds of phrases again and he started talking and said, “that’s spanol now for Arabic.” I truly wonder how many languages he speaks. When we came home from church he ate his lunch and immediately started playing his keyboard. He goes through phases where he will play more music but I always encourage him to play different instruments. Music does wonders for our souls. He wanted to take a bubble bath so he could go to bed and see his teacher but he technically didn’t want to go to bed. When he got in the bath he told me “bubble bath with tomato juice please pour head be red Owen.” All I can think is he has watched a video with a skunk and this is what he wants to do now. He asks for food and drinks when his plate or cup is not empty but he doesn’t ever want them empty so as soon as he finished dinner he asked for more. I’m on to him I tell him so he says, “this is the last time no full cups today” mixing my words altogether. Then he waits for me to tell him that he can have more. He starts filling in my words before I even start to say them. “You can have more if you need it,” he continued. I want him to know he can always have more if he wants it but it doesn’t need to sit there if it is to just fill the glass. This is a hard concept to make a connection with. I told him it was bedtime and he said, after he “finish your Toy Blast” so I let him finish his game. After getting up three times sleep happened with a smile on his face because he knows he is going to school tomorrow and seeing his teacher. I’m so thankful he will be back into his routine. His laughter in his joyful moments is more than I could have ever dreamed of and I’m thankful. Follow your heart, sing the melodies of your soul, and know that you can make a difference in this world. Smiles to all and donut daze!
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