February 7-12 I babysat the most adorable/funny/polite children. Ever.
Portions of their heads:
Our dear little eight year old Rachel has this list hung on her wall...
What I want for my presents:
a jinormise soup case
high heels
gum
fabric
propel or crystal light
100 dollars
cook book
clay that drys
a staking to decorate
stand up art kit
mints
red banana chair
tape (this one got crossed off the list after our trip to the dollar store... yes, that was her chosen "prize")
hersey candy bar
colored paper
any baking stuff
clear coat nail polish
I was laughing so hard when I saw this, she started crying because she was embarrassed. (I then spent 20 minutes with her, in the closet she'd locked herself in, telling her I was only laughing because I think she's cute.) But really, is that not THEE funniest list of things a child could want? Ah she's great. Get me some kids, exactly like this.
**** I've decided its not my place to disclose his name or age.... Confidenciality maybe? Yeah...ooops.
Preface: 98% of the world knows that I work with a little boy named **** who has autism, because he is the bulk of most of my conversations...with everyone. I might be a little obsessed. So for the 2% of you that didn't know this, now you do.
So **** is super into quoting things. He always has been. But over the last few months he is not only into quoting movies/commercials/his mother, but he has started to act them out. Good, healthy, imaginative play.
Example. You know on Toy Story when Buzz falls out the window and they string some monkeys out to help him? Yeah well, **** and I played out that whole scene with his complete set of Toy Story toys last week. You want another example? Ok. How To Train Your Dragon is a big deal right now... Usually he is the Night Fury and i'm Hiccup... sometimes I'm Astrid because he realizes that i'm a girl.
Anyway my favorite thing he has ever acted out is this:
Its really just the chocolate layer cake part at the end that he quotes...But its a pretty fun video anyway. Just good wholesome fun. So he grabs 10 of anything and goes to the top of the stairs and says "10 chocolate layer cakes" and falls down...and I laugh and I laugh and I laugh. Probably shouldnt encourage it. I should have put that all in past tense... because he won't do it anymore. Ok now here is the new Sesame Street scene:
So this is the first clip I could find... and it doesn't encompass the whole episode, but you get the point. Telly is trying to find the golden tringle of destiny. Just to fill you in... he tries to find a pentagon, and an octagon which happen to be golden and of destiny also. So any 3 objects *** finds become the golden triangle, pentagon, and octagon of destiny. Then we hide them and find them. Pretty repetative. So today I attempted to make them out of play dough to switch things up... it is a lot harder to make an octagon out of play dough then you might think.
Anyway I. Love. That. Boy. A **** year old boy with autism is my best friend.
I've conformed.
I got a macbook, toms, and now a blog. I'm resistant to these things, and then I try them and they're not that bad and I realize I was being stubborn. Thats the typical process. If this isn't one of "these things" it shall be deleted when that is discovered. Until then, I'm just going with the blogging trend. See what all the hype is about.
In other news, today I paid a $217 ticket to the Bountiful City Police Department and I just spend 3 hours at McDonalds, which is more time then i've spend there in my whole life combined. It turns out those little $1 salads aren't that bad. Heck maybe i'll conform to being a McDonalds regular too.
Blogging is a good time.
