These photos aren't in order, they're all from Thanksgiving and the week before.
Tristan and Colin are such a study in contrasts!
This is how they dressed for Thanksgiving. Colin in sporty summer wear (he's NEVER cold!) and Tristan dressed up for the holiday. These two are very close in age and obviously have had the same upbringing yet they are SO different!
Back before Thanksgiving we had a feast and program at homeschool group. The photo below makes me laugh as I didn't realize the look on Hayley's face until I downloaded the pics. This must have been THE moment she realized there was no ketchup to put on her meal. She's in a big ketchup phase lately.
Hayley has decided that she'll look for a small bottle of ketchup to carry in her bag from now on so she doesn't have this tricky problem again!
The Thanksgiving program was after the feast. A Native American woman gave a wonderful, interactive presentation about the native peoples feast days and what their lives were like back around the time the colonists arrived here.
The children did some drumming and chanting to Indian music.
Tristan with the red warrior make up on his cheek.
Tristan and Colin had made bows and arrows to bring along as part of their costumes.
The Thanksgiving program was at the church "with a great pond" so we had to check out the pond for awhile after the event!
A couple days before thanksgiving we started our Christmas shopping. We do this early because we need to mail some gifts and to give some at Thanksgiving. After shopping the kids were STARVING (or so they claimed) so we headed to pizza hut, I'd heard about their all natural pizzas. Well we ended up buying the special instead because Tristan really, really, wanted the chocolate dunking sticks that came with it. A little junk food won't hurt.
Once home we had to wrap some gifts. Below Colin wraps a gift he chose for Grammy.
I told him he definitely wraps like a boy!
So we had a nice Thanksgiving event with the homeschool group. A fun shopping trip that same week and then a trip to Grammy's house for Thanksgiving itself. It all went pretty well except that Trevor did not want to go to Grammy's but I said he had to. It was not fun convincing him he had to go and getting him ready. I needed to do his laundry so he'd have something nice to wear (his new "good sweats") and then he wore an old pair of sweats anyway and wouldn't put on the new ones (but at least they were clean!). He doesn't like the long car ride and doesn't like that holidays are different. He did ok but ate no dinner at all and put his hands over his head at times when the holiday got noisy. He finally settled down and ate some left over dinner once we were home and the younger kids were in bed. The joys and trials of a special child were quite in evidence that day. I'm glad we stay HOME for Christmas!!!
6 comments:
It certainly looks like a very fun-filled day(s)! ;-)
I'm sorry that TG was so difficult for you, Jodi. I can see it from T's point of view, but I always sympathise with you too, because it's so incredibly stressful trying to encourage kids with ASD into something they don;t want to do.
Grace has told us she wants to be surprised by her Christmas presents this year, which has ent Jamie and I into a blind panic.
'Surprise me, but you better not disappoint me! seems to be the mission we've been given. I'm expecting lots of photos on Christmas morning of G looking like H does there in the meal photo. {g}
Are you having trouble getting T out of the house these days? Or was it just because it was TG and a long car journey?
{{{Jodi}}} I know TG was hard with Trevor but you handled it beautifully. What a fun day the homeschool group looked to have....except for the ketchup. We have taken to carrying various food items on these outings ourselves. LOL
Dorothy, yes he can be difficult to get out of the house. He dislikes our car. We had a minivan most of his life and DH downsized 2 years ago to save on petrol. Trevor finds the car too confining. He does better if it's somewhere he wants to go or sees value in. The worst problem with holidays is that my Moms house is 2 hours each way and he finds that length of time in the car very hard.
Oh I hope you are able to surprise yet not dissapoint Grace,that's a hard one. We were able to purchase the thing Trevor is hoping for this year so I don't think we will go wrong but you just never know.
Jodi, love the pic and comments about how different Colin and Tristan are. Isn't that the truth, such a visible reminder that God has HIS plan for every single one of us.
The hs event looked like great fun. I'm with Hayley, great idea to carry her own supply of stash ketchup!
Traveling, visiting at the holidays is stressful enough for grownups (at least imo). I can only imagine how magnified it must be through ASD. We're looking forward to Christmas at home alone too. :)
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