autism is a journey: Cool Project

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Cool Project

I got Jackson this monkey kit while visiting Aunty Rainey and Iris in San Fransisco. He did a great job sewing, dressing and stuffing the monkey. I'm looking for another kit like it.

He's also enjoying the resistance bands I got to work out with. He says, "fly a kite" and lets one trail behind him.

This is from his teacher's notebook today,

We had a Silly Safari today-very cool program-the guy had a vulture, frog, spider, rat and alligator. The rat got a time out for not listening and the guy put him in his pocket and said, 'now you have to have a time out'. Jackson was laughing so hard about the rat getting a time out. He keeps laughing about it!

He was also laughing about it at home!!! It's so nice to be able to
share in somthing that happened at school!

1 comment:

tylerbritney said...: Jackson's monkey came out awesome!!! How cool is that? Bet he loved every minute of it and he probably thought he had his own BABW at his house! :)

I wanna see pics of Iris!!!; January 24, 2008 at 12:44 PM

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from "Metaphor-the puzzle piece symbol"

Ever had one of those "ah-ha" moments? I'm driving down the road today, pondering Jackson's recent successes--boyscout camp and football camp. It occurred to me that each experience gave me back a piece of Jackson. [I'm not doing a very good job explaining this...] When we learned about Jackson's diagnosis, so many dreams were snuffed out. We no longer thought about our son becoming an athlete, a scholar, or even a friend. We thought in much smaller terms:"how many words does he have?""did he learn a new sign""is he reaching out to us?""that's playing pretend, isn't it?"Our perspective as parents permanently changed. It's like we had this complete picture of our child and autism fractured it--into a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle.Each day little by little, we get pieces of the puzzle back. It'll never be complete, never the same as we expected, but there will be parts that will come together.Like when he participated in the school music program, enjoyed boyscout camp, rode the roller coaster and attended football camp. Bit by bit, we get pieces of what we expected back.Of course, the flip side of this is all the joys we gain from Jackson that we never expected in spite of the autism, but that's another post my friends....