Friend visit

Today a first happened. A neighbor boy that we know from the bus stop came over to play with Jordan. At first he asked if a hat he found on the playground belonged to my little prince. But when the little prince asked him to come inside and watch Garfield with him he said sure! After just a few minutes he said he had to go home and ask for permission to come over. He was sure his parents would approve so assured us he'd be back in a few minutes. A few minutes later, he came back and played with little Prince Charming for an hour. Then he told us he had to be home, but he'd come back if he could. A few minutes later, he was knocking on the door again! He stayed for a couple more hours, I made extra food just in case he was there so he had a corn dog and french fries with us, politely thanked me and put his plate in the sink. After a while they got a bit rowdy, but not too rough. The neighbor boy accidentally locked himself in the bedroom while they were playing the three little pigs. With a shotgun. I've never heard the story that way, but it's all good! :-)

With all the problems we've had with socialization and sharing and communicating, this was a huge step.

After bath time tonight, I gave the little prince a breathing treatment (he has an upper respiratory infection that's irritating his asthma) and he fell immediately asleep! The only problem with his behavior today was new as well. "I told you..." to whatever he says. He's ordering us around! He's always been wonderful about asking politely for something but now he's trying to order us around. Hopefully he doesn't try that anymore.

Busy week and a good boy

We've had a wonderful weekend. The little prince has been very well behaved, doing what he's asked when he's asked, even going to bed withttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhouhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gift a fuss. We bought him an Easter present of little plastic bowling pins and bowling balls to say "thank you for being so good" and he really seems to like them. What he likes best is making us set up the pins for him even though he's perfectly capable of doing it himself. :-)

I have a rather busy week ahead. A possible boudoir photography shoot tomorrow, running to Kalamazoo to get photo paper, receiving a photography order from a shoot last week, Relay for Life Team captain meeting, receiving final payment and pickup of photos taken this weekend. Still working on the cancer quilt project, and have a couple orders for autism awareness bags that I need to start. I'm knitting a baby blanket for a friend, but since I'm new at knitting it's coming along very slowly. Hopefully it will be done before she has the baby!

crocheting for a cause

I've been crocheting a cancer "quilt" for a while now. the idea is to get all my crocheter/knitter friends to participate with making 6 inch squares and I'll sew them all together and see how big we can make it. I have enough squares between what I've done and what's been turned in to me to make a throw blanket. I'm impressed with the response I've received so far. I have others pledging to send squares by my deadline of May 31. The quilt will be auctioned off at the local Relay for Life event. I'm hoping it brings in enough money to make all the time and energy worthwhile. I don't know though, because I live in a small community, but it's a worthy cause...it could go either way.

I recently took a break from the cancer quilt project to create an Autism Awareness tote bag. It amazed me that there are no free patterns out there for autism awareness. I decided rather than buy a pattern (which in itself was hard enough to find) I'd create my own. This is the result.

more progress

I love seeing how much progress m little prince makes. He's started using not only complete sentences, but putting more than one together and making conversation. I'm in pretty close contact with his special ed teacher. He started writing at school and while he doesn't like to do it, maybe because it requires sitting still, he wrote 2 whole sentences at school a couple weeks ago and I nearly cried with pride.