Tue 9/2/2010

Last I night stayed up late on youtube looking at vids on autism..till 1:30PM. In the night James got into our bed.
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Michelle got James up this morning and I went and had a 'talk' with him while he was eating his peanut butter on toast she had made. He was pretty zoned out, but wasn't looking that interested in the toast and after a little while started grizzling so I got him down and put his toast on the low table. He grazed a little and then went walkabout.
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Picked James up from Vanessa's. He didn't even look at me for a minute or two, although I got down right next to him where he was sitting at a chair playing with felts not doing much. I took a felt and started drawing but he started pushing things around and hissing, he obviously wasn't happy at that. Made chit chat with Vanessa then left. I had walked so we started walking down the road, he was a little confused and wanted to walk back into Vanessa's, but I got down low and mentioned a few times that we were going home so he seemed OK to go along with me, but after a few meters seemed to want carrying so I did. As I walked down the street I talked to him about what was going past bikes (cyclists), motorbikes, cars and pointed. But he didn't look at them or pay any attention to me, he just looked around at the trees or the sky not really focusing. Its hard to know what is going on there. I talked to Michelle and she thinks it is if he is unprepared for something or it is unexpected he doesn't respond for quite a while. It's possible he was just tired and overwrought or over stimulated from having Holly and Luke

When we got home he spotted the spa and went up and was playing with the cover, obviously keen to get in so I put him in it. He was still quite remote. After a few minutes Mum came home with Hannah and Hannah got in too, Grandma came over to say hi to James and she got big smiles and lots of looks. James started to perk up and wanted to hold my hands.
Grandma left, then Michelle came home with tea. While eating tea James was looking at the sun through the cane blinds and constantly closing his eyes tight then opening them as he ate.
He perked up after tea and I played with him a little bit on the floor and got big cuddles where he lay still on his back on top of me (OK sort of cuddles!) and I cuddled him. We then played the usual 'stomping on dad' game and he squealed at ear splitting volume. A bit later I took him down the bedroom and played in the bed, hiding under the sheets and tickling him, he enjoyed that.
Then chucked both kids in the spa again (well they got in, James with my help), then off to bed. Hannah read James a book and he never got out of bed, I went to read him a book and realized he was just toast, and so shut the door, and never heard more, kaput to the world at 7:45PM. He was just dog tired and has been the last few days so he should get a good rest. Looking forward to seeing him in the morning and engaging with him, there's definitely days like today where he wakes up tired and it makes it hard probably for the whole day, other days where he wakes up smiling for all the world.
Found http://taylor-autism-aspergers-syndrome.com/ and got a real boost from that.