What on Earth?!

Today was about the craziest day that we have had in quite a while. It started with a bit of a different twist, Samuel's personal attendant came a little earlier and was only scheduled to stay for a few hours. Samuel had asked for Banana Bread yesterday, so I thought he would enjoy helping me make some this morning. He likes cracking eggs, so I let him do that (silly boy, he said "ouch, I'm going to die!" when he cracked them!), he mashed the bananas, and got to measure out flour (which he played with more than he measured!).

Anyways, with the different start to our day perhaps Samuel took this to mean that he would not be doing school work today. I didn't put any school work on his schedule until his personal attendant was due to leave, and Samuel had a fit when he saw the "work time" icon on his schedule. I had scheduled "Lite Brite," a toy he has recently taken an interest in before "work time" which I had thought he would enjoy. No such luck, he protested that too and was caught up in some major scripting during this activity. I cut it short and we gave Samuel lots of run around and playing time down in the playroom. Samuel requested a "break" before I started his school work and he spent much of it crying and talking as though he was depressed. Sometimes when Samuel is in a mood like this he will borrow a term from one of his favorite TV shows, "Wow, Wow, Wubbzy," and he will say "I have the bluey blues!" He didn't say that today, but he was sure acting it!

The second session of school work was preceded with another break, equally as teary for Samuel. I got out his Wilbarger Protocol brush, something I haven't used in a long time, and tried brushing him. He was a bit sensitive to it, ticklish, but he seemed to like it and that calmed him down a bit.

I saved Samuel's favorite subjects, Religion and Reading (from his reader) for last late this afternoon. It took longer to get through the work, but we eventually did it. Good news, I have been able to use the Religion textbook with Samuel recently, and haven't had to re-type the lessons on "Writing With Symbols". That is such a big help! It takes lots of time to re-type lessons. Samuel was in a much better mood tonight.

I have told Samuel we are going to take a vacation from his videos and DVDs in a few weeks. He is scripting them way too much and he is just way to absorbed with them. When this happens he gets very ornery and doesn't want to be "bothered" with anything. Before we start the "vacation", I'll start putting some of them away. He has collected over 20 of them and tries to look at them throughout the day.

Oh, in between dealing with Samuel today I had the "pleasure" of an equally ornery 5 year old boy, son number three. He is very particular about the clothing he will wear these days. He protests everything except for shorts and short sleeve shirts, in the middle of the winter?! He was also very unhappy today when I sat him down for some school work, at a time he wanted to go play with another of Samuel's personal attendants (who he thinks are there to play with HIM, not Samuel!).

My oldest son was a little tired today. We let him stay up late last night to watch "Life After People" on The History Channel. I watched a portion of it as well. It was fascinating, but kind of creepy, watching how all signs of human civilization would decay and slowly disappear if men were no longer on the Earth. I got caught up in wondering, "Well, how would all people disappear?" They did not get into that on the show, people were just already gone.

I'm glad today is over, this was a rough one!