His desire to stack and line up pretty much all things is
not something that he has ever outgrown.
In fact, it is more important to him now than ever. Bradley wants to have his iPad, but he wants
to have his blocks at the same time. He isn’t
really a builder, but he loves his Lego blocks.
Sitting with his iPad in his lap, he likes to cover the whole screen
with the same size Lego blocks – fours or eights, depending on the day will
depend on which ones he covers his screen.
When he gets bored with his screen covered, he’ll decide to stack the
blocks on their sides and build them up like a wall…sadly, he doesn’t choose to
connect the Lego’s, so the slightest move and they call come tumbling
down. He takes this pretty well. If he is still happy with those blocks, they
just get stacked right back. If he has
determined that he is bored with them, they do get stacked again but only so he
can toss them unceremoniously all over the floor in front of him. When
this happens, he is then required to get down and pick them all up and put them
in their bucket. Sometimes this makes
him all the more interested in them again…but sometimes he sets them aside and
goes for another stackable.
Lately, he has discovered Dominoes. They are the perfect three row high cover to
his screen. He doesn’t look at the dots,
he turns them over and leaves the blanks face up. So much for teaching him numbers while he
plays. Hat we ran into this week was the
simple fact that he didn’t have the perfect number of tiles to cover his screen
and we were struggling to understand what it was that had him so agitated. Maybe we would have blown it off in a regular
week, but this week he was feeling so bad for so long, we really had to figure
out what he needed to make him happy again.
Once we figured it out, Dad put a picture of a Domino Tile picture on
his speech Pad. Now he tells us when we
have moved from one type a block to another.
Hey, it’s the little things.
Bradley likes to line up his pins for bowling too. We have a lovely space outside now and so I
took him outside, lined up his bowling pins and started to play bowling with
him. Sadly, his method of play is
actually pretty exhausting for Mom. He
will throw the plastic bowling ball but won’t go get it. The last time we were outside, we set up his
pins and he threw the ball, then refused to go get it. So, I walked over; like the well-trained mom
I am, and I rolled it back towards him, making sure I missed the pins. The first few times he would get it if it was
close to him. But a few times more and
he realized how hot it was outside and how much he didn’t care for that. So, when I turned back around from getting
the ball, he was sitting on the ground, over in the shade. When I gave him the ball, he stayed on his
bum and tossed the ball at the pins and then remained seated while it went away
from both of us. I tried a few more
times and only acquired a sunburn for my trouble, so he and I chose to return inside
soon after.
Tonight, Bradley was eating some mac n’ cheese at the
table. Eric brought home some Pediasure with
Fiber six packs because when Bradley gets sick, he needs the extra Fiber to
protect his intestines. With two six
packs sitting in front of him, Bradley keeps moving them around each other, lining
them up and then moving them to line them up another way. Finally, he gets tired of holding his iPad,
but doesn’t want it to lay flat, so he pulls a six pack of the Pediasure to
him, sets it up perfectly in front of him then puts his movie in the middle divider
of the six. The three bottles in the
back hold then iPad up while the three bottles in the front keep it from
falling forward. Then he gives me the
biggest grin and a slight eyebrow twitch up and I can’t help but laugh at him
and applaud his ingenuity at the same time.
Crazy little guy. Thank God he is
feeling better and I am seeing those mischievous little grins returning to his
face.
The last of the hives are slowly fading away, we’re almost
free of them. The temperature is
hovering at 99 still so we still have that to contend with, but my hope is that
when the last of the spots fade, then his temp will drop back down to his more
typical 97s. When that happens then I am
hoping that the rest of his problem systems will also line up and get all back
to their usual working order. He’s much more
vocal tonight and he has been stacking and lining up all evening, so for me
those all point to a slow return back to his usual. We cannot wait!
Any way you stack it, or Bradley does…all lined up is another
day in the 31 For 21 Blog Challenge. We
don’t know why he stacks and lines things up, but we accept that part of him
and keep finding other things that he can enjoy lining up and stacking.
Have a great night all, thank you for stopping by!
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