Shaggy and his Scooby

October 28, 2022

No idea why, but Bradley had no school today. We were very happy to have the day off and enjoy a quiet morning. We thought we would have a quiet morning but things are rarely quiet with Bradley. He wasn’t thrilled about having to eat breakfast before he could get his movie - but he did it, albeit loudly in protest. Once he finally got his movie, he was happy enough until he decided he wanted to have his speech iPad for picture taking as well. Of course, his mother is a pain in the booty and he couldn’t have that until after his therapy session today. Bradley of course completely disagreed with me, we had a discussion about it and he gave up and decided to cut his losses and enjoy the movie he did have. 

At therapy, they were practicing trick or treating today. So when I told Bradley we were going to therapy and he needed a costume, he went running down the hall and grabbed his baseball pants from yesterday. Only, I didn’t have a chance to wash his pants…and I had another idea for his costume today. So even though Bradley had a completely different idea for his costume than I did - he relented and finally put on a green shirt and brown pants, and glanced at but would not carry the Scooby toy that completed his costume - Shaggy. His OT thought it was genius. I’m pretty proud of that one too. 😉😊

After we left Therapy, we met up with Eric and then we hit the pumpkin patch. We thought about the little area Home Depot has out front, but Eric thought it was too tiny. Instead, we went to another patch in one of the fields. We almost waited til tomorrow to go to another local farm, but Bradley hasn’t been to one in years so I was worried he would be extremely overwhelmed. Turns out I was probably right. At the Pumpkin patch we went to, Bradley started down the dirt aisle and just kept walking. We finally figured out that he was headed towards an old rusty tractor and we think he wanted to climb up on it. So we directed him away from that and he started wandering aimlessly through the pumpkins. After a few attempts to step on a few different pumpkins, we managed to get him to choose a small pumpkin and a large pumpkin and then headed for home. 

On the ride home, Bradley sat in his seat with his little pumpkin beside him all the way. When we got home, he carried it into the house and it sat on the table next to his other pumpkin. At dinner, both sat in front of him. He likes his pumpkins. 

That Bradley is happy with his new pumpkin makes it a successful trip to the Pumpkin Patch. Was he really overwhelmed? Yeah, but I think he did enjoy his adventure overall, and he definitely enjoyed gaining another pumpkin - so one happy boy and another pumpkin or two in our house later, makes for a pretty good day. 

31For21 Blog Challenge for Down Syndrome Awareness and Acceptance. Gathering pumpkins.