Let me start off with how much of a "win" it was for Pman yesterday. Tim took Parker and Quinn to the McDonald's playplace by our house with Tim's mom, Mary, for lunch. Parker has never been comfortable in the tubes in the playplace. Kids are screaming, laughing, pounding on the equipment...these things have always been a little bit of an overload for him. He always enjoys himself in there while running around on the ground and spinning the little steering wheel in the entrance and giggling. Well, yesterday Tim brought Parker into the tube equipment to see if he would go on the lower level slide. He was apprehensive and slightly scared but with Tim there coaxing him and telling him its ok in uncharted territory, he followed Tim through the tubes and went down the slide with Tim! Tim jumped around with him once they reached the bottom and Parker busted out in laughter. He couldn't contain his excitement! He did it!!!! Then to make matters even BETTER, as soon as they were done jumping for joy together, Parker tore off climbing back to get to the slide again!! ALL BY HIMSELF!!! Tim said he could hear him laughing within the tubes and giggling the whole way!!! He went down that slide about twenty times!!! Then after one time going down the slide, Parker went up and he never came down the slide. He was in the tubes for about fifteen minutes and so Tim decided to venture up there worried that Parker got lost and was scared. Tim squeezed through those tubes to find Parker. When he did, he was lost in there up high in the tubes but he was ok. He didn't seem too scared. Tim said that when Parker saw him, he grabbed his hand right away but didn't seem too scared that he was lost in the tubes. They were so close to the top slide that Tim took him down that slide and he loved that too!! Right away Tim texted me at work about it and I started tearing up at my desk. I was so unbelievably proud along with Tim and Grandma Mary. Then when Parker was on the ground running back and forth, an adult was on the bottom equpiment watching their kids next to Parker. Then suddenly a child screamed and it caught Parker off guard so he immediately went to the adult there and sat in her lap. He always seeks adults for stability which is good but also concerns me in regards to him learning about strangers. He's a very trusting boy so will be a learning opportunity in the future. But its ok...because yesterday was a great day for overcoming an obstacle to him....the playplace tubes.
When I got home from work, I rushed up to him and said how proud I was of him for going down the big slides all by himself and how he was such a big man doing it all by himself! To see his face, it was so beautiful. His face lit up with delight and I could just see how he was so proud of himself. It was beaming from him. It was a great moment.
As for the rest of the evening...that's a different story. From about 4:30 until he fell asleep...it was all meltdown mode. That's just it though...you never really know how your days go when it comes to little ones in general but especially ones on the spectrum. Things can be hunky-dorey one moment and then the complete opposite the next. But this isn't necessarily a post about that portion of the day....it's a post about how much Parker challenged himself and how much he blew us away with what he accomplished. He does this practically everyday and that is why I am so proud to call myself his Mama and being a part of every moment. Even when I am at wits end when he screams for hours on end and even throws up from being so worked up....those things honestly leave my mind so quickly. I'm not saying that naively either. When there is a day like yesterday where every emotion comes up...I always hold onto the ones that are the positive ones. Ones that make me beam just as much as he does everyday. Another reason why he is my hero. My Parker.
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