Sunday, August 15, 2010

Rule #1

First rule of being a mommy to a child with ASD:
Always make sure you can hear your child at all times.


If I had remembered this very important rule, I probably wouldn't have turned up my music just a little louder while I was cleaning the kitchen. I may have heard him removing the bedding from his mattress, then removing the mattress itself, and turning his bed frame into a very nice train table. Nevermind, that there's an actual train table lying underneath where the mattress is now. It would've been much too easy to just use that one.

4 comments:

Dani G said...

I'm certain we can agree that Brian is brilliant for coming up with this. Amazing! Love this, but sorry you had to make the bed ALL over again :)

Lynn said...

holy cow! We should start list of everything that they've ever done when left alone for just that little bit too long. Whenever Audrey is being too quiet, I'm in trouble. We have poop smearing, coloring on walls, hair cutting...and I'm sure lots more that I'm blotting out of my memory.

Loved your comment about the cue balls...what is it with that? Audrey loves dropping those balls into the pool table pockets as well as the air hockey pucks into the goal.

Dani G said...

I'm certain we can agree that Brian is brilliant for coming up with this. Amazing! Love this, but sorry you had to make the bed ALL over again :)

Lynn said...

holy cow! We should start list of everything that they've ever done when left alone for just that little bit too long. Whenever Audrey is being too quiet, I'm in trouble. We have poop smearing, coloring on walls, hair cutting...and I'm sure lots more that I'm blotting out of my memory.

Loved your comment about the cue balls...what is it with that? Audrey loves dropping those balls into the pool table pockets as well as the air hockey pucks into the goal.