An awful day at work, then paying bills at home and I can’t get the checkbook to balance. Sam comes home from speech and I find that he had an even worse day. His class watched "Jurassic Park" in science and poor Sam isn’t of that disposition. It shows on his face, all of these hours later. He relaxes on the couch for a bit and I let him get lost in his game for a while and then it’s time for him to get into pj’s and fix his bed. Off he goes upstairs.
After a few minutes, I go up to check on him and he’s fixing his bed and the worry is still etched on his face. With echoes of my Dad, I take the monkey puppet and ask him questions about his day and talk to him a bit and try to reassure him and try to give him comfort.
When Sam comes back downstairs, the monkey is at his side. When he heads back up, the monkey goes with him. He climbs into bed at bedtime and he has his arm tightly around the monkey. I cover them both up and kiss Sam goodnight.
In his papers from speech, he’s still working on identifying emotions. One of the things under “Things That Make You Feel Distress” is “seeing dinosaurs eating people”. I'm feeling a little distressed myself.
It was nice to see that one of the things that makes him feel "joyful" was going on walks with me.
Same here.
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