Fun Friday: A little of this and that...

It was a low-key Fun Friday, but it seems like the low-key Fridays always end up the most successful. It started with a surprise for Moses after school; we are taking him to Winter Jam next week to see Newsboys (he doesn't know it yet), so we had the new Newboys cd playing when he got home.

We then decorated a small Easter tree for our dining room.

We had breakfast for supper, and the feeding therapy went much better than it had at lunch. Instead of having to coax him to try things (the theory is you start small and work up, so you start by having him touch the food; then he has to pick it up; then he has to touch it to his face; etc.), he kept asking "what next?" We had biscuits and gravy, and we were able to work up to him dipping biscuit in gravy (not eating it), and touching a plain biscuit to his face. It's a good start! He's actually starting ahead of a lot of kids with similar issues, because he can tolerate having the food in front of him.

After supper, he and I made pumpkin bread together (again, prepping food is part of the process- and one of the few random things he will eat). He was a CHATTERBOX. And then he started asking me questions about supper: Did I make you proud? Did I make you proud, or really proud? (REALLY proud, Moses!). He stirred the bread mix, didn't mind if it got on his fingers, and even licked it off his hand!



While the bread was baking, we played a family game of hide-and-seek. I don't think any of us had laughed that hard in a LONG time. It felt good!

But the bread took forever for some reason tonight, I rushed getting it out of the loaf pan and it didn't come out well, and it was still hot when I served it to Moses. Not pleasant for a little guy with food sensory issues.... he said forlornly as he picked at his hot pumpkin bread, "This does not make me happy." Ah, that just cuts right to the heart! On the flip side, it is so good to hear him actually expressing himself about what he is eating, instead of just withdrawing inside himself.

Oh my goodness, I LOVE him.

Two random notes:

1) ZuZu clearly does NOT get the concept of hide-and-seek.

2) Hosanna clearly does NOT like being put in Moses' Easter bucket:


:)