Bobby's World: Our Snowy Valentine

When you live in autism land, your days tend to be like Groundhog Day. Kids with autism generally like predictability, so we tend to do the same activities over and over. Our days honestly tend to look just like the one before. We are always beyond excited when we find a new activity that is acceptable to add to the rotation.

The sameness of this winter has been almost mind numbing, the rest of the region is finding out what it is like to live in autism land. It's the same story...2+ inches of snow predicted, which tends to be 4+ inches of snow. We haven't seen the grass that are our yards for weeks. The kids have been averaging going to school 2 days a week with those days having a great chance of being 2 hour delays. Here's the view from my kitchen this morning.....

Yesterday was Valentine's Day and the kids didn't have school. I kept reading on facebook how upset many kids were because they were going to miss their Valentine's parties. Yes, this is how bored we all are....kids are upset because they aren't going to school! Bobby, yeah, he could care less about a party, but he is stir crazy like the rest of us. How many days can you spend inside your house???!!!!

The good thing about yesterday....the temps were in the lower 30's, meaning the snow was clearing off of the roads that were treated. Bobby's caseworker called yesterday morning to see if she could come and do his home visit earlier in the day since he was off of school. Well, she couldn't make our hill and I had to go pick her up down the road from a gas station parking lot. When I got to the main road, it was clear and I didn't have any trouble on our hill, Daddy bought me the best snow tires he could find!! After I took her back to her car and came back home, we decided to get out of the house.

Grandma Carolyn has been staying with us for a few days because she has been stuck in her house through all of this snow by herself. She was bored so Bobby and I went and picked her up before the snowstorm before the one we had last night. Funny, I don't even remember when that was...the days are alllllll runnnnning together!!!!

Grandma, Bobby and I got out of the house yesterday!! Whoo Hoo!! We stopped at Barnes and Noble so that Grandma could run in a buy a new puzzle. As soon as I pulled into the parking space, Bobby took off his seat belt....HE WAS GOING IN!!!!!! I took Bobby while Grandma did her shopping, he had a mission in his head as soon as we walked through the doors. He walked at a very fast pace until he made it to his desired location...the music and movie section. He walked straight to the back right corner wall, stopped and said "ELMO." He couldn't reach them because they were on the top shelf, so I pulled a few different titles off of the shelf and he picked the one that he wanted, which funny enough, he doesn't already own. We went to the front of the store and found Grandma checking out. She was so excited that he picked out something that she wanted to buy it for him for a Valentine gift. He carried his new movie out to the car and held it in his hand.

I also needed to run into Sam's Club. When I pulled into the parking space there, he said "I'll be right back." This means, you run in and get what you need Mommy, Grandma and I will be right here waiting for you when you get back. He just does not want to go into that store. He knows what he likes!! I found a couple of Sam's Club specials to be our Valentine's dinner.

Cupcakes so that Bobby could blow out some holiday candles!! Fisherman's Seafood feast....

Zoi cracked us up....she waited patiently right beside Daddy just praying that she would get some scraps....

She looks so pitiful....like, I've been such a good girl Daddy...ppppllllleeeaaaassssseeeeee!!!

Yes, she got a couple of bites and I took the broth and put it on her dog food....she gobbled it all up!

More pictures of us playing in the snow (yes, I know if you follow Bobby's World on facebook that you have already seen these....sorry, I got nothing else going on!!!)........