I mentioned before that with Christmas we have learned that Deeds opening presents with everyone Christmas morning leads to an entire day of meltdowns, stimming, and over-stimulation.  This year we are doing presents slowly and one at a time.

Today a box came for Deeds from a dear friend in Ohio.  He was very excited when I told him he could open the wrapped gift inside and proclaimed “It’s my birthday, I’m 4!”  I had to chuckle since I can tell he is more excited for his birthday in a few weeks than Christmas.  I explained that he is still 3 and it’s a Christmas present but at that point he just wanted to open it.  I took a video of it so that our friends could see how excited he was. I was trying to help Gwen and film at the same time so it’s a bit shaky but thanks to YouTube’s editing features I tried to stabilize it a bit.

He sat an played it a dozen times before nap time and it was perfect for him.  I love our new plan for Christmas of doing it slowly.  Sometimes you just have to find the right balance to make things work out.

This picture cracks me up. He was saying "cheese" while making that face.

THANK YOU!

Time to play!