12.2.12

Elf on the Shelf Night #3 (sorry for the redundancy, FB friends).  

Last week Wyatt was invited to his first (non-family) birthday party, for a boy that he went to daycare with in the summer.  He was thrilled, and I was apprehensive to say the least.  I spoke to the boy's mom, she said it was just their family and one other boy invited.  I figured Wyatt could handle that size of group, but I was still fairly uncertain about the whole idea.  I don't know this family at all (other than knowing who they are from daycare), and Wyatt's never been to a party on his own before.  But, I thought, it's a small party, and a short time, it should be alright.  I told Wyatt if he got upset at all, he could ask the boy's mom to call us and we would come get him.  Josh dropped him off, but stayed with Wyatt for a while because it turned out that there were actually quite a few people there.  Wyatt told Josh he could leave, but we got a call about an hour later saying Wyatt was ready to go home.  Turns out that the kids had whistles in the treat bags and had been playing with them.  That set Wyatt off, not surprisingly.  I feel badly that he didn't have fun.  

We've started his occupational therapy appointments, and those have been going alright.  The last 2 weeks have just been a series of exercises to see what he is capable of, and how he reacts to certain things.  This week we'll start working on sensory integration therapy.  As part of the process, Wyatt's preschool teacher had to fill out a questionnaire about how he acts in school, and some of it was hard to read.  He almost always needs encouragement to play with the other kids, and often keeps to himself.  I know there is one boy that he plays with there, so it's good that he's got one little buddy.  Just kind of sad that he's too overwhelmed with everything else that's going on that he doesn't want to interact with anyone else.  Sometimes, the more information about SPD I get, the more depressing it is.