It's Important to Be Flexible

No, not like Elastigirl...

When you have a kid on the Autism spectrum, you have to be flexible about your expectations when you go somewhere.

Tonight we went to the Spooky Halloween Craft Night at our apartment complex. I was hoping my son might enjoy making some crafts. He usually likes to paint and cut and glue. However, tonight he wanted nothing more than to run around, or "wun awow" as he says. The clincher was that someone had brought two push toys, and my son just loves push toys. Then he found a remote control that he used as a phone. So, that is what we did.
I did do some painting with my daughter who was "all done" very quickly, and as she pulled her hand away from the project, she wound up hitting herself in the forehead with her paintbrush. We were painting the body of a spider, so she had a nice, big, black splotch over her left eye. It was very funny.

We didn't finish painting her spider because she was also excited about the push toys, especially since she's starting to walk all by herself. So, that is what we did. We didn't complete any crafts, but we all had a good time, and that's what counts.