Colour Games......
Sunday, 02 March 2008 14:21
Like today after sport. After telling him he could have a snake, but only one, he asked the lady at the shop for blue and yellow. Then we had a rolling debate where I said "only one!" and he said "blue and yellow!"
It was only after I stopped arguing with him that I could pause and reflect. "You mean you want a green snake?" "Yes!" he beamed. I put myself in his shoes and thought about how Sam sees the world. And soooo.... blue + yellow = green. He was only asking for one snake.
There are other times his use of numbers will throw us. Driving home, Sam would say "I don't want to go home! I don't want to go home!" When we asked him where he would like to go, he would answer "316!" and when we asked him where that was he just kept repeating his explanation that we should be driving to 316....
So after weeks I've finally figured it. Sam loves reading the Gregory's Street directory and it is currently one of his favourite books. I was looking over his shoulder and he said "Mummy drive to 316!" Map 316 is where the airport is!
Sam loves the airport because there are flight numbers and gate numbers everywhere and he loves having so many numbers to read. And he knows going to the airport means he gets a nice plane trip to visit his grandparents. Sooo... he was just saying he'd like to go to the airport.
Sometimes Sam says very logical things that we don't understand.... and we may inadvertently criticize him for being right. Sam often surprises us. We're trying to think about things more when he uses expressions that, on the surface, seem ‘odd'.
Just in...
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