This Week's Super Moments

I keep thinking that I haven't been writing on this blog enough, but when I think about it I realize that is actually a good thing because it means I am not needing to vent. LOL! So if all I write for a while is Super Moment posts then that is fine by me.

I belong to a Facebook group for parents of special needs children and Tuesdays there is always a place to post the triumphs for the week. I always laugh when I read some of the posts on there because to a parent without a special needs child some of the things that are posted can seem like such a small, trivial event. However, I laugh because I can totally relate. That's kind of what these posts are about. The people who read this blog (and I think there are like five) may not understand why the things I post are important, but it's important to me to acknowledge what others may view as small, because to us they are big.

1) Zoey ate a hamburger. We were out to dinner with Scott's dad for our birthdays and Zoey insisted that she get a hamburger for dinner. This is not something that she normally eats and will actively refuse when we try to get her to eat it. So we tried to steer her towards her normal of grilled cheese or pizza (mainly to avoid a fit when the waitress brought the food and Zoey realized it wasn't grilled cheese or pizza). However, she wanted a hamburger, so we let her order it. when it came she didn't throw a fit, but she did her normal dissection and just ate the bun and left the burger sitting there. However, at the end of the meal, she grabbed her hamburger, without any prompting from us, and took a bite. She said "yummy" and then proceeded to eat the rest of it (it was slider sized). Now do I feel comfortable adding hamburger into her repertoire of foods she will eat? No! But for that one night she was willing to step outside her box and try something new.

2) The other day when I picked Zoey up from daycare, she was telling me about her name on the craft she did and the letters in her name. So I asked her how she spells her name and she was able to tell me. At first I thought it was just that she was reading them off of her paper, but I asked her later when she didn't have anything to look at and she was still able to tell me the letters in her name. Now we just need to add the last name in there. (I'm always pushing for the next thing). 

She never cooperates when I try to video things, so this is the best I got

3) We took a trip to King's Island on Sunday and despite the fact that Zoey got maybe 5 hours of sleep the night before, she was amazing. She didn't have any meltdowns or even really cry. She was good when we told her we were moving to a different ride and when we were ready to leave the park.

 Zoey on the Viking Fury Ride