We began the day today by playing a limited over game of cricket in the playroom here! There is something magical about this place. Without me even trying, he was "specially" flexible today, e.g.
1. He ALWAYS pretends to be the Indian cricket team, but today he picked a multi-national team headed by Ricky Ponting of Australia, and picked his other players as Gautam Gambhir of India, Alistar Cook of England, Ajantha Mendis of Sri Lanka. He then asked "and who is someone who plays for Pakistan" and then chose his fifth player to be Shahid Afridi. By the way, he also allowed playing with only 5 players and only for 5 limited overs each, so that we could then go out for lunch. (He always plays with 10 players).
2. He allowed me to pick a team of his own loving Son Rise friends to be in the "other" team: Michael, Adin, Julia, Sarah.... and then he proposed... Mom! Woo-hoo! Who knew he could come up with something like this on the spur of the moment?
3. He played with a ball different than he is used to. A ball that moved a lot faster.
4. After receiving the "dinasaur" in the playroom as his trophy for beating me, he gave me a musical instrument in the playroom as my runners up prize. We took some pictures, and he told us who (all three of us) he wanted in the picture!
5. He ASKED to wear a hat when I (pretending to be Manju) put on a hat and a jacket. He would wear no hat, no matter what, until now, while playing cricket.
And we totally believe this beautiful change in him is only the beginning!
No comments:
Post a Comment