Soft Play Prisoners!

Boy Wonder didn't wake until 10.15am which allowed him to catch up on some much needed sleep. He got up, had a shower and got ready for dance. He was very high on waking and difficult to engage but eventually we got there.

Whilst at dance, Cat Girl and I did the food shopping before collecting Boy Wonder to come home. We had some lunch and then Super Gran took them to a soft play so I could write an AGM report needed for next week. I managed to get half of it done so was quite impressed!

When they returned from soft play, Super Gran reported that Boy Wonder had been involved in a bit of a situation with a couple of girls. He had apparently threatened to kick them in the head and they had told their mum. However Boy Wonder said sorry when asked so it ended swiftly. Call me a synic  but I wasn't totally convinced that, that was the whole story and neither was Super Gran really. I spoke with Boy Wonder a bit later about it and he told me that he had trapped the girl in the big balls ( big inflatable yoga balls) as she was in his space, so he took her prisoner. He did this to the other girl too. They got upset so he let them go and one girl kicked him in the leg. He responded by saying that he would kick then in the head so they ran off and told their mum. I asked Boy Wonder if he knew what he did was wrong and he said yes because they got upset. I asked him if he knew it was wrong before he did it and he said no, he was just getting them out of his way. I suppose we should be grateful that he responded to their upset at least!

On return home Boy Wonder played on Mine Craft for a while, had tea and then we went off to a family quiz night at the new big kids school. They have built in an Autism Resource Centre here so I was very keen to have a look. Boy Wonder seemed to be struggling more and more to process as the day went on, repeatedly asking questions and clarifying things.

We picked up Super Gran and arrived at the school for around 7pm, equipped with electronic games for Boy Wonder, Cat Girl and their friends also brought theirs. We asked to look at the autism resource centre (ARC) and the Head took us round. Boy Wonder liked the work stations particularly. It was a good space but out of a school of potentially 800 children there are 15 spaces for children with autistic spectrum conditions, a little optimistic, however they do have 'dip in, dip out' options and additional spaces for special needs in general so it may work. We then joined the tour of the school and Boy Wonder became quickly fasinated by the theatre and moveable stage and asked a lot of questions.  He also couldn't work out why there was no play equipment!

We started the quiz which was in several different parts and lasted for nearly three hours. The children did well to behave for that long and did partake in the student 's quiz and came second! We came about tenth but enjoyed it so we were happy! Boy Wonder became unsettled at times bit the quiz master seemed to unwittingly distract him by asking him to go little jobs for him which helped.

We arrived home at 11.30pm with the intention of going straight to bed. Super Man, who had been out for the day with friends was home before us and was watching Pirates of  The Carribean so Boy Wonder chose to watch this with him. Boy Wonder kept asking Super Man why he was speaking funny? Super Man was a little tipsy!

Everyone finally settled just after midnight and is still sleeping now. I think I will take the opportunity to continue with my AGM report !!