It's only a few days until Christmas! December has flown by like it always does. The kids are looking forward to some time off school, as well as all the Christmas excitement of course:-D.
So what happened in December! The first few pictures are of the kids greeting the Santa truck that comes around Redmond every year - so fun for them! I wish Adam would have joined in but alas, he was not interested. Back on the first Friday of the month, Brian and I had the adult Facebook Christmas party at the Wamu Center down at CenturyLink - so much fun! We had a really nice time with friends, enjoying the fun atmosphere, food and drinks. Facebook also had a family party the following Wednesday at the Zoo. It was an interesting evening. I may have mentioned previously that Adam absolutely refuses to wear a coat at any time, except for in the morning when he gets on the bus. For whatever reason, he has deemed that to be an acceptable time to don a coat, any coat at all. Anyway, this party was outdoors (zoo lights on a December night), it was forecasted to rain, and it was not warm, so we knew he would be uncomfortable without a coat. We told him before we left that he would wear a coat, and while he was not at all happy about it, we eventually convinced him to put the coat on and get in the van. Thinking we had scored some kind of big victory, we drove to the zoo with high hopes of a successful evening without a cold and wet Adam.
Our pleasant feelings were short-lived. We got there and as soon as we got out of the van, he tried to unzip his coat. How odd, he agreed to put it on while in the warmth of the van, then as soon as we get outside he wants to take it off?? We tried so hard to get him to keep it on, but not wanting to make a big scene in the middle of the Facebook party won out and he took it off before we were even through the front gates. At this point, it was not raining so he happily skipped along looking at the lights with the other kids. I am thinking, maybe this won't be such a disaster after all - he does run very warm, so as long as it doesn't rain, this might just be okay! Of course it started raining about 10 minutes later. We had gotten our food and were eating in a heated shelter outside, so still okay, but we couldn't sit in there forever. We started walking towards the carousel and Adam starts losing his mind. He's getting wet and he doesn't like to be wet - who does! He starts yelling about an umbrella, we know that sometimes when it's raining at recess he stands under his teacher's umbrella. I had left my umbrella in the van because it was not raining when we got there, and honestly I just didn't think about it. We had met up with Andy and Kristy mid-meltdown, and thankfully Kristy pointed out that we were standing right in front of an information desk that had umbrellas to lend out. This seemed to help him out a lot. We walked to the carousel shelter where there was a warm place for him to stand and watch the other kids on the carousel for a long time, and he was happy as can be. We hung out there for quite a while, but Lynsey was not about to leave the zoo without seeing some animals, so we went to watch this presentation on hawks. Adam was fine for the first while, but he started to get cold and was making noise about going home. Heaven forbid we make Lynsey leave before the presentation was over, so Brian lifted Adam up and took him out of the presentation yelling at the top of his lungs. Great times! He took him to the van where he waited fairly patiently for the rest of us to join them. He was apparently shivering by the time they got to the van. Not once would he even consider putting his coat on. #autismproblems
The rest of the month has been filled with getting ready for Christmas, watching hockey and football (how about those Oilers!), and making some progress on our reno. The drywall started this week and they might even be done today! They will probably have to come do some touchups tomorrow, but he said definitely done by Christmas. We got a tile guy out to measure, still waiting for his quote, but hopefully we can get tile done not too long after the new year. Then it's just cabinets left for really big things; bathroom fixtures, lights, and the entryway cubbies Brian can do on his own. So exciting! I cannot wait, having the walls and tile in will be huge milestones.
What else has been happening . . . I saw the Lion King musical at the Paramount Theater this past Friday, so good! Brian and Lynsey are going to see it tomorrow, I am pretty sure Lynsey will love it:-). I'm kind of glad Nathan swore up and down he didn't want to go when we bought the tickets, I think he would have enjoyed it for a little while but then gotten bored, he doesn't have the attention span for a 2.5 hour show just yet. This will be our first Christmas Day at home since 2013, looking forward to a very low-key Christmas! Trip to Alberta coming up on the 29th, looking forward to that as well. Merry Christmas!
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