This year, William is 6 years old, we had a Xmas party at Grandma Tuyet’s house on Xmas day at noon. After lunch, we got to open the gifts as usual. William still does not behave well when receiving the gift: when his name was called, we had to call his name a few times before he’d come up and get his gift. After received it, he’d just throw the gift on the floor without open it. He would not open it if we did not encourage him to do so.
However, his perception of Xmas and Santa Clause has improved. He asked to write a letter to Santa, he asked for a Ginger Bread House, he asked for the Xmas tree and ornaments to decorate, and he’s been sing along the Xmas songs, especially “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!”. He even helped me with gift wrapping: he put the bows on the gifts once I’m done wrapping.
“Can we have a Christmas tree?” – He asked all of sudden while we were watching TV. “Sure, we’ll bring out the tree on weekend!” – I replied. So the weekend came, as promised, we took the artificial tree out from the box. He helped me to plug in the lights. He saw a box of ornaments in the garage and tried to carry the box to the living room where the tree was. I had to tell him, “let Mama do it, it’s too heavy!” . He hung the ornaments up; he even pulled out the little ladder so that he could hang up high on the tree!
One day while we were lying on bed watching TV, he suddenly asked, “Can we make a Ginger Bread house?”. I was so surprised as to how he knew about the Ginger Bread house, must be from school because we never tells him about this. “Sure, mama will get you one!” – I replied. So next day I went to Costco and bought a Ginger Bread house for him. He was so excited; Ms. Marilou, the TasKid ABA therapist, helped him to decorate the house. In fact, he was just watching and eating all the candies while Marilou did all the work :).
I asked what’d he want for xmas. “Lego City” – he said. But when I took him to Walmart to pick, he would not pick any; he asked me to pick it for him. I guess because he does not know what kind of Lego that he wants.
I wrapped his Lego city, he put the blue bow on the box and put it under the Xmas tree. He came in while I was wrapping his toy so I had to tell him Santa already delivered his toy; and that he could not open it until Xmas day. And he respected that: he waited until Xmas Eve; he only opened the box when I told him it’s ok to open now. He and Tim worked together to build the Lego spaceship: the set that I picked for him at Walmart. It was the first time ever that he was sitting on the chair patiently to put together a toy. I was surprised!
It’s the things that he asked to do for Xmas really amazed me that he has grown up and learned a lot about this wonderful holiday. He still believes in Santa, which is a good thing. (I use Santa as a good reinforcement whenever he does not listening).
