OH MY! I couldn’t find the time to do the blog last week because I was celebrating ”MOTHER’S DAY”. Focusing on the blog, I wanted this edition to be about how Pablo reacts in the car and public places ETC…The car is what really worries me because mostly, OOPS! made a mistake, I mean, EVERY time that Pablo finally notices that we are going to the car he spirals out of control.
The most challenging time is when he wakes from a nap while in the car. He always starts crying and pulling my lovely hair and kicking me and only me because I am the only other person who sits with him in the back seat… I never get used to sitting at the window seat where he won’t be able to hit me. As any other normal person, I suddenly feel pain and get angry for it, but I honestly think that he cries, kicks, and pulls my beautiful hair because he doesn’t know how to express what he wants to say in any other way. The solution will come when he learns to communicate better with his PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System). I feel like he doesn’t do it on purpose, but because he must be miserable with not having the ability to say what he feels. I am mom’s little assistant in the car because I have to pass her his juices, toys, shoes, socks, and snacks…basically everything. I don’t mind helping because I know it’s good for my little brother.
Now, I know we have been talking a lot about how Pablo reacts in the car but I want to share about him reacting in public places so get ready to read a long story… It all starts at when we go to a restaurant and Pablo begs for the phone. In my early childhood we would go to a bunch of restaurants and saw little girls watching Dora on a DVD player and asked my mom if I could watch Dora on my mom’s phone but she said that I have to share with family and not just ignore them when they’re talking to me. Now it turns out that since Pablo can’t communicate, Pablo asks for the phone every time we go out to dinner and I get utterly mad when she gives it to him… I asked her once: “Hey, didn’t you say you didn’t want to give the phone to your children in restaurants, HUH!!!!!!!!!?”J and she told me that it’s a different subject. I totally understood what she was saying … and I will never forget the time when she told me that they were having Pablo and I still can’t believe that I am a big sister : ) : ) : )
