Kiss My Knits!

I may have mentioned that a couple of weeks ago, Emily tried out for her school talent show. Her talent? Telling jokes. Pretty big for an kid with autism who doesn’t like to make eye contact and routinely tells us that she just doesn’t want to talk right now.

Well, today was the show! I asked Emily how she felt onstage, and she told me, “I felt so, so, so, so, excited!”

Em’s teacher said that onstage, she was very confident and expressive, “like she is when she’s reading sometimes, with the eyebrows and everything” and was loud and clear. (Em does have a very expressive voice when she reads, giving things a lot of appropriate and sometimes dramatic inflection.) Her teacher says that Em got good laughs from the kids.

I asked Emily to tell me a joke that she told at the talent show: “What goes ‘ha ha ha plop plop?’ An audience laughing their heads off!”

Then when they got back to the class, she spontaneously started leading the class in song and dance. It was a song about “thumbs up, thumbs down” that she learned in school. You know, for a kid with Emily’s challenges, she really has shown an affinity for showbiz. She is, at her request, having a week of drama camp this summer.

My baby was born to be a star!

WAY too much to do today, and too little time to do it. So in lieu of a long post about my crappy time with teacher gifts this year, we have one piece of art and one cool link.

“Mom, Dad, the burglar alarm is ringing. A burglar.”

We do not own a burglar alarm, but Emily loves watching burglars in the Sims 2. We have a cheat that permits her to send a burglar to a house, and then a police officer comes, and they get in a cartoon-style fight with a cloud of smoke with the burglar crawling out and being dragged back in, etc. That’s where this drawing comes from, not from any anxiety about our house getting broken in to.

What I love about this picture: she’s facing away, looking at the alarm, and you can see the line across the back of her head representing her hair. It looks like she’s wearing earrings – you can see the backs.

Note the concentric rings coming from the alarm representing noise. All that time in the comic book shop is clearly paying off!

And now, a link that really makes me smile: sneaky, sneaky dolphins.

Have a good one! I gotta get cat food before the cat eats me!