Joy In Autism

Cooper did a cool thing tonight.  He called us into the living room to watch a puppet show.  He has done them before but has always re-enacted something from a cartoon or story that we’ve read.  In his puppet show tonight it appears that he made up the plot himself.  It was great.  He had a sign up for the title “Merry Christmas” and another sign at the end that said “The End”.  The plot was about a penguin and a snowman that had a pet dog named Mopie.  They asked Mopie to watch their hamburger while they went away.  Mopie sat watching the burger very nicely, then a dinosaur came along and ate it.  When the other guys came back they blamed Mopie for eating the hamburger.  While Mopie shook his head “No” the dinosaur came back and picked up the penguin and the snowman in his big dinosaur mouth to carry them away.  Mopie fought the dinosaur and won.  The penguin and snowman apologized and said “Good Mopie.”  That was it!  I was so proud of him.

Then of course Bennie wanted to do one too.  Cooper watched Ben’s very nicely then said “Bravo Ben.  Good Job!”  It was sweet.  Ben had no plot other than the dinosaur to be eating all of the other puppets.  Funny dude.

Peace.