Tommy was edgy all day to day. There is only so much off not being the center of attention that Tommy can handle. These cookie booth sales are going to be hard on him. My leaving town for several days is going to be an additional challenge. Relatively speaking, he did wonderfully today. He wasn’t being entertained. He was in a noisy public environment. He was being asked to labor. He was doing an abnormally large amount of walking for other people’s sakes. He had no blow outs. He was calm. He entertained himself. His worst behavior today was that he could not slow down his talking nor could he be quiet. The only quiet from Tommy today was when he was sent away and even then he’d find someone to talk to. At the bookstore, he was challenged with “Find Hank the Cowdog” books so he found an employee. Worked the poor guy hard; the employee finally gave up (I helped a little there).
After cookie sales, an exhausted group of people returned home to catchup on electronic additions, tally up sales and make sure everything was accounted for, and rest. Tommy wanted nothing other than to immediately go to Barnes & Nobel and buy The Monster Manual. We finally talked him out of that and convinced him to bath all in the same argument. His grandfather and uncle showed up shortly thereafter for a brief visit and dinner. Tommy was again on exceptional behavior.
He got the pleasure of staying with his grandfather tonight on the promise that he would help his uncle move boxes tomorrow.
