Thankful Tommy held it together
Thursday, November 25th, 2004 Dad reports:
Tommy decided to give us “what for” just before we headed out to the inlaws for Thanksgiving lunch/dinner. He lost it so badly that Mom and I considered leaving him home. Instead we decided to take two cars. Everyone else in the car. Tommy with me in the noisy Jeep. He couls yell at me all he wanted to and it wouldn’t matter. Basically Tommy and I have take to being very silent while we drive around in the Jeep. 1) It’s too noisy to converse, 2) usually if we are in the Jeep together its right around a time he has been yelling and rude to me and or his mother and I don’t feel like talking to him. It has happened enough that he gave up trying to engage me when I won’t speak to him in the Jeep.
By the time we arrived at the inlaws (we stopped at the grocery store and Tommy chose not to come in) Tommy was calm and collected. Seems the transition from our house to anywhere is very upsetting then the transition back to our house is often pretty bad. It seems like Tommy is developing into needing a routine where he doesn’t have to leave the house or if he does its very structured and defined.
He held himself together very well at the inlaws only opting to get aggitated toward the end of the visit.
Happy Thanksgiving!