Like many kids on the spectrum Cotton has sleep issues. No matter what we do, he is awake from 3am to 5am. He then returns to sleep, just in time to be super grumpy for school. During this time we have two options, 1.Let him rummage around in his room until he goes back to sleep (this can be noisy) or 2. Put him in bed with us and let him kick and flip around until he falls asleep again. I am not happy with either of these options, but I don't think this will change any time soon.
Anyway, we had a bit of a dysregulated day today. Grandpa came up to help us move all our junk out of our house and into a storage shed so we can attempt to sell our house. So Cotton was a little off. So we sat on our bums and bumped down the stairs, referencing me for when to go next, and adding a little variation, by moving up a step instead of down.
One really exciting thing that happened today, we were playing a tickle game (just emotion sharing), and Cotton actually tickled me back! He was totally feeding off my reaction, it was just pure fun. Those are the moments that make up for the 3am wake up call.
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