Off with his feet!

We had a bit of a stressful night last night. Little Bug had several meltdowns- which are specifically different from a temper tantrum in that he *can't* stop them. There isn't any distracting him from them and they can take an incredibly long time to go away. This is one of things that we are going to be working on with his therapists.

The huge problem of the night last night was his pajamas. We have only one car and that means that at 3:45 AM every morning I work, DN and Little Bug have to take me to work. So, I thought, lets make things easier on everyone and get him some footy pajamas. WRONG! He hardly slept last night because of the feet on his pajamas. He continuously woke up and would put his feet in the air and cry. Obviously, this is a *huge* sensory issue.

This means that his pajamas will be losing their feet. Hopefully, once the feet are removed things will go smoother.

Another issue Little Bug has is repetitive behaviour. It is compulsive and he cannot control it and should you interrupt the cycle, there will be hell to pay. However, there comes a line at when to let the behaviour continue and when to intervene. Last night, Little Bug was smashing his fingers repetitively in a DVD case- over and over and over again, taking turns on each hand. It was leaving red marks and no amount of saying "no!" or "owie!" would get through to him. So I took the DVD case away. He cried himself to sleep because he couldn't smash his fingers. It made my heart ache and all I could do was hold him and cry too.

There are times when I feel like what we do to shelter him- like not letting him smash his fingers or any other kind of self injuring- hurts him a lot more than the action. But there is a fine line as to when to intervene and when not to, I just don't think we have it figured out yet. I hope he knows that while we don't understand all his choices and he doesn't understand all of ours, all of our actions are done out of love for him.