Take your Burrito to Work Day!

Last week, between Christmas and New Year's Day, John's schools were closed. Thanks to a lot of people's help, we were able to find babysitting which made it so that we didn't have to take the entire week off. On one of those days, John came to work with me and was then handed off to Joyce's sister at lunchtime.

So, John and I headed to the office. He did very well on the drive in, except that I forgot his sunglasses and we were driving into the sun. This prompted him to demand a correction to the problem, which he did by repeatedly saying "Go away sun." Indeed.

Upon arriving at work, we did the obligatory tour of the place and introduced him to co-workers who hadn't seen him in a while. The verdict was unanimous, that he was cute (this is his one redeeming quality) and that they can't even tell that he's autistic (music to my ears!). However, he wasn't finished yet.

Task number one, once he got done with the tour, was to have Daddy build him a train track. In his office. John especially liked the "cave" which was under the desk. Never mind that it's a bit hard to work with a kid pushing a train under your desk chair and feet. This was only the beginning.

When John plays with the Thomas trains, he likes to watch the Thomas videos, and sure enough, he wanted to watch a video. Unfortunately for Eric, his laptop HAS a DVD player, and thus his work environment was transformed into a theater and train track.

Then it was bathroom time. Taking a child to a bathroom, especially a child who is still working on that whole potty training thing, is a funny experience, or it would be if it were happening to someone else. Add in John's, er, inquisitiveness, and hilarity ensues. Every noise he heard was greeted with an inquiry. "John, that's someone flushing the potty." "John, that's the door closing." "John, never mind what that noise was."

Are you done yet?

Now, going to the potty is cause for celebration these days, and his success was marked with a declaration of "I did it. I went pee-pee in the potty."

Why oh why did the bathroom have to be FULL OF PEOPLE?!?

So Eric did the mature thing, which was to wait in the stall with John until everyone left. John was helpful, asking if we could go back and play with trains, followed by "What are we waiting for?"


John's become very inquisitive of late. This is a good thing, by and large. There was a time where we never thought he'd notice enough of the world outside his head to ask those sorts of questions. Now our frustration is that they are unceasing. Truth be told, it's a refreshing problem to have.