My son's birthday party was a success!

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Age: 54
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11 May 2010, 8:07 pm

HI.

I posted a week or so ago regarding my son's 5th birthday party.

I have never hosted a children's birthday party before (except for just simple bbq for my parents and sister and her family).

I am happy to say that it was successful.

We started off with fine motor stuff - construction paper, glue, glitter, painting.

I had another table with play doh.

The only mishap was when a 4 year old NT child threw some play doh at my son. I know that he didn't intend it to be a hard throw and hurt - but it smacked my kid hard on the face. The mother to the child is fantastic and she intervened beautifully. I was sad that my son felt bad, but understand that 4 year olds can be like that sometimes. I was actually pleased that my son articulated, "he was not suppose to do that." We talked about it and my son forgave the other child and enjoyed the rest of the party.

The only other thing to watch was for my son leaving the room and going to the adjoining playground area (the party was in my housing complex's community room). This was okay - because we just moved the party outside and joined him! :lol:

I did "pin the arm on the octopus" and the kids could choose to be blindfolded or not. My son definately will not wear a blindfold.

We also had the "fishing game." I made paper fish out of construction paper and pasted a nickel as the "eye". I used a small toy fishing rod with a magnet on the end and the kids could "fish" and catch a fish. After they caught their fish - I gave them stickers and they could keep their nickel fish.

I absolutely think that hiring my son's ABI worker to help at the party was a good decision. She helped by picking up the cake from the supermarket (I had pre-paid), she helped with the kids during the crafts and games and she helped facilitate communication with my son and another autistic boy and the other younger children. She even helped me clean up afterwords all the while doing speech skill building with my son!

All in all things went well.

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11 May 2010, 8:09 pm

That's great!! I'm so glad your son's party went off so well!

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