CALLUM'S 12TH BIRTHDAY

Hi all, let's catch up again shall we?

Callum's birthday went well. As you can see from the photo, he got a pretty good haul and that's only half of it!! The bouncy castle turned up and was set up before 11am, so he had a good old bounce before anyone turned up. Unfortunately, for the first time ever on his birthday, it rained! Heavily! Pretty much off and on all day and into the night, so Callum, his best friend Callum and my daughter dived out whenever there was a break to have a go. They even gave up at one point and bounced in the rain!!

Bouncing in the rain

Boys attempting to avoid wet surface

We didn't have a party as such as Callum doesn't really like them. He ends up stressing too much about other people/children and whether or not they are doing what they are supposed to or touching his things. He normally signposts his bedroom with 'No Entry' signs or, if he is allowing people in, he has signs saying that its 'a quiet room and not to get loads of stuff out'. Strange boy sometimes, but then that's his Asperger for you. We just had his Sister, his best friend, Uncle, Aunt and Cousin over. We were supposed to be having a BBQ, but that was rained off too, so was an indoor one instead. All in all though and despite the rain, he had a very good time and his best mate Callum D stayed until 8.30pm. Happy 12th mate!!

The weather didn't improve and we ended up getting a phone call asking whether we would mind keeping the bouncy castle overnight. So luckily Callum managed to have another quiet bounce the following morning before it was taken away. We didn't do any education on the Monday as he wanted to look through all his presents properly and get them all out and play with the games, etc.