Keystone cops last night

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I did an interesting thing last night, I showed my son a few videos of him talking 2 years ago, as I just wanted to see how he would react. He sat and watched himself talking with some interest and a wry smile. I wonder what he thought?

Later I gave him a bath and after a while he hopped out and stood in the shower. He's just been getting interested in showers as he's been averse in the past. So I took the shower head down and turned the shower on and crouched outside the box giving him a shower at about chest height. He loved it, and it was interesting to watch him intently examining the individual streams of water, where they land on him, the midstream, then the stream at the source. Then hold his hands up and watch them fill with water. Then turn around and get nice warm water on his back, then back to the front, then put his mouth in the stream and let his mouth fill up and listen to the sounds it makes, then back to examining the streams etc.

Then I shut it down to take him out but he hopped back in the bath and I thought 'OK 5 more minutes, no problem', then he jumped back in the shower so I thought OK, I'll just stick the shower head back in the holder and he can shower himself, so I turn it on forgetting its quite powerful and the fitting is a bit loose, and it immediately spins 45 degrees and starts spraying me with cold water all over my work clothes which I was still wearing, so I slam the door shut, but then I have a problem because its still blasting towards the door, and leaking out the bottom all over the floor, so I think how to get back in without getting even more wet? Meanwhile James is giggling and flapping his hands and jumping up and down inside the shower. So I decide to stand on a stool and reach over the top with my orangutan arms and spin the head back around, instead I manage to drop the shower head which clonks James on his head and hits the floor pointing upwards, showering the roof, toilet and basically the entire bathroom with a powerful stream of water, James is excited and laughing and seems to be loving the whole palaver. I managed to get back in and get the devil-shower under control at that point. By this time I'm soaked, the bathroom is partially awash and my daughter is shouting from another room 'Daaaaaaaddd, I wanna ice cream'!

FFwd some and I have put James to bed and read him a book etc with the help of his sister. I turn out his light (I leave the curtains a little open and the outside light provides dim illumination) and shut the door, but I hear 'stomp stomp stomp, click' so I go in and hes turned the light on. I tell him he is supposed to be going 'night-nights' and turn it off and put him back to bed. 'Stomp stomp stomp, click' I hear again..so I go in and repeat the exercise.
'Stomp stomp stomp, click' I go in and this time also sing him a song. Shut the door.
'Stomp stomp stomp, click' so this time I just reach in and stealthely flick the light off without going in.
'Stomp stomp stomp, click'
I turn light off
'Stomp stomp stomp, click'
I turn light off
'Stomp stomp stomp, click'

This time I go in and tell him I will take the light bulb (I don't think he knows what that is but whatever) unless he stays down and I point to it and name it extensively. Tuck him in, talk to him, turn out the light.
'Stomp stomp stomp, click'
So I go in and take the light bulb out and show him it and put him back to bed and take the bulb away.

Finally I think..peace and quiet so I go to read my daughter a book and hear 'Stomp stomp stomp, click'
A pause then 'click' then 'click, click' then 'click-click..click-click, click, click, click, click-click clicketty-click, clicka, clicka, click-click (etc)'

Hah hah, got you I think. Quick book read to daughter and 10 minutes later its quiet from the boys room so I sneak in to check on him..and hes sitting on the floor holding the book upside-down and looking at the pages..with the bedroom bathed in light from the obscure and seldom used wall-light that he's turned on..quietly

I hope someone got a chuckle out of reading that!

I so sympathize with the shower ordeal! That had me laughing

Bedtime may be the line in the sand with our Aspies/Auties. My aspie keeps finding new and creative ways to beat the go to bed system.

Your son is more resourceful than you knew

And I hope your business clothes survived the soaking. Got to laugh or you'll lose your sanity!

You write very well, by the way. Loved your description of your son exploring the shower water.

I always found a way to stay up late. This became increasingly difficult when my room was moved right next to the squeaky part of the floor, so every time I got up to sneak out, the floor would squeak, and the cops would arrest me and put me back in bed. The steps were always squeaky, but if I stepped from edge to edge I could usually manage to go down the stairs without too much of a squeak. Of course, downstairs I would have to avoid the squeaky part of the floor, so by the time I reached the basement...FREEDOM!! aw yeah XD because that's where the Nintendo was located.

That's funny. My son doesn't have problems with the shower since we've been washing him that way pretty much since he outgrew the baby tub.

He likes to play with water in the sink when he washes his hands, though.