WHAT.A.DAY!!! I'm completely exhausted, BUT I have to get this post up tonight. We left our house this morning at 10:15....did a quick run to Target, then on to Josh's gymnastics class, got back in the car, drove to Castle Rock and picked up Starbucks, then on to Denver and the Paramount Theater to watch Imagination Movers in concert with Choo Choo Soul as their opening act! RIDICULOUS!!! It was so fun to be downtown Denver again....I haven't been there since we moved and I forgot how much fun 16th Street Mall is and also walking around the Pavilion shopping area.
Anyways, the kids didn't really take interest in that. Although we did see a horse drawn carriage with green feathers everywhere on it(St. Patrick's Day). Also, in one of the restaurants on the corner by the Paramount there were bagpipe players playing very loudly. I had to basically pull Josh away from watching them so we wouldn't be late for the real concert!
I wasn't sure what to expect from the kids. I know from previous experiences with Josh and concerts that sitting too close doesn't work at all. He likes to sit far back so he can take it all in....almost like he is watching it on t.v.! Needless to say, we picked up our tickets at will call, went inside, down the aisle, and our seats were right smack in the middle and all the way down in the second row! I mean, seriously?!?! It was crazy....and right when we sat down I knew it wouldn't last long. This is how they had to look at the stage:
I believe we lasted maybe 10 minutes sitting in those seats! Josh leaned over to me and told me that he wanted to go watch it way in the back. So...away we went. Thankfully everyone in the row was standing up so we weren't too annoying leaving the row again! But, as we were walking back up the aisle I had a quick thought. I realized how truly thankful I am as a parent...well, for so many reasons, but what stuck out to me was when everything started with Josh(3 years ago!!)...when we finally got an evaluation through the state and started Early Intervention in Illinois...I had no idea then how incredibly blessed we were to have the therapists we did. I mean, I immediately knew, in my core, that I liked them. That Josh's OTs were special, but I had no clue until later how fortunate we were that they were all about Sensory Processing Disorder. That Josh began the specific type of OT and sensory treatment he needed, immediately! So, if you are ever in southwest Illinois or St. Louis...look up Patricia(Trish) Miller and Karen Wahn of Hand to Hand Pediatric Therapy out of Edwardsville.
Ok...I have definitely digressed, but my point was how thankful I was walking up that aisle because I wasn't annoyed or angry or frustrated that we were not sitting in the seats I had spent money on.
I was SO PROUD of Josh. He first realized that he did not like sitting that close. He didn't have a meltdown. He didn't throw or hit or yell or even ask for anything to eat(he uses oral input to help calm/regulate himself)....instead he suggested a solution! He thought he'd prefer to watch it sitting from the back so he could take it all in! So, I gladly said yes, let's do that! Which leads to another reason I was thankful for my education as a parent. Thankful for Karen, Trish, and the Star Center for educating me on what is best for Josh...because if I was ignorant in what was really going on inside his brain...I probably would have made him sit there, been irritated he wasn't 'appreciating' what I had bought for him, etc etc etc....
Um, the aisle wasn't that long, so I suppose all those thoughts came quite quickly! HA!
But, we happily found the rows in the very back were completely empty...they each found a seat....some snacks....and well...I'll let the pictures and videos tell the story....after they felt secure...got 'in-sync'...they loved it...
So...that was the concert! After this last video that I took, Josh came up and asked if we could go BACK down to our 'first' seats! HA! Loved it!! We didn't because there was only about 5 minutes left and I told him that when the Movers were done singing...we were going to go upstairs and say 'hi' to them! ;-) oh yes, oh yes we did!! That post will be tomorrow...just as many videos and pictures, but I can't keep my eyes open an y lllo ng g er zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........
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