Sunday, January 18, 2015

Big Day with Autism

So today is Doodle's birthday. The first thing I did after I finally woke up was to do her Birthday photo's. She's pretty fast so it's no surprise that half of the photo's that I took were a blur. After that I had her change and took her to Texas Road House for lunch. Her's was free because she got A-B honor roll at school. Towards the end of the meal I ordered her the Big Ol' Brownie. The wait staff came clapping to the table with a saddle on a saw horse. She got to sit on that for a bit. They wished her a happy birthday and yelled out YEEE HAW!!! And she loved that. Yelled out YEEE HAW herself!

After that we drove on to the beach to visit the Sea Lab. She loves fish, it's one of her obsessions. So it's no surprise that she enjoyed petting the shark and the sting rays. Mainly playing in the water and touching the algae. She got to see snakes that are local to our water areas. The Sea Lab was more less a you can touch a lot of things except some of the fish and turtles.

One of the things that impressed her was driving the aquatic sub. The gift shop was her favorite place in the entire Sea Lab. Once we left there we headed straight to the beach to enjoy the surf and the waves. I took lots of photo's of her, which I will not be posting on here yet. Once we left the beach we headed back to the Sea Lab. Doodle played on their little play ground. We went back to see the shark and sting rays and then back inside. She played for a good 30 minutes. Saw more exhibits that we didn't see before. Got to pet even more animals including an octopus. And then back to the gift shop for more things.

After we left there she looked at the water through her new binoculars. She had a fantastic time and that's all I could ever really hope for on her birthday. Once we got back home we had dinner, cake and opened gifts. It was a wonderful day. Sunny, warm and so wonderful!

I'm tired and ready for bed so I will see you guys tomorrow. Have a fantastic day!

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