A belated Christmas extravaganza..you'll laugh your santa beard right off!

First, in a set of pictures only a SPD mother can love, I present to you the Santa picture. Everything was going great until the lady behind the camera decided she needed to ring a set of jingle bells very loudly at my auditory-hypersensitive child. He was shouting "no" at the camera lady. I explained he had sensory issues and asked her to stop, but by then it was too late. I still see it as hilarious. The people gave us the copy for free because they said "they'd never had a child react like that before." Santa picture people, meet Jack:

The only "calmer" picture we could get:

The boys also helped me make cookies a few days before Christmas. Jack was really into it, but Summy freaked out with the dough. He was able to cut one with a cookie cutter, as long as he didn't have to touch it, and after a brief "hug" session and some time in his tension vest, was able to come back and put sprinkles on a cookie or two. Jack decided to sample cookie at whim which cracked me up.

my favorite cookie. Jack dumped an entire container of star sprinkles on it:



Some Christmas morning pics. Santa's big gift was a "pwano"

The boys with their great grandfather:

Last, as we were sitting in church on Christmas Eve, Summy really honed in on the words being said. During one prayer they said the word "humanity." Summy looked at me and said "Yeah, Manatees! Like at the zoo!"

Who knew Jesus had manatees attending to him in the manger?