Giggles with WINK and SMILE

Sometimes having two boys on the spectrum just makes for a more colorful life.  Take these two recent giggle moments as proof:

After returning home from speech therapy, SMILE asked if he could have a lollipop.   I said he could and he quickly sat down and started in on unwrapping his treat. A few moments later, SMILE's mouth was smeared purple as he joyfully licked his way to a sugar Nirvana.  I leaned over the back of the couch.
        "Can I have a lick?"  (Now, kudos to you if you can spot the mistake I made because I sure didn't).
       "Sure," he said.  My little SMILE then leaned over, cupped my chin with his sticky hand, and licked my    cheek from chin to eyebrow.  CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR...


I sat with WINK last night as he read a story from of his textbook.  It was about a caterpillar and a duckling. Now, I know WINK has some reading comprehension problems, so I like to ask him questions after each paragraph to make sure he is keeping track of the events, characters, etc.   During one of these breaks, after the caterpillar climbs up to a high leaf and doesn't come down for weeks, I asked WINK why he thinks the caterpillar did that.  He said it was going to build a cocoon.
       "Oh, very good.  So, you think Farfanella (or whatever the name was) is going to turn into a butterfly?" I asked.
        "Well, of course," WINK said in a tone that raises many questions about my intelligence,  "it's a caterpillar.  What else is it supposed to turn into?"

Oh.