Ball pit

There is a ball pit in Case's special needs class. It is a great place to help support some of the kids with very poor muscle tone, and the autism kids find it soothing.
When we leave his mainstream class in the morning Case frequently dives in to relax a bit and soothe before he starts speech. This makes me incredibly jealous. I could use a few minutes in the ball pit after I've spent the morning as Case's assistant/tutor. More than once I've come home from school debating ordering a couple thousand balls and a giant bin.

Mardi Gras

Case and I went to the Millbrook Mardi Gras parade just to see the firetrucks, and we were not disappointed.
I think all the local trucks were there to open the parade, sirens screaming. Case was delighted. They threw candy out the open back door of ambulances. Good thing nothing caught on fire Saturday.This was my favorite part of the whole parade.There were some surprise bonuses that Case loved too. We saw some horses, which seemed good natured considering the noise and crowds.

Tubas! (Really, Case was ecstatic to see the tubas.)

And of course no Mardi Gras parade is complete without big creepy paper mache heads. These small local celebrations seem to me 100 times more fun than a big crowded parade in a city (but that's me). I think we even had more fun at this one that we did with the Navarre Krewe. Let the good times roll!