Grace watched a movie for the first time today, and the movie was…..wait for it….drum roll…..Beauty and the Beast! It was interesting to be with her and help her process the different parts of the movie. The tense parts, or parts with strong emotions affect her. It is hard to describe how exactly – it is not quite fear (fortunately there is nothing really scary in the movie), but it did impact her enough that she didn’t want to carry on watching after a break. I did want her to finish though so that she could get to the end and see how everything resolves. We did finish, and we spoke a lot about what was happening as things moved along, and in the end she really liked the end when everyone was happy. And then the processing and questions started, but it has been good fun answering them.

The one thing that I really liked was when she asked me about Biltong during the break, when she was actually asking about Gaston.

This special treat has only happened three times in Grace’s life, once from Keren, once from Gogo and today for the first time, a special treat from mom….the train actually goes if you put money in it…