Happy 9th Birthday Grant!

We celebrated Grant's (my nephew & the kids' cousin) 9th birthday on Sunday night. We had a great time and Grant enjoyed celebrating with his friend from his cab to school, Daniel. It was so nice to see Grant being social and interactive even thou he ran to his room after everyone sang Happy Birthday. Grant is high-functioning autistic and simple things to some are a challenge to Grant. However, Grant is doing well, and the fact that he had a friend he made at school at his party was wonderful. It struck me as so funny when Grant asked to hold Annelise and to show her to Daniel's brother and he was asking him if he thought she was cute? However, then out of the blue Grant says "I am allergic to cats!" I guess Annelise reminded him of a cat or something, but it cracked me up!
Daniel has become a good friend to Grant. They ride in the cab together and Daniel is in the 7th grade. They both have an interest in DS Nintendo Games and Poke-mon. Grant has come a long way in the past year. I was amazed the other night when he was in his room with the door closed and when I knocked he said "come in". It was a moment when you think wow, that wouldn't have happened before. Anyways, it was a fun night of birthday wishes!